Training & Development
Discover opportunities for professional training to help grow and develop your creative practice.
Our Welcome To Wandsworth Creative Sessions are a series of free training seminars for Wandsworth creatives as part of the London Borough of Culture programme.
Anti-Exploitation Academy
Is your arts organisation relying on unpaid labour? This on-demand online course is designed to help the cultural sector unlearn harmful practices and move toward fairer, more accountable ways of working. Find out more
Making Every Contact Count
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) training is a series of free online courses to help you develop the skills needed to:
- Identify people who could benefit from additional support
- Raise the issue with them through a conversation
- Refer or signpost to the appropriate service(s)
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Training
- Wandsworth Lifelong Learning: Understanding Autism - Find out more
- Writerz and Scribez: Advancing Anti-Racism in Creative Health - Find out more or email: info@writerznscribez.com
Health and Wellbeing Training
- Mental Health First Aid 2-day training – 7/14 Jan 26 – Find out more
- Wandsworth Lifelong Learning: Mindful Me – an introduction to Mindfulness – Find out more
- Safeguarding – Wandsworth Safeguarding Children Partnership is offering e-learning courses, including on topics like sexual abuse, emotional abuse, FGM, neglect and modern slavery – Find out more
- Information on safeguarding vulnerable adults can be found here.
Practical Skills Courses
These courses take place at the Gwynneth Morgan Centre - Find out more here
- Art for Wellbeing - 17 Dec - This course aims to help you to focus on an art-based activity and provide an alternative way to express your emotions and reflect on the challenges that you face.
- How to Cook on a Budget - Dates TBA - Will include meal planning, cooking for different dietaries needs, and how to reduce food waste.
- Everyday Sustainability Crafts - Dates TBA - Will teach learners how to craftwork in a sustainable manner.
- An Introduction to Sewing, Mending and Creating - Dates TBA - This course will guide you through the essential skills needed to begin your sewing journey and bring your creativity to life.
Free Re:Create Business Skills E-learning
Are you a Wandsworth-based creative or cultural businesses? Why not try out this free business skills e-learning course worth £186!
The four modules cover Marketing and E-Commerce, Funding, Business Resilience, and Team Building. This course will equip you with key skills and knowledge to steer your organisation forward, sustainably, into the future.
Could you become a Community Health and Wellbeing Champion?
Community Health Champions are residents in Wandsworth who help keep people aware, informed, and up to date with the information they need to stay safe and healthy.
You do not need any previous experience of volunteering or health work as you will be given everything you need to carry out your role effectively by us, our Public Health team, and the NHS. There is a dedicated Community Health Champion Coordinator who manages both networks, and all volunteers will have access to a series of e-learning training courses, helping to support you to promote positive conversations about health and wellbeing.