Family and community learning

Learn together as a family
- Gain skills to help support your children
- Find out how children learn
- Have fun while you learn as a family
Find out more about learning together
Free workshops and courses for families and family adults
- Build new skills and knowledge while supporting your child with fun activities
- Find out how children learn and how to support them
- Brush up your literacy, numeracy and IT so you have the skills you need to support your child's learning
Skills and activities we cover
- Keeping up with the children literacy, numeracy and ICT
- Helping children with reading and maths
- Learning together (early years) story and number sacks
- Learning together (early years) play and language
- Family sewing, art and craft, pottery and scrapbooking
- Family money matters
Wider Family Learning (WFL)
These programmes aim to:
- Encourage parents/carers and their children to learn together
- Develop the skills or knowledge of the adults and children
- Help parents/carers to be more active in the support of their children’s interests, learning and development
Family Literacy, Language and Numeracy (FLLN)
These programmes aim to:
- Improve the literacy, language and numeracy skills of parents/carers
- Improve parents’/carers’ ability to help their children learn
- Improve children’s acquisition of literacy, language and numeracy
Contact family and community learning
Do you work with or support families that would benefit from our workshops and courses?
Are you a family adult interested in finding out about Family Learning course for your community?
Contact the Family Learning Team on 0300 300 6492 or email Family and Community Learning
Did you know you might be eligible to enrol on our courses for FREE click on the link fees and financial help for details.
You can also...
Do it online
- Bedfordshire Adult Skills & Community Learning Moodle

- Find a course online
- Adult education courses: register today for email updates

Visit other useful sites*
Download more information
Free Family Fun Day (PDF 127KB)
Enrolment form 2011-12 North (PDF 325KB)
Enrolment Form 2011-12 South (PDF 243KB)
Spring Summer Courses 2012 (PDF 282KB)
Contact us
- 0808 100 3140
- adult.learning@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk
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