Multiply your confidence with everyday maths
Find a Multiply maths skills course
Do you find the thought of maths daunting? Although it can sometimes feel challenging, we all use numbers every day – at work, at home and when we’re out.
These workshops and online courses are free for learners aged 19+ subject to meeting funding criteria.
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About Multiply
Multiply is a government-funded programme helping adults to build confidence with everyday numeracy.
Delivered in collaboration with Bedford Borough Council and our partner training providers, Bedfordshire Employment and Skills Academy has received funding to deliver free workshops which will help you feel more confident with the maths you come across in your daily life.
Multiply can support you to:
- confidently use maths skills at work and home
- achieve an accredited maths qualification
- unlock new career and learning opportunities
- build confidence managing your money
- shop for less and learn to cook around your lifestyle
- support your children with maths homework
Choose from:
- introductory workshops to build confidence with first steps towards a maths qualification
- money skills workshops to support you with managing your finances and making your money go further
- creative skills workshops to develop confidence with numbers through crafts and games
- short online courses to practise skills to support you with day-to-day tasks whenever suits you
There are vouchers for completing learning available, including supermarket vouchers and Amazon vouchers. You can access this free suite of skills workshops, courses and online modules if you’re an adult aged 19 years and over in Central Bedfordshire and Bedford Borough.
Multiply workshops are delivered in community venues across Central Bedfordshire and Bedford Borough, as well as virtually on Microsoft Teams.
There is also a range of independent online courses so you can learn at your own pace at a time that suits you.
If you already feel quite confident with numeracy, you may want to see our range of higher level maths courses and qualifications.
Upcoming courses
This timetable shows upcoming Multiply skills workshops in alphabetical order of course title. Select ‘Next page’ under the timetable to find a course near you.
| Title | Time |
|---|---|
| Become a savvy shopper (Park Road, Houghton Regis - February/March 2025) | 10am to midday |
| Borrowing and Debt (Park Road, Houghton Regis - 28 January 2025) | 10am to midday |
| Budgeting and Saving (Library, Leighton Buzzard - 21 January 2025) | 10am to midday |
| Budgeting and Saving (Park Road, Houghton Regis - 21 January 2025) | 10am to midday |
| Cost of Living Support ( Library, Leighton Buzzard - 14 January 2025) | 10am to midday |
| Cost of Living Support (Park Road, Houghton Regis - 14 January 2025) | 10am to midday |
| Create and Paint (Manchester Place, Dunstable - March 2025) | 1pm to 3pm |
| Create and Paint (Park Road - Houghton Regis - March 2025) | 10am to midday and 1pm to 3pm |
| Festive Seasonal Shapes Crafts (Hawkins Rd, Bedford - 18 December 2024) | 09:45am to 11:45am |
| Making a Macrame Knot Keyring (Park Road, Houghton Regis - 26 November 2024) | 10:00 to midday |
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Feedback from learners
Multiply has helped me to save money and has helped me to find the right support out there.
I took the cost of living workshop...I’ve learnt what I can apply for to save money. E.g. bus pass, £650 cost of living payment.
Multiply helped me apply for a British Gas Family Fund of up to £1,500.
I learnt how to shop for less and cook from fresh.
I learnt how to prep and batch cook to save time and make cooking fit into my lifestyle.