Previous Courses

In its lifetime, HYCC has run many, many courses ranging from cake decorating to customer service, balloon art to British Sign Language. Over the years, we have seen organisations which deliver some of the courses come and go as their priorities change or, in some cases, as the organisations themselves cease to exist. Tutors move on to pastures new and courses which proved highly popular in the past fail to attract any interest at all…there are many reasons why courses end, never to be seen again. Sometimes, however, they can be resurrected in a sparkling new form — so if you see something here that interests you, tell us and we'll see if we can find a way to run it again.

This is not a complete list of courses we have run in the past (we'd be here all day!), but will certainly give a flavour of the type and level of topics we have offered before.

Accredited courses – full year

These were fee-based, although concessions for low income learners were available.

• City & Guilds I.T.C.
• Levels 1 & 2 British Sign Language
• Certificate in Playwork
• Basic Literacy
• Basic Numeracy

Accredited courses – short courses

Some were fee-based with concessions, others were free to learners but paid for through specific grants.

• Customer Service (10 weeks)
• Retail (10 weeks)
• English for Speakers of Other Languages (8 weeks)
• Deaf Awareness (10 weeks)
• Basic Food Hygiene (2 day course)
• Level 2 Health & Safety (1 day)
• Level 2 Emergency First Aid in the Workplace (1 day)
• Level 2 Paediatric First Aid (1 day)
• Level 2 Food Hygiene (1 day)
• Level 2 Manual Handling (1 day)

Non-accredited and leisure courses

Fee-based with concessions

• Macramé (30 weeks)
• Sugarcraft (30 weeks)
• Sewing Skills (20 weeks)
• International Cooking (10 weeks)

Non-accredited and leisure courses

Free to learners, grant-funded

• Dressmaking (15 weeks)
• Indian Cookery (15 weeks)
• Cake Decoration (10 weeks)
• Digital Photography (7 weeks)
• Tai Ch'i taster (6 weeks)
• Yoga taster (6 weeks)
• Face Painting (5 weeks)
• Clippy Mat Making (officially 5 weeks — but still going strong without tutors!)
• Balloon Art (1 day)

If any of these spark your interest or — even better — if you feel you could teach similar subjects to the grand people of Horden, please get in touch.