• Health conditions
• Health and social care services
• Advice for carers
• Support groups, voluntary
  organisations and charities
• Housing
• Financial advice and benefits
• Education and training
• Employment and volunteering
• Healthy living, social and
  leisure
• Transport
• Crisis support

Education and training

Education for those over 60

• Leisure and learning for the 60s and over (139kb PDF file)
  This information leaflet explains the different activities and resources available to older people to enhance their learning and further their leisure time.
  
• U3A University of the Third Age
  Encourages older people to take up or continue educational and other interests in friendly and informal settings.
  
  Contact details
  Telephone: 020 8466 6139

Grants, funding and benefits

• Free childcare while you train

• Help for parents going back to work

• The Learning and Skills Council
  The LSC are responsible for planning and funding high quality education and training for everyone in England other than those in universities. This website contains information about the different services, grants and funds available.
  
• Where to get help for learning costs
• Skills vouchers
  Gives details of what funding may be available for your chosen course. You may be entitled to receive government funding for training, depending upon your eligibility.
  

Colleges and courses

Colleges

• City College, Brighton
  Vocational courses, training and qualifications.

Contact details
Address: City College Brighton and Hove
Pelham Street
Brighton
BN1 4FA
Telephone: 01273 667788
Email: info@ccb.ac.uk

• Portslade Community Centre
  Provides a range of courses for adults
• Skills for Life Development Centre - SfLDC
  Aims to promote successful basic skills learning across Sussex:
  
  Contact details
  Address: Sussex Innovation Centre
  Science Park Square
  Falmer
  Brighton
  BN1 9TS
  Telephone: 01273 704530
  Email: sfldc@cfbt.com
• The Bridge Community Education Centre
  An adult education and development service based in the Moulescoomb area of East Brighton. Offering a wide range of courses and support in finding voluntary, educational and employment opportunities.
  
  Contact details
  Address:The Bridge Community Education Centre Lucraft Road
  Brighton
  BN2 4PN
  Telephone: 01273 294929
  Email: staff@bridgecommunity.org.uk
• The Whitehawk Inn Community Learning Centre
  Provides a vital link between adult education and training and finding employment.
• Varndean College, Brighton
  Adult eduction and access courses.

Contact details
Address: Varndean College, Surrenden Road
Brighton
BN1 6WQ
Telephone:
General: 01273 508011
Adult Education 01273 546604

Courses

• Adult learning in Brighton & Hove
  Links to a search engine of courses provided in Brighton & Hove.
• Adult and Continuing Education Department
  Directory of adult learning providers. Wide range of courses including literacy & numeracy classes, vocational, post graduate, and English classes for people whose first language is not English.
  
  Contact details
  Address: Brighton Town Hall
  Bartholomew Square
  BN1 1JR
  Telephone: 01273 294287
  Email: adultskillsandlearning@brighton-hove.gov.uk
• English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL)
  
  Contact details
  Telephone: 01273 689265
• Futures Training, through Learndirect
  Offer programmes in both English literacy and numeracy. Also funded NVQ’s in areas such as ITQ, customer service, business administration and health and social care.
• Friends Centre Adult Education
  An independent adult education organisation where learners can develop their knowledge, skills, understanding & creativity.
• IT and other support training leading to qualifications
  A range of training solutions and courses.
• Search for courses and qualifications on the Learn Direct website
  You can do many courses at your Learn Direct centre or from home and work.
  
  Contact details
  Telephone: 0800 101 901
• Maths and English skills
  Brush up your skills
  
  Contact details
  Telephone: 0800 660 800
• Pitman training
  A range of courses in administration, business and technical training offered from short courses to full diplomas leading to qualifications.
• World Web Wise
  Community based project providing free multimedia training and support throughout Brighton. Mainly works with excluded young people and older people, black and minority ethnic groups and people with disabilities.
  
  Contact details:
  Address: Summerhouse
  74 Wickhurst Road
  Mile Oak
  Portslade
  BN41 2TF
  Telephone: 01273 423 627
  Email: hq@summerlandstudios.co.uk
• Training and development for people in the engineering and manufacturing sector.
  Training is provided by Sigta Limited. Provides a range of short courses in technical and non technical courses.
• HaKIT (Hangleton and Knoll IT project)
  Free and low cost computer training is available for local residents of Hangleton & Knoll.
• Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project
  Courses on healthy living, creative sessions, languages and more.

Higher education

• Information for adults considering university courses
• Managing applications to higher education courses in the UK
  

Qualifications explained

• Qualifications explained
  What different qualifications mean, what your qualification is worth and the opportunities it could give you.