Parent Mental Health Day encourages understanding and awareness of the importance of parents’ mental health and its impact on the whole family system. With this year’s theme being ‘balance’, the day aims to get parents and carers to take a moment to reflect on the balance they have in their lives and to take positive steps to make change.…
We’re looking for people who are enthusiastic about technology to step forward as part of a new volunteer programme, ‘Digital Champions,’ to help connect residents across Essex to the online world. The new volunteer programme has been set-up to support people to live independently, reduce digital and social isolation, improve users’ confidence with devices, whilst…
Essex Retrain, Retain, Gain is a fully funded training programme for employers to invest in the development of their staff. The training programmes reintroduce employed individuals to learning new skills. Training can be delivered as a range of bitesize, short training sessions in topics that can be tailored to meet the needs of your organisation.…
Adult education learning provider, ACL Essex, is setting a New Year skills challenge to encourage the people of Essex to boost their skills and gain Level 2 and Level 3 qualifications to help improve their career opportunities. A recent ONS survey¹ revealed that there are over 40,000 working age residents in Essex who have not…
As we continue to prioritise the safety of our learners and staff, please adhere to the below updated safety guidance when returning to our centres in January 2022. This includes updated guidance for face coverings and testing. Face coveringsFrom 4 January 2022, unless exempt, face coverings should be worn by staff, learners and visitors when…
Essex County Council (ECC) have committed to unlocking £1,000,000 of funding over five years to support Essex’s arts and cultural sector. A NEW £1 million fund which will provide support to the county’s art and culture sector over the next five years is to be launched by Essex County Council (ECC). Opening on Tuesday 4…
Each week, we’ll be showcasing the fantastic apprenticeships opportunities we have to help support and develop businesses, apprentices, and the workforce across Essex. ACL Essex offer the Level 2 Customer Service Practitioner and Level 3 Customer Service Specialist Apprenticeships. Would you like to be skilled in one of most important traits to a business? Or…
We are excited to launch our new courses for 2022! There’s over 1000 courses on offer across our centres and online. Download or view our new course guide. Browse our full range of courses and discover opportunities to enhance your career prospects, develop new skills, improve your health and wellbeing, whilst connecting with others in…
Adult education learning provider, ACL Essex, has launched their latest programme of courses for 2022 enrolment. There’s over 1000 courses on offer across ACL Essex’s network of adult community centres and online, including mid-term enrolment for fast-track GCSE courses, where learners can pick up a pass within six months. Adult learners looking to gain new…
In November we launched our Autumn and Winter Scenes Competition. We asked you to get creative and submit artwork and photography inspired by Autumn and Winter. We had an amazing selection of entries and are pleased to announce our winners. The winning entries will be added to our 2022 calendar. Congratulations to Gill, Anna, Kayly,…