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Learning doesn’t have to stop in the classroom… it’s something you can enjoy and engage with throughout your life. So whether you are looking for alternative provision or STEM projects for children, adult learning classes, or courses that will support you into further education, training or employment, there are a variety of organisations within the region that offer learning opportunities ranging from leisure pursuits to career qualifications to boost your skills, knowledge and confidence.
Adult College for Rural East Sussex
Provides adult learning opportunities – from leisure courses to wellbeing sessions to GCSEs and professional development – across rural East Sussex, with possible routes into access courses and apprenticeships.
This official charity of Brighton & Hove Albion FC uses the power of football to deliver projects that improve the health, wellbeing, education and aspirations of the local community.
A Portslade-based learning organisation offering more than 100 adult education courses, evening classes and part-time courses for over-19s every year – many now available online – ranging from art to computing to Access to HE.
Provides community based adult education across West Sussex to support communities, develop skills and encourage enjoyment of learning. Courses range from gardening to caring skills, computing and family. learning
Offers engagement programmes with a military ethos for vulnerable, disengaged seven to 16-year-olds across Sussex, helping reconnect with their learning and school through challenging outdoor activities that build confidence, resilience and skills.
A sixth-form college based in Horsham that offers adult evening courses to over-19s that range from recreational classes to maths and English qualifications plus access to university and career development courses.
An Eastbourne-based training company offering a range of online courses to over-19s including IT, employability and functional skills in English and maths, as well as accreditation for the construction and security industries, and family learning options.
A specialist college offering 16- to 24-year-olds personalised, industry-led training leading to careers in the creative sector such as media production and games development. Through practical, project-based courses, students gain hands-on experience and develop skills for life and work.
Working to improve the life chances of children, families and those living in Hastings, St Leonards, Rye and the surrounding area, particularly through education, EFT offers alternative provision and forest school options for children, and a positive parenting programme.
etc Sussex (Education Training Consortium)
Based in Hastings, etc works to meet the training and educational needs of people from marginalised communities in Sussex by running IT and ESOL courses, providing access to IT and free training sessions and workshops for all ages and abilities.
A St Leonards-based charity working to support local children and families through a range of services, including nursery provision, and accredited and non-accredited workshops and courses for all ages across rural Rother and Wealden.
A Rye-based training provider delivering a wide range of courses – from wellbeing to budgeting and employability skills – for over-19s in community venues and schools around Eastbourne, with the aim of encouraging learners to realise their skills and abilities.
A Brighton & Hove-based collective of organisations spanning the creative industries, local businesses, youth groups, schools, arts and heritage, health and social services that work together to develop the creative potential and employability of young people
West Sussex-based national charity helping to support young people's interest in Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) by challenging them to design, build and race an electric car.
Based in Crawley, Ingeus provides personalised and professional support for jobseekers aged 19-plus facing challenges such as disability, disadvantage, illness, an offending background or substance misuse, helping them into work or training and with their health and wellbeing.
A Sussex-based charity working to raise low levels of numeracy and confidence with numbers among both adults and children nationally through its online numeracy challenge and campaigning activities.
A charity working across East Sussex to help people who are unemployed or living in poverty to access affordable furniture, it also offers free training courses ranging from employability and digital skills to qualifications that can lead further education and vocational courses.
Support for 18- to 24-year-olds who have been out of work, education or training for over 12 months by matching them with a dedicated advocate who will help them boost their confidence and skills, and support them back into the workplace.
Offering career guidance, employability skills, traineeships, start-up advice and paid work-placement programmes for 16- to 19-year-olds in Brighton and Hove.
With centres in Hastings and Eastbourne, this East Sussex pupil referral unit provides full-time educational opportunities for 11- to 16 year-olds at risk of permanent exclusion or who have been permanently excluded, and aims through a strong curriculum, skilled staff and positive relationships to re-engage them with learning.
Based in Fishergate near Brighton, the college provides an alternative to mainstream schooling, offering self-managed learning (SML) programmes for nine to 17-year-olds that enable them to explore the subjects that interest them in a safe environment.
Supported Employment (Southdown)
As well as providing specialist housing, care and support, Southdown offers over-18s in Sussex a range of services to help, find, return to and remain in paid work, including placements for people with mental health issues.
Sussex Community Development Association
Works across East Sussex supporting community-based projects aimed at addressing the needs of the most vulnerable, offering befriending and counselling, employment support, and an advice-and-information hub among other services.
Traveller Education Support Team
Supports schools across West Sussex to raise standards, challenge prejudices, narrow achievement and attendance gaps, and promote effective partnerships with Gypsy Roma Traveller (GRT) families and communities.
Helping young people aged eight to 18, adults and creative and tech businesses in Eastbourne to develop their digital skills, through coding classes, laptop refurbishment, 3D printing sessions, digital inclusion initiatives and more.
A Hastings-based initiative providing a complementary educational programme that combine a therapeutic approach and creative activities to challenge and support able students in receipt of free school meals who are significantly underachieving.
An academic and vocational sixth form in Brighton offering adult evening education courses ranging from GCSEs to care, health and education qualifications, as well as 16 to 19 daytime courses
West Sussex Alternative Provision College
Operates in seven locations across West Sussex, offering alternative provision to five to 16-year-olds unable to access mainstream education because of reasons ranging from challenging behaviour to ill-health.
A friendly community centre run by BHT Sussex for over-19s living in Whitehawk and East Brighton, providing a range of adult education and training courses, drop-in clubs, internet café, low-cost workshops, and information and guidance on jobs, careers and finances.
Workers Educational Association Southern
Delivering education courses for over-19s – planned by local people, for local people, held within their communities and meeting the needs of diverse community groups – to help grow confidence and skills for life and work.