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Community Learning

Our Centres in Truro, Newquay and Penzance allow you to learn at a time, place and pace to suit you. We offer a wide range of practical courses leading to useful qualifications that can help you:

  • Improve your employment opportunities
  • Change direction or move on in your career
  • Return to work or education
  • Make a fresh start and learn new skills

We have an excellent team dedicated to offering you free, impartial and confidential advice and guidance for the unemployed and employed. Truro and Penwith College and Next Step who are based on our sites, offer impartial information, advice and guidance about courses, careers and job search techniques to anyone over the age of 16.  All staff are NVQ advice and guidance qualified..

Whatever your needs the team are here to help and have proven experience of enabling people to overcome barriers to learning, such as disability, dyslexia, childcare and benefit issues.

To make an appointment with our guidance officers please contact

Rosie Tredinnick-Davidson on 01872 261151

Free training available for the Unemployed, Redundant or those at Risk of Redundancy

We are pleased to have secured two new European Social Fund (ESF) projects, Skills Support for Unemployed and Skills Support for Redundancy, and are now able to provide free support to those who are at risk of redundancy, newly redundant or unemployed and looking for work.

This support is designed to break down any barriers individuals have in order to help them back into employment. We assist people into jobs by monitoring local vacancies to see which industries are looking to recruit, then tailoring our training to ensure our students are given the skills they need to fill the requirements of the jobs available.

Sectors we have already identified as suitable to offer to our students include Hospitality, Retail, Care and Administration, but this is constantly evolving.

As well as helping individuals who contact us we are also able to work with employers and groups of employees by helping them through any redundancy processes they may be facing. We can visit the workplace and the employees affected to discuss how we can help them after redundancy to aid them into new employment quickly.

Courses within Visualise your Future can be accessed for Free to you if you are currently unemployed, redundant or at risk of redundancy (subject to eligibilty criteria). To view these courses please visit http://www.truro-penwith.ac.uk/visualise-your-future/

If you feel you, or your business, could benefit from Skills Support for Unemployed or Skills Support for Redundancy and would like to find out more contact us on 01872 261151 or email community@truro-penwith.ac.uk

If you hear of anybody who is facing unemployment or redundancy please Spread the Word and let them know how we can help them.

News and Feedback

Please see the following link:

http://www.truro-penwith.ac.uk/news/funded-skills-training-for-anns-cottage/

Why Choose Us?

  • One of the top ten colleges in the UK
  • One of the few colleges to be awarded Beacon Status
  • The first college in the UK to be awarded Designated Outstanding status by Ofsted in January 2007
  •  One of the newest and most innovative colleges in the UK
  • Our centres have been awarded matrix accreditation, a national quality standard for information, advice and guidance services for learning and work.