Starting your short course at CWA

Build your workshop skills before producing a small timber project to take home. You’ll cover tool identification and maintenance, timber joints, and fixing to timber and masonry; possible projects include a planter, bird box or boot remover.

Explore a selection of Japanese and Chinese dishes during this practical cookery course.

Decorate an 8-inch fruit cake with a Christmas theme. You’ll learn to work with marzipan and sugarpaste, crimping, side decoration, piping and writing, royal icing runouts and basic modelled Christmas figures.

Develop your cake-decorating skills through tiered cakes, brush embroidery, side designs and basic modelling. You’ll also create a wired flower spray using roses, leaves, filler flowers and ribbon loops.

Across three practical days you’ll make a range of preserved foods including gravlax, cured egg yolks, kimchi, fermented lemons and Thai paste, mango and beetroot chutneys, piccalilli and pickled cucumber. Sessions include demonstrations, tastings and products to take home.

• Italian: homemade lasagne with fresh pasta
• Indian: curry, rice and naan bread
• Mexican: chilli, rice and homemade nachos
• Asian: stir-fry, chow mein and Korean chicken
• French: chicken ballotine with dauphinoise potatoes
• Spanish: patatas bravas, paella and white bean stew

Develop both simple and more advanced cake-baking techniques through practical bakes designed to build your confidence and skills.

Learn how to turn a 2D design into a 3D garment by taking body measurements, drafting blocks, creating pattern pieces and constructing a toile.

Learn to read a sewing pattern, lay out and cut fabric, construct a toile and make fitting adjustments before creating your own jacket or coat.

Learn to read a sewing pattern, lay out and cut fabric, construct a toile and make fitting adjustments before creating your own trousers.

Five practical days introduce skills for health, emergency care, wound and skin care, supporting people with dementia, and preparing for work in health and social care.

Build confidence in beginner Portuguese through grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, alongside Portuguese language and culture. The course explores a selection of everyday topics and cultural themes.

Build on basic music knowledge with keys and major scales including C, G and F. You’ll learn key signatures, whole and half steps, practise scales and simple melodies, and use listening activities to recognise pitch and tonality.

Learn the foundations of pitch, rhythm, melody and harmony. You’ll work with the musical staff, clefs and note names through simple songs, written exercises and practical activities.

Learn the complete black-and-white darkroom process from loading and shooting film to developing and printing. You’ll create photograms, use enlargers and chemicals, print your own negatives and try techniques such as dodging and burning.