Courses for
Employability and Work
Retrain for a new job, or career path or to gain essential workplace skills.
Having the ambition to work for yourself or launch your own business can feel daunting to begin. Greenwich Learns provides courses in Royal Greenwich, London to help you start or grow your own business or social enterprise, or become self-employed. Our range of courses changes, so please check regularly for new opportunities.
Supporting entrepreneurship or self-employment
Starting a business or becoming self-employed
Our courses help you complete feasibility studies and market research to support an effective business plan with a clear understanding of viability. You will learn to establish the right legal structure, understand company registration and product development, and identify a start-up budget. Learning from experienced coaches, you can avoid common pitfalls and fast track your new business or employment.
Business growth courses
Build your knowledge on how to run and maintain a successful business. Courses cover website design and build including using search engine optimisation (SEO) effectively, craft a brand identity, and use social media marketing to help you grow your customer base. Small business finance and administration courses will help you to budget, forecast, classify costs and complete an annual tax return. Our training partner’s experience in food businesses means we can particularly support new start-ups in this sector.
Course funding and training locations
Most of our courses are fully funded for Greenwich residents. You can check your eligibility when you book with one of our selected training partners. Most courses are taught in person with some online options available – you can discuss any specific needs you have when you contact a training partner.
Courses for Business Support
Find and book a course
We work with a number of training partners who deliver our courses. Browse the list below and follow the links for the courses that interest you. Each link will take you to the training partner’s website where you can:
- check your eligibility for full funding – most courses are fully funded if you live in Royal Greenwich, London
- see available dates, times and locations for each course
- book a course
Need support? Contact us if you need help accessing information or booking a course.
GCDA
Our courses will help you turn your business ideas into reality. From planning and launching your business to researching legal structures, managing the accounts, developing a marketing and social media strategy, and designing a website, we will help you at every stage of your business journey.
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The Training Place of Excellence
Our courses introduce the core principles of management accounting and internal business reporting. You will learn how businesses operate, how managers use financial information, and how to prepare simple management reports. We cover topics including budgeting, forecasting, and costing.
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Courses for
Life Skills
Upskill with courses in English and maths, IT, money, family learning and wellbeing.
Courses for
Personal Development
Enrich your life with a new hobby, interest or passion and develop your self-expression.
Courses for those with a learning disability
Learn essential skills for work and home to support you to live the life you choose.
Further support in Royal Greenwich
Business Support team
The Royal Borough of Greenwich business team work to support aspiring entrepreneurs, start-ups, existing businesses and relocating businesses seeking to access available business support. Our aim is to aid businesses to thrive – to start up, grow, attract and retain commerce in the borough.
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