​Boost your cooking skills, meet new people, and enjoy fun, hands-on cooking sessions at Down Town Cookery School this autumn!

Fridays, September – December 2025
10am – 12pm
Down Town Cookery School (above New Look)
 FREE sessions!
What to expect:
Hands-on cooking in small groups (8 participants)
Delicious, budget-friendly recipes + take-home ingredients
Complimentary grocery membership & shop access
Online recipe resources
To register: 01282 686402
Email: contact@burnleytogether.org.uk

A fun, friendly activity where families can cook, play and spend time together!
Aimed at children aged 5–10 and their families (siblings welcome too).

Here’s what you can look forward to:

• Learn to cook easy, affordable meals
• Get recipes and ingredients to takeaway
• Take part in fun physical activities
• Socialise with other families
• Encourage your family to try healthy foods
• Runs once a week for 6 weeks
• Each session is split into 3 parts:
• Family Cooking Time
• Family Game Time
• Time To Eat!

 For more information, contact your child’s school or email  mrowe@blcgroup.co.uk

A brand-new 12-week programme designed to help you improve your nutrition, get active, and enjoy delicious food you prepare yourself!
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Every Wednesday from 3rd September – 19th November
10am – 12pm
 Burnley Mechanics Basement Studio
 Just £3 per session

What to expect:

• Nutrition & activity weeks – healthy eating advice + circuit-style exercise
• Cooking & activity weeks – prepare a healthy meal, exercise, and enjoy what you’ve made
• This easy-to-follow rotation gives you the perfect balance of learning, movement, cooking & eating!

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Limited spaces available – book in advance to secure your place for all 12 weeks!
 Call 01282 664444 or visit  blcgroup.co.uk

Employee absence can impact managers and also colleagues who are asked to cover their work - so It's important to manage absence correctly. 
Acas absence management training will keep you up-to-date on the law, and give you the skills to confidently manage absence in the workplace.

You'll learn:

• absence: the facts
• the role of the line manager
• employee health and wellbeing
• managing employee sickness 
• disability and sickness absence
• absence policies

Upcoming training dates, £270 per person:
25/26 September, 1/2 October, 6/7 October, 30/31 October
(two 3 hour sessions over two consecutive days)

16 October, 21 October (one day)
If you would like help booking onto an event, or if you would like to discuss delivering this training in-company please call our Customer Services Team on 0300 123 1150. 

 Making reasonable adjustments
Where an employee has a disability, an employer has a legal obligation to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act.
Sometimes, people who have long term physical or mental health conditions may not recognise themselves as having a disability. However, they may benefit from adjustments at work. 
Acas training will help you develop confidence in holding conversations about and making reasonable adjustments for employees with health conditions.
Upcoming training dates, £170 per person:
24 September, 21 October

 Mental health 
Mental health, like physical health, can change throughout our lives. 

Organisations benefit from encouraging people to talk openly about mental health and issues such as stress, anxiety and wellbeing.

Managers who are skilled at supporting mental health in the workplace can:

• reduce absence
• minimise staff turnover
• avoid potential conflict
• increase productivity

Upcoming training dates:

Mental health: skills for managers, £270 per person
23 September, 1 October,
28/29 October (over 2 days)
Mental health: employer responsibilities, £110 per person
20 October

 Advice and resources
Advice: Holiday and leave
Advice: Managing absence and returning to work
Advice: Supporting mental health at work
Free template: Mental health reasonable adjustment confirmation
Free template: Reasonable adjustment review template
Example policies: Flexible working policy

 View upcoming Acas events - Our most popular topics:
Redundancy
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Having difficult conversations
Employment law update
TUPE
Conducting investigations
Mental health in the workplace
Behaviours at work
HR for beginners
Managing discipline and grievance
Managing absence
Skills for line managers
View events by location:
Scotland  |  East of England   |   Wales    |   London  |   West Midlands  |   South West
East Midlands   |  North East  |  North West   |  Yorkshire and the Humber  |  South East
Contact our training and customer support for help with booking on a course.  

Just wanted to send out one last push for our new social sciences course in International Social Work and Community Development course from our Burnley campus starting late September 2025.


We still have places left if anyone knows anyone who might be interested in our course:
https://www.lancashire.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/international-social-work-ba-hons

It’s perfect for people wanting to learn about good practice working in communities on positive methods of collective action and social change, with our graduates going on to work in local politics or for charities and international aid organisations.
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On the programme young people will:

• Understand the realities of working with children in care
• Develop practical knowledge around safeguarding, emotional resilience, behaviour management, and person-centred care
• Build essential work ready skills such as communication, team working, organisation and problem solving
• Take part in a half day chaperoned visit to a registered children’s home
• Have the potential for an interview at the end of the programme for current vacancies, depending on outcome of programme and positions available

Eligibility:

• Must be 19+
• Must not be on a Visa
• No sponsorship available

Programme dates:
15.09.25- 24.10.25
Half a day induction visit.

Please send referrals or queries to tayyibah.munshi@kingstrust.org.uk by Wednesday 10th September or use the link below to sign up to the programme
Health & Social Care - Courses - Get into Residential Childcare

Eligibility Criteria:

• 19+ years old
• Unemployed or earning below £31,000 per year
• Living in the UK for at least 3 years

Please email info@linkbridgecentre.com for more information or to book a place.

What will you learn?
This session will be delivered by an MS-UK team member, alongside a volunteer with lived experience of MS.

• What is MS?
• Myths and preconceptions
• Symptoms that may impact on wellbeing
• A lived experience of MS
• Symptom management tips

The kind of support that people with MS may need on their MS journey
 
Who should attend

• Health and social care workers
• Community based professionals
• Professionals that work for a charity or voluntary organisation supporting people with a disability
• Support workers or home care workers
• Professionals that work in health or social care
• Teams that support people living with MS

 
If you’re a care provider, social prescriber, or work in employment support (including the DWP), we recommend joining one of our specialised MS Awareness sessions tailored specifically for your role. Click the links above to find the session that’s right for you!
 
What do others have to say about MS-UK’s awareness sessions?
 
'This was fabulous training – probably one of the best sessions that I have been on in ages'
 
‘Really helpful, thanks – more practical and informative than my Speech and Language Therapy training at University’
 
‘It was really useful to understand more about MS and quell many of the misconceptions that are around the condition. It was great to have someone with lived experience sharing the information with us’
 
How to sign up
To join our free session click here.
 
eLearning
We have eLearning available for everyone and a variety of online training sessions on Zoom for professionals.