As well as providing a range of courses, Friends Centre currently offers the following services:
Careers Advice
The Friends Centre offers a comprehensive career development programme for adults, who are seeking a new job, a career change, or new skills.
Read more about careers advice…
Step-by-Step
The Step by Step Project aims to improve access to English, maths and language training for homeless people in Brighton and Hove. We can also provide an introduction to IT Skills.
Get Socially Active
Get Socially Active is a free and friendly one to one coaching support service, for you if you are thinking about or feeling pressured into finding work or entering into learning, but need help to do it.
Find out more about Get Socially Active…
Free access to PCs
Friends Centre has computers at both sites that are available to use for free. Once you have filled in a simple registration form, we will put you on the system and give you your personal log-in and password details.
Read more about free access to PCs…
Learner support services
At Friends Centre we want to support all our students. If you are disabled in some way, for example if you have problems with walking, seeing, or hearing, or if you have health problems such as diabetes or epilepsy, or a mental health difficulty such as depression, we want to do all we can to support your studying at the Friends Centre.
Read more about learner support services…
Bursary Fund
The Hardship Fund was founded to honour Lynda Kinsella (pictured above, far right), who was the Centre Manager at the Friends Centre from 1977 to the time of her death in October 2006. The amount of money we have is limited, and we welcome any donations.
Read more about our bursary fund…
Self Study Area
Our online resources and links to resources for learners can all be found on this web page.
Projects & Partners
We have various other projects in Brighton & Hove and many partners that we work together to help communities in the city.