If you would like to explore your interests, try something new or just want to meet new people and have fun Boston College offers a wide and varied range of Adult Bite-size courses.
Our Adult Bite-size courses are fun, practical non-accredited courses, which can run from a couple of hours during a single day to a few sessions over a number of weeks. The courses cost no more than £60, with some being FREE.
Some of the Adult Bite-size courses are funded by the Lincolnshire County Council - for more information, please read their Learner Handbook.
Location Key
BC | Boston Campus (Rochford)
PPPC | Peter Paine Performance Centre
SNC | Sam Newsom Centre
SC | Spalding Campus
HC | Horncastle Campus
Please note: Due to funding guidelines, there is a limit set at four Adult Bite-size applications per student in one academic year (September 2024 - September 2025).
Art and Design
Advanced Skirt Making (SC)
The Advanced Skirt Making course has been designed for people with some existing skills in dress making and following a pattern, or who have already completed our Beginners’ Dressmaking course in the autumn term.
In weeks 1 – 3, you will practice box and kick pleats, an inseam pocket and a godet as well as looking at different fitting issues and how to change a waistband to a faced waistband.
In weeks 4 -6, you will make a up a skirt pattern of your choice (support will be available to help you choose) in provided calico fabric so that at the end of the course you are ready to make your new skirt yourself.
You will need to bring your own sewing machine; paper and fabric scissors; thread, pins, and any other general sewing items.
Attendance: Advanced Skirt Making will take you 6 sessions to complete. You will attend college for 1 session per week, starting on Monday 2nd June 2025 1:00pm - 3:00pm, at our Spalding Campus.
Cost: Free
Creative Textiles for Wellbeing (SC)
The Creative Textiles for Wellbeing PCDL course has been designed to introduce you to a range of decorative techniques that can be applied to any textile project and apply one/two of the techniques to a cushion with a zipper or button fastening.
Week 1: Shadow applique and reverse applique
Week 2: Fabric manipulation techniques.
Week 3: 3D fabric flowers. Designing a cushion
Week 4: Apply decoration to a cushion front.
Week 5: Apply a zip or buttons and complete the cushion.
You will need to bring your own sewing machine, thread, fabric scissors and thread snips/scissors, pins and needles, fabric, zip, and interfacing for the cushion.
Attendance: Creative Textiles for Wellbeing will take you 4 sessions to complete. You will attend college for 1 session per week, starting on Wednesday 4th June 2025 1:00pm - 4:00pm, at our Spalding Campus.
Cost: Free
Machine Embroidery for Beginners (SC)
The Machine Embroidery for Beginners course is a six-week course where you will:
-Look at fabrics and stabilisers used for machine embroidery
-Build confidence using the hoop and movements
-Create a sample of a basic stitched outline picture
-Look at thread sketching with the machine
-Create wired 3D lace flowers
-Create a textured picture using the techniques learnt
Attendance: Machine Embroidery for Beginners will take you 4 sessions to complete. You will attend college for 1 session per week, starting on Tuesday 10th June 2025 1:00pm - 4:00pm, at our Spalding Campus.
Cost: £9.50
Business and Accounting
Technical Language for Accounting (BC)
This Technical Language for Accounting course is being offered free, to help with the terminology that you may come across on the Level 2 Foundation Certificate in Accounting.
Technical Language for Level 2 Accounting will particularly suit those who have had no accounting experience and have no qualifications in Maths or English. It would also suit those learners who have English as a second language and need more support. This course would also suit those learners who have completed any of the Level 1 AAT courses and are looking to progress further with the AAT.
This qualification may interest those who are wishing to begin a self-employed career or are thinking about a career change into the business/finance field.
Attendance: Technical Language for Accounting will take you 2 session to complete. You will attend college for 1 session per week, starting on Friday 9th May 2025, 9:00am - 4:00pm at our Boston Campus (Rochford)
Cost: Free
Early Years and Schools
Introduction to the Role of a Teaching Assistant (BC, SC)
This Introduction to the role of a Teaching Assistant course is aimed at those interested in a career in becoming a teaching assistant or learning support in an educational setting. You may be volunteering or starting to work in schools or even just considering this professional pathway.
Completion of this course will give you a deeper understanding of the role of a teaching assistant or learning support and will encourage you to consider what the role entails. You will have fun, hands on activities and it may help you progress to a career in Supporting Teaching & Learning.
Attendance: Introduction to the Role of a Teaching Assistant will take you 1 session to complete. You will attend college on your choice of the below dates:
- Monday 19th May 2025, 5:00pm - 8:00pm, at our Spalding Campus
- Monday 9th June 2025, 5:00pm - 8:00pm, at our Boston Campus (Rochford)
Cost: Free
Employment and Skills Training
Introduction to British Sign Language (HC)
This Introduction to British Sign Language is a 4 week course that will enable you to engage in basic conversation with the deaf and hard of hearing who understand British Sign Language.
Topics will include:
The Alphabet
Simple Greetings
Weather
Numbers
Attendance: Introduction to British Sign Language will take you 4 sessions to complete. You will attend college on Tuesday 13th May 2025, 6:00pm - 9:00pm, at our Horncastle Campus.
Cost: Free
Sport, Fitness and Wellbeing
Re-Energise Yourself (PPPC)
This course provides an introduction to wellness and wellbeing including essential nutrition, planning your food, stress management strategies and how wellness links to motivation and productivity in the workplace and in your personal life.
Attendance: Re-Energise Yourself will take you 1 session to complete. You will attend college on Tuesday 20th May 2025, 9:30am - 12:30pm, at our Peter Paine Performance Centre in Boston.
Cost: Free
Funded in Partnership with Lincolnshire County Council.
Need some more advice?
If you are unsure about which course is right for you, Boston College Careers Advisers are here to help. The Career Advisers offer FREE impartial Career Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) and are available before you start to college, whilst you are studying at college and when you are ready to take the next step.
If you would like to make an appointment with one of the College's Careers Advisers, they are available by appointment at both the Boston and Spalding campuses, by either calling the College's Information Line on 01205 313218 or by email.