The first Making the Pounds Meet the Ends course was acreditted by the North East Open College Network in 2003. It can still be delivered in any suitable location that I can travel to, which is basically most of County Durham. (County Durham is in northern England.)
The course will cover topics like:
For a leaflet in pdf format outlining the course content click here
The same leaflet in word format is available here
Another course wase acreditted by NEOCN at the same time as Making the Pounds Meet the Ends. This course (called Surviving a Household Emergency) is already set up as an online course on another web site called Lily the Pink Learning
It is a bit more difficult setting up a course for Making the Pounds Meet the Ends because it incluse some practical sessions on cookery and gift-making. However, it is intended to find a way around these hurdles. This would mean anyone in the UK who wanted to do a version of the course could do so providing they had Internet access.
There are also a series of single session workshops suitable for groups who want a short practical session or talk on a home related issue. I can do these anywhere that I can travel to easily, again that means most of the North East of England.
Not
a Budget but a Spending
Plan
Most of us hate the idea of a budget because we think that they are
designed to hold us in so we cannot breathe. Try learning to breathe
again by developing a spending plan.
Strategies
for Winning the Grocery Wars
What you can do to make the same amount of money go further.
Real
Food Real Cheap
Ideas for cooking cheap and easy meals from real ingredients rather
than from tins and boxes.
We
are Coming up Roses
Using stencils and wrapping paper to make pictures that are good enough
to give away.
Crochet
for
Beginners
A practical session for small groups who would like to start learning
to make things for themselves.
Get Crafty with IT
Ways in which it is possible to use computer skills with craft skills
in order to develop a variety of different crafts.
If you would like any further details on the courses or the workshops, please don't hesitate to contact me.