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Drop in Art & Craft Sessions on Wednesdays
Start Date: 17th September 2025
Every Wednesday 12.15pm - 1.45pm
Traditional Leaded Stained Glass Workshop 24th Nov
Start Date: 24th November 2025
Learn the heritage craft of leaded stained glass, as seen in churches and stately homes throughout the UK.
Drawing for Beginners
Start Date: 18th September 2025
This course is suitable for complete beginners or those wishing to refresh their skills.
Vase Arrangement
Start Date: 10th November 2025
Learn new flower arranging skills and discover simple techniques to get the best from your flowers.
Printmaking - What is Lino Cutting?
Start Date: 16th September 2025
Want to try something new? This is going to be fun. Keen to develop your existing skills in printmaking? Here’s your opportunity.
Drop-In Art & Craft Sessions on Fridays
Start Date: 19th September 2025
Every Friday 10am - 12pm
Exploring Batik
Start Date: 1st December 2025
An exciting opportunity to learn and further develop skills and knowledge in batik: a traditional textile craft and contemporary art medium.
Making an Impression: Exploring Impressionist Art History and Techniques
Start Date: 5th November 2025
This immersive five-week course will take students on a journey through the Impressionist movement, where you’ll discover the key artists, styles, and events that shaped this revolutionary period in art.
Drop-In Art & Craft Sessions on Fridays
Start Date: 19th September 2025
Every Friday 11.45am - 1.45pm
Beginners’ Watercolour
Start Date: 18th September 2025
This course is suitable for anyone new to watercolour painting or those who wish to refresh their skills.
Advanced Life Drawing AUTUMN
Start Date: 5th November 2025
Designed for experienced artists looking to push their life drawing skills to new heights, this advanced course focuses on precision, expression, and artistic interpretation.
Christmas Wreaths
Start Date: 17th November 2025
Learn how to create a beautiful, handmade Christmas wreath made with fresh, locally sourced foliage, all with step-by-step guidance.
Regency Garden Sampler – A Slow Stitch Creative Session
Start Date: 15th November 2025
Saturday 15th November
10.00am-12.30pm
A Stitch in Time – Jane Austen Bookmark Embroidery
Start Date: 15th November 2025
Saturday 15th November
1.00pm-3.30pm
The Meaning of Evolution
Start Date: 6th November 2025
A great deal of Biology is descriptive and nature programmes have fascinated millions of viewers for decades.
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and its Applications
Start Date: 3rd November 2025
This five week course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to these cutting-edge fields.
Psychology - The Enduring Debates
Start Date: 6th November 2025
To what extent can Psychology offer wisdom and insight applicable to our everyday lives in an ever-changing world?
Pilates Intermediate
Start Date: 19th September 2025
This is a more challenging class for those who have done Pilates for at least 2 years. It is not suitable for beginners.
Tai Chi
Start Date: 19th September 2025
Tai Chi is a slow mind/body exercise using yoga type principles to help improve how we move including correcting our breathing, posture, toning muscles, and improving flexibility.
Bodyaware
Start Date: 19th September 2025
Bodyaware is a great way to start an exercise programme or as a development to other forms of exercise and helps with body posture, function, movement and balance.
Pilates Improver
Start Date: 19th September 2025
This class is suitable for those with a basic knowledge of Pilates but not absolute beginners.
Rothsay Ramblers
Start Date: 15th September 2025
The Rothsay Ramblers, our outdoor walking group, invites you to embrace the beauty of the Bedfordshire countryside, while enjoying the benefits of healthy exercise!
Yoga
Start Date: 17th September 2025
Multi-style and chair-based yoga stretches for health and wellbeing of mind, body and soul.
Beginners Bridge
Start Date: 16th September 2025
Whether you're a complete beginner who's never played before or have some knowledge of bridge, we will teach and consolidate your learning so that you'll be able to join local clubs, or play casually with friends.
Improvers Bridge
Start Date: 16th September 2025
Bridge is a pretty easy game to learn but it can take decades to master. Would you like to improve your card play, plan your strategy, learn more conventions or develop your hand evaluation skills?
The Welfare of Bedfordians (1800 -1914)
Start Date: 8th October 2025
The rapid development of Bedford in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries exposed the need to improve the quality of life in Bedford for a variety of reasons.
Power, Justice and Freedom: Understanding Political Theory in Today's World
Start Date: 4th November 2025
This five-week course delves into the ideas of Hobbes, Locke, Marx, Arendt, and Mill, exploring their views on power, democracy, and justice.
The Arab-Israeli Dispute (repeat)
Start Date: 19th September 2025
This course focuses on developments from the last years of the Ottoman Empire, through the creation of Mandates and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 to the successive wars with her neighbours.
“And of all this, I might have been mistress” – Landscape as character and setting in novels of Jane Austen/Regency Gardens "
Start Date: 15th November 2025
Saturday 15th November
10am - 3.30pm
Movie Mix
Start Date: 17th September 2025
Each week we will look at a film available to watch on television from any period, genre, or country, one that can be deemed Film of the Week.
Britain During the Lifetime of Jane Austen (November)
Start Date: 15th November 2025
Saturday 15th November
10am - 1pm
Does God Exist?
Start Date: 16th September 2025
Religion has played a highly important part in the lives of human beings. The key claim of some of the great religions of the world is that God exists.
Criminology, Crime & Policing
Start Date: 26th September 2025
Explore a number of issues related to crime, offending behaviours and policing, including the history of women in policing.
More Old News – the Past through Old Newspapers
Start Date: 5th November 2025
We will look at local and world news through the prism of an old newspaper, where possible linked to anniversaries or topical news events.
Great Dictators; Mussolini, Mao, Franco, Castro and Saddam Hussein
Start Date: 6th November 2025
Not your ideal dinner party guest list, but well worth getting to know these individuals who have left a deep imprint on the course of the last 100 years.
The Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906) and the Polarisation of France
Start Date: 15th November 2025
Saturday 15th November
10am - 12pm
French Improvers
Start Date: 7th January 2026
You've studied this language before and can understand common expressions related to personal life, work and routine matters.
Italian Absolute Beginners
Start Date: 6th January 2026
Do you fancy learning a language? Our Absolute Beginners classes focus on learning through basic every day useful conversation scenarios.
Spanish Improvers
Start Date: 14th January 2026
You've studied this language before and can understand common expressions related to personal life, work and routine matters.
French Lower Intermediate
Start Date: 8th January 2026
You've studied this language before and can understand and participate in conversations on a variety of topics; express opinions, describe experiences in detail.
Spanish Beginners Plus
Start Date: 13th January 2026
You've learnt this language before and understand familiar everyday expressions.
Spanish Intermediate / Advanced
Start Date: 14th January 2026
You've studied this language before and can understand and participate in conversations on a variety of topics; express opinions, describe experiences in detail.
German Improvers
Start Date: 6th January 2026
You've studied this language before and can understand common expressions related to personal life, work and routine matters.
German Beginners Plus
Start Date: 9th January 2026
You've learnt this language before and understand familiar everyday expressions.
German Advanced Conversation
Start Date: 9th January 2026
You are able and confident in speaking the language and reading about many topics. We use lots of different authentic materials to help you refine how you use this language.
French Conversation: Intermediate
Start Date: 7th January 2026
This class is an intermediate level conversation group and as such is not suitable for beginners.
Italian Advanced
Start Date: 7th January 2026
You are able and confident in speaking the language and reading about many topics. We use lots of different authentic materials to help you refine how you use this language.
German Upper Intermediate
Start Date: 6th January 2026
You've studied this language before and can understand and participate in conversations on a variety of topics; express opinions, describe experiences in detail.
French Absolute Beginners
Start Date: 7th January 2026
Do you fancy learning a language? Our Absolute Beginners classes focus on learning through basic every day useful conversation scenarios.
French Upper Intermediate
Start Date: 5th January 2026
You've studied this language before and can understand and participate in conversations on a variety of topics; express opinions, describe experiences in detail.
French Conversation Intermediate to Advanced
Start Date: 8th January 2026
This is an intermediate to advanced level conversation group. No need to talk perfect French, but you need the confidence to hold a substantial conversation.
Italian Intermediate
Start Date: 7th January 2026
You've studied this language before and can understand and participate in conversations on a variety of topic; express opinions, describe experiences in detail.
Spanish Advanced Conversation
Start Date: 13th January 2026
Is your Spanish a bit rusty? Ven a nuestra clase a practicarlo. No importa que lo hayas olvidado un poco, pronto lo recordarás.
French Intermediate
Start Date: 8th January 2026
You've studied this language before and can understand and participate in conversations on a variety of topic; express opinions, describe experiences in detail.
French Advanced
Start Date: 5th January 2026
You are fluent in this language speaking and writing on any topic even in complex discussions.
Italian Improvers
Start Date: 6th January 2026
You've studied this language before and can understand common expressions related to personal life, work and routine matters.
German Lower Intermediate
Start Date: 9th January 2026
You've studied this language before and can understand and participate in conversations on a variety of topics; express opinions, describe experiences in detail.
Spanish Absolute Beginners
Start Date: 13th January 2026
Do you fancy learning a language? Our Absolute Beginners classes focus on learning through basic every day useful conversation scenarios.
Italian Beginners Plus
Start Date: 7th January 2026
You've learnt this language before and understand familiar everyday expressions.
Singing for Pleasure (Autumn Term)
Start Date: 19th September 2025
If you are looking to join a choir that is friendly and enthusiastic then Singing for Pleasure is the group for you!
What Is There To Do After Wagner?
Start Date: 19th September 2025
Join John Dawson as he shows you how the music of the first quarter of the 20th Century really grew quite naturally out of its Romantic antecedents - and produced some really lovely work in the process!
Recorder for Intermediates
Start Date: 16th September 2025
Did you play the recorder at school and are wondering about playing again? Come and join our friendly intermediate group.
Recorder Ensemble
Start Date: 16th September 2025
The Recorder Ensemble is a friendly group of players who enjoy exploring works of composers from the 13th century to the present day.
Learning Music and Recorder for Beginners
Start Date: 16th September 2025
We gradually learn to read music and play the recorder in a friendly and supportive group.
Take 5 at Tate Britain
Start Date: 7th November 2025
In this five week course, we will explore five different paintings and artists from the Tate Britain Collection.
Quiz Night - 27th November
Start Date: 27th November 2025
Test your grey cells with our ever popular Quiz night with Fish & Chips supper!
Ghosts - A Cultural History
Start Date: 6th November 2025
Most of us like ghost stories. This course will look at the cultural history of the ghost.
What do ghost stories tell us about ourselves and our imaginings?
Poetry Appreciation
Start Date: 19th September 2025
This course fosters a love of poetry through the discussion of a variety of carefully selected poems.
Do come and join us and share in the rewards of reading poetry together in a circle. No prior experience is necessary!
Jane Austen's Birthday Party (November)
Start Date: 15th November 2025
Saturday 15th November
1pm - 3pm
Berlin Stories - The Artificial Silk Girl and Goodbye Berlin
Start Date: 17th September 2025
This course looks at the way the Weimar Republic has been presented in fiction.
Creative Writing: Find your writing ‘voice’, with help from Jane Austen
Start Date: 15th November 2025
Saturday 15th November
10am - 3.30pm
Practice Your Sign Language
Start Date: 24th September 2025
This is a semi structured session with Joanna offering the opening subject and you following the natural course of your conversations.
Ghost Stories Evening
Start Date: 6th November 2025
Join us for an evening of two chilling, candlelit ghost stories, read by local professional actors, Albert Welling and Matt Baker, on Thursday 6th November at 7pm to around 8:30pm, including a 15 minute interval.