Norfolk Adult Education and Learning

New free Norfolk Adult Learning courses!

There are a few free courses with Adult Learning and Skills, in and around Norwich.  

A lot of the key skills courses are free and some of the longer accounting (AAT L3 Diploma), and childcare (Childcare L2 Certificate Intermediate) courses are free if you are in receipt of certain benefits, or if you don't have a Level 3 qualification.

Booking essential as they normally only have a few places, but often people cancel the tasters at last minute so it is worth popping there to see if you can take the place of a dropout.

Norfolk Adult Learning and Skills - Norfolk County Council

Cathedral of St John the Baptist

The Cathedral of St John the Baptist 

The Cathedral of St John the Baptist is Norwich’s Catholic Cathedral, but its doors are open to all people from any and no faith. The Cathedral is open from 7.30am until 7:30pm every day of the year.

Free entry (although donations are welcome), there are also (secular) events that take place throughout the year.

http://www.sjbcathedral.org.uk/

Walk the North Norfolk Coast Path

The North Norfolk Coast Path now runs from Hunstanton in west Norfolk round all the way to to Sea Palling on the north east Norfolk coast. Originally, the trail ended at Cromer but in December 2014, Norfolk’s first stretch of England Coast Path opened, extending the Norfolk Coast Path to Sea Palling.  The majority of this walking trail runs through the dramatic landscape of the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The Norfolk Trials website has some great circular walks, short linear walks and long linear walks, which are clearly marked and well indicated on the downloadable map.  You can also walk the whole route although not for a day-trip!

There is also an up-to-day list of other Long distance trails in Norfolk - Long distance trails - Norfolk County Council, which I hope to get around to putting on the blog soon!

Norfolk Coast Path - Norfolk County Council

Conservation Volunteering with TCV Environmental Action Team

Every week the TCV Norfolk and the Norwich Environmental Action Team goes out to protect and enhance some of Norfolk’s many fine green spaces – working in partnership with Norwich City Council, Norwich Fringe Project and many others.

At the moment, the Norwich-based team is now operating all year round on every weekday: 5 days a week (As of October 2026).

There's normally a free bus from the City Centre, and bus fares to the central meeting point are refunded.

Conservation Volunteering is super fun - I met my now best friend Debbie volunteering at Carys Meadow on a TCV Action day

If you sign up on the website, you get the details for all the midweek events - Mark's emails are hilarious and full of puns, worth signing up just for that.

TCV Environmental Action Team