Don’t let maths hold you back.

Face-to-face courses which aim to increase confidence with numbers - ideal for those wanting to take the first steps towards formal numeracy qualifications. Activities are designed to meet individual needs and embed a practical topic such as cooking, budgeting skills, arts and crafts and nail art.

Community Bitesize Activities will develop your interests, allow you to meet new people and help you in your everyday life. There are a wide range of activities on offer including sessions focused on music, sports, cooking, digital or crafts. Come along to as many sessions as you need with delivery by community partners and from local venues across Tees Valley.

Money Saving Maths is a three-day course covering topics on money saving ideas, including how to shop smartly, cutting household bills, budgeting, energy supplier comparisons, pitfalls of payday loans, interest rates comparisons, using credit cards effectively, eating healthy on a budget and evaluating money-saving offers.

This Numeracy for Life course features a range of multiple choice units that you can work through to build your confidence with maths. You can expect to learn maths skills that you'll use in every day life, such as calculations with money, understanding decimals and fractions, as well as recording, extracting and comparing information.

The five-week Introduction to Maths lets you revisit maths to boost your knowledge through this step-by-step course.

The Practical and Everyday Maths course is delivered over four weeks and is designed to help you gain skills to not only help you become more confident with numbers, but also apply the skills learnt in context.

The two-day Managing Your Finances course gives practical hints and tips to help manage finances within your household.

For employers, NCD can design a bespoke 18-hour course to upskill staff based on the maths used in your workplace.

NCD's community programme Fun with Maths is for anyone who would like to increase their confidence with maths, offering practical uses such as calculating paint volume needed for decorating, interest rates and more. Sessions will be held at different times and in community venues across the Tees Valley.

A range of courses teaching the maths you will need for the workplace, specifically focusing on the Construction, Warehousing and Logistics industries and supporting self-employment. You will learn to understand weights and measurements, fractions, and financial transactions. Bitesize sessions are customised to the skills you need for your industry.

Make IT Count combines numeracy skills alongside basic IT to help people improve their ability to understand and use maths in daily life. Learners will develop digital skills throughout the training, accessing both group and one to one support from a dedicated tutor.