Digital Skills for Wellbeing - Arnold Library - Adult Learning

Discover how your smartphone can support your health and happiness in this course, designed to boost your digital confidence while focusing on wellbeing. Whether you're new to using digital tools or just want to explore how your phone and the online world can help you feel more organised, relaxed, and informed, this course offers a gentle and practical introduction.

Through fun, hands-on workshops, you'll learn how to make the most of trusted online resources that can support your everyday wellbeing. You’ll explore how to use the NHS website and app to find reliable health information, book appointments, and manage prescriptions. We’ll show you how YouTube can be a source of calming music, gentle exercise routines, and guided meditations. You’ll also discover a selection of free wellbeing apps to help with mood tracking, sleep, mindfulness, and staying active.

As a bonus, you’ll be introduced to the basics of artificial intelligence, using simple tools like ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot to help with everyday tasks such as meal planning and recipe ideas—making healthy living easier and more enjoyable.

Bring your own smartphone and join us and take positive steps towards digital confidence and personal wellbeing, all with the device already in your pocket.

This course, for adults, is funded by the UK Government through the Shared Prosperity Fund.

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Greater London

• Greater Manchester

• Liverpool City Region

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

• Tees Valley

• West of England

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.