Flower Arranging - Modern - Southwell Library - Adult Learning

Create your own unique floral designs to take home each week with step by step guidance and advice.

This course is suitable for mixed abilities of with some experience wanting to refresh learning or progress more.

By the end of the course, you will:

• Have a good understanding of how to arrange flowers

• Explain how to condition and prepare flowers and foliage correctly

• Demonstrate several floristry techniques used in flower arranging

• Create different styles of floral designs to give as gifts or to decorate your home with

A resource list will be emailed to you 1 month prior to the course start date, including first session requirements:

• Oasis

• Scissors

• Florist wires

• 1 bunch of roses from the supermarket or florist

• 3 stems of long and short foliage from the garden or florist

• 1 small container to display the flower arrangement in

• A plastic tablecloth to protect the table

Funding and Fees

If you receive certain benefits, you may be able to take the course for free.
If money is stopping you from enrolling, please visit our funding page to see what help is available.

Living in England

To book and join one of our courses, you must live in England permanently and either:

• Live inside the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) area (Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire)

or

• Live outside the devolved areas listed below

You cannot enrol if you live in these devolved areas:

•    Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)
•    Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

• Greater London Authority
•    North East Combined Authority
•    South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
•    Tees Valley Combined Authority
•    West Midlands Combined Authority
•    West of England Combined Authority
•    West Yorkshire Combined Authority
•    Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority
•    York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority
•    Hull and East Yorkshire
•    Greater Lincolnshire
•    Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority
•    Cornwall Council
•    Lancashire Combined County Authority
•    Buckinghamshire

• Warwickshire

• Surrey

Residency Requirements (Additional Information)

If you live in the UK on a visa, we’ll need evidence of your visa to confirm funding. You can upload this when applying, and you’ll need to complete a short questionnaire.

Some exceptions include:

• Your visa must last until after your course ends.

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for at least 6 months while their claim is being processed.

• You are supported by your local authority under Section 23C or 23CA of the Children Act 1989, or under the Care Act 2014.

Anyone who does not meet the funding criteria would need to pay full course fees.