How to Set up a Secret Tea Room - Online Courses - Adult Learning

Interested in finding out how to set up a secret tearoom? A secret tearoom involves hosting afternoon tea events in your own home or pop-up location e.g. the cricket pavilion.

All you need is a passion for baking, a love of afternoon tea, and an interest in setting up your own business.

The course will cover all the practicalities of setting up and running a secret tearoom, from what equipment you need to marketing your events and keeping accounts. What you need to go ahead including food safety training, registering with environmental health, insurance and much more. Also, some top tips on menu planning, how to prepare in advance and managing the event.

The course will help you decide if running a secret tearoom is right for you. If it is, the key things to do to get started and how to run an event.

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.