Online Safety - Bethesda Church - Adult Learning

About this course

Whether you’re new to the internet or want to feel more secure online, this friendly, one-session course will help you use the digital world safely and with confidence.

You’ll explore practical ways to protect your personal information, create strong passwords, recognise secure websites, and understand your rights and responsibilities online. We’ll also explain current online safety rules and regulations in a clear, simple way.

The session focuses on real-life situations, helping you spot risks like phishing, unsafe websites and misleading messages - and what to do if something goes wrong. No prior knowledge is needed.

By the end, you’ll feel informed, confident and better equipped to stay safe online. Learners may bring their own device if they wish, but it’s not required. Refreshments available.

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

Booking your place and fee information

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.