Training Directory

Summary: Our City Guilds Furniture Making programme at Newark will provide you with the underpinning skills and knowledge to progress within the furniture making industry. The course is aimed at those with a passion for working with different timbers and in wanting to achieve excellent craft skills in both design and manufacture. Setting the bar high you will be surprised by what you can ultimately achieve.

Summary: With links to the design industry, collaboration with agencies, placement opportunities, and support to launch business start-ups, this course aims to develop the product designers of the future.

Summary: Learn the essential skills needed to use furniture making tools – our beginners’ course will introduce you to the importance of sharpness and how to sharpen hand tools, as well as accurate joint cutting techniques whilst making a dovetailed and tenoned English Sweet Chestnut letter rack.

Summary: This improvers’ course is aimed at students who already have a good understanding of basic furniture making skills.  Students make an elegant table in Ash using hand joints and wood machines.

Summary: Fashion and Textiles at NTU is internationally recognised for the quality of its creative, industry-ready graduates. This textile design course is unique in the UK, allowing you to explore the different areas of textile design before specialising in the creative areas of textile print, embroidery, weave and knit, as your work develops.

Summary: Our MA Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear courses provide a platform for diverse and creative thinking and design practice to challenge and drive the future of fashion and textile

Summary: The AMUSF Accredited Courses are delivered in three stages and upon completion result in the award of an AMUSF Diploma in upholstery. Each of the three stages is a qualification in its own right and is certificated separately. Each stage has a duration of 210 hours which must be completed with a 12 month period.

Summary: The broad purpose of the occupation is to produce and assemble bespoke pieces of furniture to meet individual customers’ requirements. This can cover pieces such as tables, chairs, cabinets, office furniture, kitchens and bedrooms. Bespoke Furniture Makers work with and need to understand a variety of materials – including wood, metals, glass, plastics, fabric, finishes and other relevant materials.

Summary: The broad purpose of the occupation is to create initial ideas, design concepts and plans for fitted furniture interiors and create technical drawings by hand or computer. Fitted Furniture Design Technician’s work with customers to create their perfect design for their chosen interior.

Summary: Are you looking for high quality training with outstanding resources, but don't want to stay at school or go to college? Then choose Didac Woodwise Academy. Didac are a training provider currently offering a fully funded course for 16-18 year olds to help get you work ready

Summary: A Fitted Furniture Installer is responsible for preparing and installing furniture including kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms and offices, shops, exhibitions and boat interiors. This is onsite at the customer's commercial or domestic premises. Apprentices taking this route will experience a wide variety of projects and interface closely with customers. As part of the programme, apprentices will use a range of tools and equipment to carry out the job role.

Summary: Furniture Manufacturers are skilled craftsmen/women who make pieces of furniture. They may work in a small, independent shop that produces custom furniture or in a factory that mass-produces pieces of furniture.

Summary: Bed Manufacturers work in factory environments, where the ability to work to agreed targets in terms of output and quality standards is essential. Manufacturers often work shift systems and within the seasonality of the industry. As a Bed Manufacturer, you may be involved in mattress making, or divan headboard making.

Summary: As an apprentice installer, you will be following a comprehensive training programme, which offers training in a variety of skills in the manufacture, design and installation of kitchen or bedroom furniture.

Summary: A Furniture Finisher (Polisher) will prepare and treat a wide range of timbers and man-made boards, using a range of techniques. Items to be finished could range from tables, chairs, lounge suites, cabinets, chests of drawers, kitchen units and shop fittings.

Summary: Furniture Manufacturers are skilled craftsmen/women, who make pieces of furniture. They may work in a small, independent shop that produces custom furniture or in a factory that mass-produces pieces.

Summary: As a Modern Upholsterer, you will be creating items of soft furnishings ranging from stools/headboards to full sofa suits. In each job role, you will be working with a vast range of materials, you will cover or re-cover items with materials such as leather, suede or cotton.

Summary: Wood Machinists can be employed by a range of business sectors including the furniture and construction trades to cut, shape and prepare materials providing component parts for their product range.

Summary: 3D Design BA (Hons) engenders a creative, analytical and skilful approach to the designing and making of products and furniture.

Summary: Design for Industry BA (Hons) fosters a critical, analytical and creative approach to designing products, services and experiences.

Summary: Offering the perfect blend of theory and practice in the context of business and society, the MA Design course will enable you to focus on your own specialist area of design practice.

Summary: We encourage a fresh and innovative approach to work, and students will be able to determine their own projects through the choice of modules such as: Business, Planning and Marketing CAD/CAM Design Analysis Furniture Design and Make Materials Technology Production Methods and Techniques Production Technology Visual Communication

Summary: This course introduces the basics of wood machining, cabinet making and traditional and modern methods of upholstery, giving students the opportunity to develop their skills in design and furniture making. Assessment is via assignment writing and practical projects.

Summary: We encourage a fresh and innovative approach to work, and students will be able to determine their own projects through the choice of modules such as: Business, Planning and Marketing CAD/CAM Design Analysis Furniture Design and Make Materials Technology Production Methods and Techniques Production Technology Visual Communication.

Summary: You will be employed by a company and attend Themis at Burnley College one day per week*.You will be taught in Themis’ industry standard workshops equipped with an extensive range of tools and equipment

Summary: The role of craft is continually evolving. Combining innovative processes with traditional skills and hands on making, our students develop specialist materials knowledge alongside visual language skills. You will be encouraged to challenge the traditional notions of design-craft, by investigating a wide variety of processes and exploring new ways of working with materials, objects and ideas

Summary: This dynamic Masters programme offers makers, from a wide range of disciplines, an exciting opportunity to advance their individual creative practice. You will be guided through the academic research process to support and develop your practice. 

Summary: A highly-skilled and specialist timber craft using design processes, technical drawings and workshop geometry.

Summary: Through a programme of study that explores our understanding of the material world, you will learn how to be a designer and maker of objects that enhance our daily interactions. You will develop essential skills in creative thinking and design strategy, and then apply these to challenge how you design for product and for craft.