Courses under £69
Follow your passion without it costing a fortune! Browse our selection of fascinating courses, all for under £69 here at City Lit.
Break a leg without breaking the bank on one of our acting courses or be transported back to the time of Ancient India or Charles Dickens with a City Lit history class. Conveniently located in the heart of Covent Garden, our central London campus boasts expert tutors, great facilities and outstanding teaching, as rated by Ofsted.
The courses span across the entire College, meaning whatever your interest, there will be an affordable class for you. Elevate your skills and enrich your mind with one of our courses under £69 today.
Learning with us is flexible, we have part-time courses available online, in person or hybrid with a time that best suits you from daytime, evening or weekends
- Drum kit tasterCourse start date: Sat 26 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Mark HuggettSpend time with our drumming tutor, meet the drum kit, sticks and practice pads supplied. Come and play. - Sing jazzCourse start date: Sat 26 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Laura ZakianLearn essential tools to sing jazz, including what to listen for in the piano accompaniment and the importance of pulse, groove and vocal technique. This day is for singers with musical experience who are new to the jazz idiom. - Mime: workshopCourse start date: Sun 27 Jul 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sean CroftThere’s so much more to Mime than the striped jumper, beret and box!
The course will cover basic techniques in Mime towards developing and creating worlds alongside opening your body up to expressionistic styles. Through technique and improvisational based classes we will play and explore some of the most renowned exercises in Mime and build on them. Engaging your imagination and developing your awareness of your body as a tool for theatre craft.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £48.00 - Contemporary dance intensiveCourse start date: Sat 16 Aug 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Francis AngolThis is a three-evening intensive in contemporary dance fusion. Learn how to express your physicality in a dynamic fashion and gain basic knowledge of the main principles of contemporary dance, with influences from other techniques. General level - suitable for both beginners and improvers. - Try it out calligraphy: modern copperplateCourse start date: Mon 8 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Veiko KespersaksThis short workshop will guide you through the basics of Modern Copperplate Calligraphy, as influenced by historical copperplate handwriting. Once the artform of expert craftsman, calligraphy is now a popular artistic outlet, flexible enough to reflect the personality, style, and creativity of every individual – everyone can learn it and have a lot of fun while doing so! Suitable for left-handers and right-handers. - Reflexology: taster workshopCourse start date: Tue 9 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Kean Street Wellbeing Centre
Experience the relaxing benefits of hand and foot reflexology and learn how to relieve stress using basic reflexology techniques.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Spanish 2 lower tasterCourse start date: Wed 3 Dec 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Roberto GallegoCome and discover what an elementary Spanish class feels like.
This course is suitable if you have studied Spanish for 1-2 years recently.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Feldenkrais: freeing the spineCourse start date: Sat 20 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Charlotte SeirbergImprove spinal suppleness and strength and discover more ease in yourself. Focusing on the movements of the spine, re-educate your neuromuscular system through gentle structured sequences of movement.
This class is delivered in person, on-site at City Lit.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00 - Becoming confident with online communication: Zoom (beginner)Course start date: Mon 22 Sep 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Are you new to Zoom? Have you started to use it but are unsure about some of its functions? Do you need to use Zoom at work, in your studies or to communicate with friends and relatives? Zoom is now as essential to communication as texts, emails, smartphones and PCs. This course will take you from the basics of being on Zoom as a participant and a host, including how to join meetings and set them up. You will learn what to do in both circumstances, what appropriate etiquette is, how to use chat and other features such as breakout rooms, how to share your screen, take control of someone else's screen and how to make sure you don't do something on Zoom that you shouldn't. By the end of this course, you will be able to comfortably host a meeting with friends or work colleagues, communicate, privately share and collaborate on projects or ideas.
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £23.00 Concession £15.00 - Nutrition to improve mood, energy and mental healthCourse start date: Fri 26 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ellie HollyEating for a happy mind: how food can influence your mood and energy levels, which foods will enhance brain function, energy levels and positive thought and which will do the opposite! - Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £55.00 Concession £45.00
- Getting started in digital skills: becoming confident on your computer and online (complete beginner)Course start date: Fri 9 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Are you completely new to computers and the Internet? This course will help you get started on using a computer and the internet. You will learn all the basics and the key terms you need to starting becoming confident on a computer and online. You will learn about different files and how to create and save them. You will learn how to write and send simple letters and emails. You will develop your internet skills so you can find information and complete online forms. Finally, you do all of this while learning how to remain safe online and to keep your files secure.
This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here
Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £50.00 - An introduction to poetryCourse start date: Sat 25 Oct 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Suzannah V. EvansCome and revel in the possibilities of expression and form offered by poems across time, guided by lively group discussion and tutor expertise. - Full fee £49.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £32.00
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