What we’re about
The Goodlife Centre provides interesting practical ‘hands on’ workshops where everyone can gain new skills and enjoy expanding their confidence and abilities. All classes are open to men and women and are intended to teach skills to beginners and are not intended as trade training courses. We do not test or evaluate – so you can relax while you learn.
Our workshop leaders are all experts in their field and enjoy passing on their knowledge in an informal and safe environment. In any course, you will learn by practice and enjoy the support of fellow classmates. The classes are small, which makes plenty of time for one on one learning.
Some of the evening workshops incorporate on going learning. You can return to increase your level of understanding.
If you are frustrated by your own inability to tackle a task, or resentful of having to pay someone to take care of simple home maintenance – welcome. We know how annoying it is to have to wait till some handy side kick can get round to the tasks you wish would just get done.
For many who spend their days typing at a keyboard or in a job with abstract goals, the level of satisfaction from learning a practical skill is a wonderful stress buster after an unfulfilled day.
If you are a DIY phobic, a bit wary or a Gung Ho ‘Let me at it’ type, our small practical classes aim to fast track you through the basics, guided by professionals who will share their expertise to instill you with the confidence to go it alone.
If you hanker for more knowledge about maintaining your property or would just love to learn more skills – Come on down.
Please contact us via our website to ask any questions.
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Upcoming events (4+)
See all- BASIC PRACTICAL ELECTRICS – ON DEMAND ONLINE WORKSHOPLink visible for attendees£75.00
Full details and registration via our website ➡️ https://www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/events/basic-practical-electrics-on-demand-online-workshop-60
⋆⋆⋆Online session: £75
Perfect for people who live too far away from our centre in London, or anyone who prefers to take in information by watching more than once.
Settle down and enjoy three consecutive online videos with our expert and entertaining DIY tutor Moira Tighe who will help you demystify simple domestic electrical tasks you can take on safely without electrical training in ‘Part P’ qualifications. If you are very wary of how to perform ‘like for like’ replacements of switches and socket plates, this set of videos will show you how.
If your knowledge of electricity is a hazy memory of a long past physics class, Let Moira (‘DIY Tighe’ as The Times has referred to her) explain all the mysteries in a non-complicated, practical and entertaining manner
By the end of the videos, which you can watch for up to three months, we hope you have a wider DIY vocabulary and feel confident enough to tackle simple domestic electrical tasks that are permitted without any electrical training.
The videos are split into bite-size portions to binge-watch or absorb one at a time.
With your registration, you will find a link to a PDF set of notes with the names of all the tools and diagrams used in the sessions. You can print this out and refer to it while you watch.
Access to your online course is available instantly after purchase.
- DIY TILING – ON DEMAND ONLINE WORKSHOPLink visible for attendees£75.00
Full details and registration via our website ➡️ https://www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/events/diy-tiling-on-demand-online-workshop-59/
⋆⋆⋆Perfect for people who live too far away from our centre in London, or anyone who prefers to take in information by watching more than once.
Settle down and enjoy three consecutive online videos, which you can watch for up to three months, with our expert and entertaining DIY tutor Moira Tighe who will help you demystify the methodical but creative world of tiling. The information given is the basic principles for both wall and floor tiling using domestic-size tiles.
The videos are split into bite-size portions to binge-watch or absorb one at a time.
With your registration, you will find a link to a PDF with the names of all the tools and the information used in the sessions. You can print this out and refer to it while you watch.
Access to your online course is available instantly after purchase.
- DIY DRILLS – ON DEMAND ONLINE WORKSHOPLink visible for attendees£75.00
Full details and registration via our website ➡️ https://www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/events/diy-drills-on-demand-online-workshop-26/
⋆⋆⋆Online session: £75
Practice box (optional): £35In response to many requests to offer our workshops outside central London, we now offer our popular ‘DIY Drills’ workshop as a series of online sessions to watch at home (which you may watch again for up to three months).
To add a practical ‘drill alongside us’ aspect to your online experience and to enable you to test your skills on something other than your precious home, we offer a practice box of the key materials we use in the course that we can send to you anywhere in the UK.
In these five detailed sessions, we show you how to tackle lots of basic home tasks that need a drill to accomplish. This course is perfect for new homeowners who have just realised that the purchase didn’t include a landlord and for anyone who is tired of waiting for someone else to get round to those little jobs around the house. It’s an empowering life skill for everyone.
This course will empower you to become confident when drilling into wood, brick and tile without the fear of damaging your walls or hitting water or electricity. You will be able to hang anything on any wall- curtains, hooks, blinds, pictures, shelves and even heavier objects like TVs and cabinets.
Print out the accompanying course notes and settle down to enjoy five sessions of learning using a link to an online course featuring our expert and entertaining DIY tutor Moira Tighe who will help you demystify the maddening and frustrating world of attaching things to any wall.
You will be led along a path that will unveil the mysteries of drill bits, wall fixings and screws. We will show you how to detect what lies behind the walls of your home. You don’t need muscle. You need ‘know-how’.
- FOLLOW-ON WOODWORKThe Goodlife Centre, London£1,440.00
Bookable via our website ➡️ https://www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/events/follow-on-woodwork-2/
⋆⋆⋆Directed at those people who have completed one of our longer woodwork courses, or those with confident woodwork skills, we offer an eleven-day week opportunity to build an individual project.
During this course, run by experienced carpenter/joiner/furniture maker Ruth Thomson, you will learn how to manage a practical project from sketching it, making a technical drawing, writing a cutting list, costing, marking out and construction to produce a piece of wood furniture.
The group will visit a timber yard to learn how to select lengths of soft woods.
You will learn the safe use and versatility of a router, a biscuit jointer, a jigsaw and other power tools as needed and learn when and how to make jigs to help fabricate accurate shapes. Using basic workshop machines including a bandsaw and a belt sander, as well as classic hand tools, you will cut and assemble and then learn how to sand, glue and finish your project to completion.
We are happy to discuss your personal project if you already have something in mind. There is a size limitation due to time constraints and project storage. Call Alison on 0207 7607613 or send a photo or sketch to info@thegoodlifecentre.co.uk
Each learner will pay for their own materials. We can take delivery of timber if externally sourced. Please note that we cannot handle MDF in the workshop as the dust requires special extraction and respiratory equipment. Plywood or solid timber will be pre-machined for you on our planer thicknesser and table saw.
