Free Courses

You may be able to enrol on our Skills for Work or Essential Skills (Skills for Life) courses for free. The below article details eligibility criteria for each set of courses

Please note that the Low Wage waiver is only offered on Essential Skills (Skills for Life) courses and the Risk of Redundancy waiver is only offered on Skills for Work courses.

1) Business, technology & communication skills (Skills for Work) may be FREE for you if you are:

1. a permanent resident in London/England and you have lived in the UK or EU for the last 3 years;

OR

2. are a citizen of the UK or a country within the EU;   

AND one or more of the following applies:

a) You live in London and are at risk of redundancy. Before you enrol, you need to self-declare via email that your job is at risk of redundancy (please send this to infoline@citylit.ac.uk). Please be aware that if you have already been made redundant you will not be eligible, however, one of the below options may apply to you

Before you call us to enrol, please click on the following link to create a student account on our website - Customer Login | City Lit - London

When you are ready to enrol please call the enrolment team on 020 7831 7831

b) You receive one of the below benefits. You must self-declare that you receive the benefit when you call us to enrol:

* Your take home pay (disregarding Universal Credit payments and other benefits) is less than £343 a month (sole benefit claim) or £549 a month (benefit claim with partner).

- If you receive Jobseeker's Allowance, Employment Support Allowance or Universal Credit you must give us your National Insurance number (you can do this over the phone when you enrol or email it to us at infoline@citylit.ac.uk). We cannot enrol you until you have provided us with this

- You must be enrolling on the course(s) to gain employment or to find more sustainable employment

Before you call us to enrol, please click on the following link to create a student account on our website - Customer Login | City Lit - London

When you are ready to enrol please call the enrolment team on 020 7831 7831

You may also be entitled to a free course if you hold other immigration statuses. 

Browse our full range of Skills for Work courses here: https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/vm/skills-for-work

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2) Essential Skills - English, Maths, ESOL and Digital Skills (Skills for Life) may be FREE for you if you are:

1. a permanent resident in England and you have lived in the UK or EU for the last 3 years;

OR

2. are a citizen of the UK or a country within the EU;   

AND one or more of the following applies:

a) You are on Low Income

You are employed and you earn less than £21,157.50

When you enrol, you need to give us either (i) a pay slip dated within 3 months of the course start date or (ii) a current employment contract that shows your gross salary.

You must also show us a recent bank statement that confirms your monthly salary.

If you are self-employed and on a low income you must provide the following:

i) a copy of your latest tax return.

ii) One of the following forms of evidence:

• Personal tax calculation / computation statement from HMRC
• Statement of accounts
• Accountant’s letter
• Annual tax summary

Your evidence must be provided before you can enrol and must be in one of the following formats

-PDF

-JPG

-DOC (.DOCX)

Please do not send password protected documents

Before you call us to enrol, please click on the following link to create a student account on our website - Customer Login | City Lit - London

When you are ready to enrol please call the enrolment team on 020 7831 7831

b) You receive one of the below benefits. You must self-declare that you receive the benefit when you call us to enrol:

* Your take home pay (disregarding Universal Credit payments and other benefits) is less than £343 a month (sole benefit claim) or £549 a month (benefit claim with partner).

- If you receive Jobseeker's Allowance, Employment Support Allowance or Universal Credit you must give us your National Insurance number (you can do this over the phone when you enrol or email it to us at infoline@citylit.ac.uk). We cannot enrol you until you have provided this to us

- You must be enrolling on the course(s) to gain employment or to find more sustainable employment

Before you call us to enrol, please click on the following link to create a student account on our website - Customer Login | City Lit - London

When you are ready to enrol please call the enrolment team on 020 7831 7831

You may also be entitled to a free course if you hold other immigration statuses. 

Browse our full range of Skills for Work courses here: https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/vm/skills-for-work