HCA courses support people at all levels to create better places. We aim to improve skills and best practice and increase understanding between the public, private and community sectors.

Learn at HCA - cost-effective online learning

Our site has several free courses to allow you to learn at your own pace.

Understanding Place-making Currently free, our introductory course provides a deeper understanding of place-making
Cohesion Navigator Identify the skills you'll need to help create cohesive communities
Understanding Cohesion Free course introducing cohesion and place-making
Understanding Carbon Management Explore the meaning of climate change mitigation and gain the skills and knowledge you need to tackle carbon management on a project
Carbon Navigator Learn what carbon management skills you need as part of your project role.

Face-to-face training

Developed in partnership with leading training providers, we deliver courses across England.

• Empowering Communities: Skills for the Big Society: An 3-day learning programme to help you improve community empowerment, involvement and engagement
• Creating Cohesive Communities: A one day course to inspire you to create cohesive communities in your local area, following on from our free online introductory course understanding cohesion.
• Foundation Degree in Sustainable Communities: Part-time course that provides in-depth knowledge of sustainable communities
  
• Creating Sustainable Communities Module: Flexible module for institutions, teachers and trainers to build into courses related to sustainable communities

Skills and knowledge resources

• Train & Sustain trainers toolkit: Electronic resource pack for trainers
• Place Spotlight: Ideas for improving and integrating communities
• Skills Navigator: Self-administered, online skills audit to help professionals and practitioners assess their cross-professional sustainable communities skills

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