Your journey starts here!

GCDA’s highly successful courses are all taught by qualified trainers and industry experts with substantial teaching experience.

We offer courses in a wide range of subjects across four areas:

Support for New Businesses
Cooking Skills
Feeding your Children

Creative & Horticultural Skills

Whether you're looking to start a new business, change career, upskill or simply challenge yourself, we’ve got the course for you.

Our unique training is interactive and practical, building skills and knowledge in the subject giving you the confidence to learn and develop.

All our training is fully funded for London residents. Please click the links below to find out more.

You can read our remote learning statement here

Support for New Businesses

We have an incredible range of courses for new businesses from Start-up training, web design, financial management, specific support for food businesses and so much more

Cooking Skills

We have loads of exciting new cooking skills courses including an introduction to working in a commercial kitchen, basic and intermediate cooking skills, cooking around the world, culinary and knife skills

Creative & Horticultural Skills

An exciting new range of courses including food growing, setting up a community garden, gardening for biodiversity and a sewing class teaching essential life skills!

Feeding your Children

Hosted in Greenwich children centres, and online, includes cooking with toddlers, managaging challenging mealtimes and introducing solids to your baby