First Steps Learning Centre

The First Steps Learning Centre is situated in the Central Library, just off the Holloway Road.   The centre offers a wide range of free courses including computers, english for speakers of other languages, literacy and personal development and employability.

If you decide to do a course with us you will have access to high quality information, advice, guidance and support to assist you to progress into further education, training, employment or voluntary work.

Course and Enrolment

Click here for details of courses in the First Steps Centre.

All courses are free and are offered to Islington residents or parents with children in Islington schools. Our courses are aimed at people who are aged 19 years or over, unemployed or low waged and receiving benefits. Please talk to the centre staff for further details about who the courses are for. To book your place on a course please call or email us. For details of courses for spring 2012  see below under Downloadable Documents..

Are you new to the centre?

Need some help and advice about what is on offer and which course is right for you? Book yourself in for a free, confidential and impartial advice session with a member of staff. Most interviews take place in the centre but we have a private space available if required. 

Address:
First Steps Learning Centre
Islington Central Library
2 Fieldway Crescent
London
N5 1PF

Learning Centre Manager: Sinead Gannon

Telephone: 020 7527 7002

Email: firststeps@isonline.org

Location: In the Central Library with its own entrance on Holloway Road (approximately 0.25 miles from Highbury Corner).

Disabled access information for the Centre can be found by clicking on the DisabledGo link in the Useful Websites section on the right hand side of the page.

Buses: 43, 271, 393

Tube:
Highbury & Islington (Victoria line)
Holloway Road (Piccadilly line)

Trains:
Highbury & Islington (North London/ Great Northern Electrics)
Drayton Park (Great Northern Electrics)