free business courses
- Selling and supplying goods
- Understand what your obligations are when a consumer buys goods from you free reference guide
- CTSI, Chartered Trading Standards Institute
- Consumer vulnerability free for businesses to attend
- Session 1 – 27. April 2026, 10:00 – 11:30
- Session 2 – 22. June 2026, 10:00 – 11:30
- free to book
- Update on Major Changes to Package Travel Law in 2026 as well as the legal requirements for advertising and selling all forms or travel and holidays
- Safer Business Network
- Sponsored support of all Whitechapel based businesses in Tower Hamlets, who join them, free access to the ShopSafeAlert app.
- Free training for WAVE champions, staff and licensed business owners in Ask for Angela scheme.

free from our partners and recommended providers:
learn how to use new tech, get online, home safety, scam prevention. One course from ProtectUK comes with a SIA approved certificate free of charge.
Learn in your own speed and time. Use phones, tablets, laptops for beginners. Free course from us on demand
- Once only courses check our event calendar
- Fire Safety at home
- ACAS e-learning free courses for new managers, team-leaders and employees, create account
- Acas Codes of Practice — Bullying and harassment — Contracts of employment and written statements — Discipline and grievance — Equality, diversity and inclusion — Managing conflict — Managing people
- National Crime Agency CEOP courses
- for professionals and parents/carers
- for children aged 4-7, 8-10, 11-18
- The National Crime Agency’s CEOP Education team aim to help protect children and young people from online child sexual abuse
- Department for Education
- Good Things Foundation
- Learn my way, free online digital skills learning platform
- Find local support to get online
- Swerve the Scammers with Virgin Media O2 – Virgin Media O2
- Artificial Intelligence | Artificial Intelligence | Good Things Foundation Learning
- NBCC National Business Crime Centre
- Free Retailers Crime Prevention toolkit
- Shopworker training videos
- disruptive and antisocial behaviour
- Saying No
- Dealing and interacting with suspected thieves
- Personal safety and de-escalation.
- link to course
- Shopworker safety guidance.
- ProtectUK e-learning – mayor up-date on courses, filed exercises – real-world scenarious
- ACT e-Learning
- award-winning includes courses for awareness, education, security and various religions.
- Act for local authorities
- ACT in a BOX
- ACT in a BOX is an interactive exercising experience which enables businesses to rehearse and explore their response to fictional terrorist incidents at or near their premises.
- Digital tool kits
- Education learning
- ACT e-Learning
- Prevent training
- The Home Office is making a free online Prevent Training course available for you to do. Click here to get started.
- NSPCC
- NCSC – National Cyber Security Centre
- Exercise in a box helps organisations test and practise their response to a cyber attack. It is completely free and you don’t have to be an expert to use it.
- Metropolitan Police
The little Guides to Frauds and Scams- learn in audio, download books to read, animated or bitesize
- Friends Against Scams
Friend – Champion – Marshalls – Scam ambassadors
- Friends Against Scams is designed to inspire action, highlight the scale of the problem, change the perceptions of why people become victims of scams and make scams a community, regional and national topic. Practitioner resources
- Young Friends Against Scams – teaching pupils in schools and youth new resources available, free to sign up as Scam champion, only then you can get the Young Friends resources.
- book a 30 min session with the scam champion to discuss your situation for online safety.
Get Safe Online
- Safe CST online webinars
- SAFE shares CST’s security knowledge with groups outside the Jewish community that are vulnerable to violence, extremism or hate crime.
- Suzy Lamplugh Trust
- Hate Crime Champion & VAWG
- Tower Hamlets Council Public Protection & Integrated Enforcement Division, provides free hate crime champion training once a year. Please contact hatecrime@towerhamlets.gov.uk for details.
- VAWG champion and other training courses delivered. Contact vawg@towerhamlets.gov.uk for details
- Domestic Abuse
- Free course : Awareness of forced marriage, click to book
- Free course : Recognising and preventing FGM, click to book
- Lifesaver
- interactive films show you how to perform CPR and help a person until ambulance arrives.
- British Red Cross First Aid for adults
- This workshop is for community members or non-profit organisations. It’s not for paid staff, individuals, parents, those seeking baby and child-specific first aid, or groups without significant need.
- Future Learn
- Provide free life-skill courses. Browse their online catalogue here
- Digital skills, cyber security, AI, programming, study in UK, etc. courses vary at times.
- Awaab’s Law
- Landlord learning hub Government Ombudsman
- Make things Right tenants
- government guidance for tenants
- HMRC
- Housing Ombudsman
- Faith Security Training
- A new training scheme for faith communities in England & Wales. Learn how to reduce the risk of hate crime, anti-social behaviour, and serious threats.
- in-person, online event or eLearning all free to attend
- contact@cdssupport.uk
- CDS Defence & Security book online

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