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Fine Woodwork, Furniture Design & Making Diploma 19+ – Full Time

A two year, five day a week comprehensive course in fine woodworking. The only course of its kind in London taught by a team of industry-experienced tutors, most of whom learnt their trade at the college too.

 

The Fine Woodwork, Furniture Design & Making Diploma is an intensive and rigorous 2-year programme structured to provide students with the skills and knowledge  to progress towards a professional career in woodworking.

The programme brings together the range of skills such as joinery, wood machining, wood turning and furniture making. These accredited elements will enable students to operate to a professional standard. A strong emphasis on developing competent and confident woodworking skills – using both traditional hand tools and modern timber processing machinery – will provide students with the technical knowledge to start designing and making their own work pieces as they progress further through the course.

Taught by experienced and highly skilled tutors the course also draws on the skills and knowledge of nationally recognised furniture makers and designers and in addition, throughout the course, visits will be made to woodworking industry workshops/suppliers, exhibitions, museums, etc.

The Fine Woodwork, Furniture Design & Making course delivers a progressive development of skills, knowledge and abilities over a two year (six term) period. In terms one and two students focus on bench joinery skills. Hand skills will be developed to a high level supported by training in the use of portable powered tools and fixed wood cutting machines.

First Year Projects & Skills

  • Maintenance and sharpening of tools

  • Use of hand tools in the preparation of timber and cutting of basic joints such as halving, bridle, mortice and tenons

  • Timber selection and care of, in the making stages

  • Setting out and marking out

  • Frame and carcass construction using rebates, grooves, mortice & tenons, dovetails etc.

  • Making a small staircase

  • Making a door

During term three students will complete a design project that brings together the taught elements of the course in preparation for the 2nd year.

Second Year Projects & Skills

In the second year, students will be working towards a City & Guilds Level 3 in Furniture Design & Making.

 

Students will:

  • Make a cabinet

  • Make a chair

  • Design and make a table

Course Details

Course Duration: 5 days per week over 2 years

We operate on an academic timetable which is around 37 weeks of teaching per year

 

Teaching and Workshop Hours: 09:00 – 16:00

All lessons and teaching time occurs within these hours, however, the workshops are available to use outside of these hours providing there is a tutor supervising. Please be aware this is not guaranteed and is entirely dependent on tutor availability

 

Course Fees: £14,000 per year, £28,000 total (2026)

Course fees are payable upfront or in three instalments throughout the year. Set dates are given for each payment, and payment must be made before the beginning of each term

Student Success Stories

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