Free Resources
Educational & Lifestyle Resources + our blog posts with free resources.
Page last updated 7 July 2021
Since these pages aren’t run or maintained by us, we can’t guarantee their content. Not all free resources are equal, we welcome feedback on your experience if you try any of the links.
Educational Resources
Alison is a free online learning resource founded in Galway, Ireland, in 2007. “The better we do, the more good we can do. “
Alison is free of charge. But it’s still a business – albeit a socially-focused one. A social enterprise making money through advertising, merchandise, and the sale of Certificates and Diplomas if you pass and choose to buy one.
Alison believe that through education, everyone has the power to change their lives, and ultimately the world, for the better. Innovation, technology and creative collaboration with knowledge experts worldwide are the foundations of Alison’s commitment to delivering universal access to education for free. Their services and products deliver freedom to learn and the tools to succeed – enabling employers, learners, publishers and employees to empower themselves and others.
Alison was founded by Alison CEO, Mike Feerick. Mike is a businessman, but one with a difference. He believes in social impact, and that you can build a financially successful business focused on meeting a huge global social need, making education and skills training more accessible for everyone. He invites anyone who believes that too, to support the Alison mission.
Access the free courses here:
Website: https://alison.com/
BBC Teach: is home to thousands of free curriculum-mapped videos, arranged by age-group and subject.
BBC Teach Skillset: A collection of free videos and downloadable worksheets to help adult learners improve their reading, writing and numeracy skills and to help adult learners develop essential skills for the world of work.
Whether you’re at home or at school, you can use BBC Teach for free. If you are outside the UK or Crown Dependencies, you will not be able to access the content. Unfortunately, this includes British holdings and institutions abroad.
- Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach
- Adult Resources Page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/skillswise
Free Learning Portals at KS2, KS3, GCSE & A Level, for students, teachers and parents.
Seneca: is home to hundreds of free curriculum focussed learning courses including revision
Free: fun ways to learn and improve study
- Website: https://senecalearning.com/en-GB/
- Free Courses listings: https://app.senecalearning.com/courses
TES started out in print more than 100 years ago as The Times Educational Supplement
To support parents and guardians with structuring and delivering home learning for children, we’ve gathered a collection of teacher-created learning resources designed to engage both primary and secondary students and help them learn and study outside of their usual classroom environment.
All of these resources are completely free to download and use and include lessons, worksheets, workbooks and activities across a multitude of subject disciplines, ranging from EYFS to KS4 (GCSE). With these resources, you can be confident that students will remain engaged and challenged throughout this period of social distancing and isolation.
Access the free resources here:
Website: https://www.tes.com/
Resources Page: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/teacher-essentials/home-learning
Lifestyle Resources
Helping You to Help Yourself. Evidence based, tried and tested, user friendly and widely recommended and used.
The award winning Living Life to the Full course has changed countless lives. Recommended by major charities and widlely used within health and social care services.
Resources are made available free of charge from ‘live life to the full’ for personal individual use in your own life or practice in health, education, charity and social care sectors only, and may not be used for any commercial purpose.
You can access the free resources from this site here:
Site: https://llttf.com/
Resource Page: https://llttf.com/resources/
Credentials: Dr Chris Williams Emeritus Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow
Reliable Resources recommended by Parents and Professionals
The aim of HappyMaps is to signpost parents to existing resources on mental health for their families and most of these are relevant for parents wherever they might live.
Help Directory https://www.happymaps.co.uk/help-directory
Apps for Mental Health https://www.happymaps.co.uk/age-group/self-help-for-young-people2/best-apps-for-mental-health
Self-help for Young People https://www.happymaps.co.uk/age-group/self-help-for-young-people2
Email your suggestions for improving SAM – support@sam-app.org.uk
Email SAM App if interested in partnering with UWE on research and development of SAM and related projects – info@sam-app.org.uk
App Website: https://sam-app.org.uk/
UWE, Bristol Collaboration site info: https://www1.uwe.ac.uk/et/csct/research/samanxietymanagementmobile.aspx
Our Posts with Free Resources
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Spoon Theory
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Louise’s sea and landscapes
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