Explore with The North-East Centre for Lifelong Learning

Unique to the North-East, our national award-winning Explore programme is a revolution in lifelong learning: learning for learners and for the love of learning.

For a monthly subscription, Explore lets you choose from a huge range of lectures, short courses and discussion seminars across a wealth of subjects delivered by expert tutors.
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We offer four seasons of programme a year, with more than 1500 hours of provision in over 30 distinct subjects taught by 45 expert tutors.
Attend Open Sessions as you choose. Book a place on a longer course. Use your priority booking. (And there's no compulsory assessment)
Explore is all you can learn, the way you learn, from around £5 a week or less.