Six & Nine Week Classes
Join a supportive jewellery class where you can learn at your own pace, develop new skills, and create beautiful handmade pieces.
Skill Level: Beginner / Intermediate
Workshop Type: Group, multi-day class
Time: 12:30-3pm, 1-3:30pm & 6:30-9pm
Location: Studio Budgie Galore, Sheffield
Price: £180-£270 (includes sundries and refreshments – core materials purchased separately)
Who are our classes suitable for?
Our weekly classes welcome all skill levels, from beginners to experienced makers. Students complete projects independently with tutor support, progressing at their own pace.
For beginners, we cover health and safety and basic jewellery-making techniques in your first class. In week 2, you have the option to create a silver ring, and you can expect to produce several pieces of jewellery throughout the term.
If you have more experience, we will support you with challenging projects to help achieve your goals. We can help you to design your own jewellery and even help you to create collections for sale. You can learn advanced techniques in our one-day workshops and skills taster courses; these offer a chance to learn a new skill for ongoing practice in weekly classes.
What will you make?
Students generally start by crafting smaller items such as rings, bangles, pendants, brooches, and earrings. With increased experience, they progress to creating larger pieces including bowls, spoons, Christmas decorations, wedding jewellery, and gifts. Our weekly classes teach saw piercing, soldering, forming, texturing, polishing, and basic stone setting techniques. Students typically work in silver, copper and brass but you can also work in gold if you wish.
Our jewellery making facilities.
We have a well-equipped traditional jewellery workshop with a good variety of machinery and hand tools. We also have a good selection of specialist tools. Students work at their own individual jewellery bench, we have separate soldering areas and larger communal workbenches.
The cost
Our weekly classes cost £180 for 6 weeks or £270 for 9 weeks, we include consumables such as saw blades, solder, and other sundries, into our pricing. Tea and coffee are also included. Materials are purchased in addition -as a guide you can expect to pay about £5-10 for materials to make a simple silver ring, £15-20 for a silver bangle.
Over 6 weeks we would expect you to make 2/3 pieces depending on how complicated and detailed your designs are. You can stay within budget by creating smaller pieces in silver or using more affordable materials like copper and brass for larger pieces. Everyone pays for what they use. Materials and findings are available for you to purchase in class. We also advise on suppliers.
How to join
You can book online via the website or please get in touch if you would like to talk about joining a class. Our weekly classes can also be purchased as a gift, we can create a personalised gift voucher for you.
Booking and Cancellation Policy
Weekly Classes
- Your booking fee secures your place, either paid via our website or by bank transfer- we cannot reserve places without payment. Your booking is only secure once a 50% deposit has been paid or payment in full.
- If you have chosen to pay by direct debit, your place in our classes is secure and booked.
- If we cancel or alter the time or location of a class you will be offered a full refund or the option to switch to another class.
