Link to SfEP Home PageSfEP: society for editors and proofreaders – upholding editorial excellence

Honorary president: Judith Butcher Honorary vice-president: David Crystal OBE

Site map | Contact us

Current training schedule

We ask for bookings to be made four to six weeks before the date a course is to run. There may well be places after that deadline, but occasionally we have to cancel a course for lack of numbers. It is distressing if several late enquiries are received that, had they been made earlier, would have ensured the viability of a now-cancelled course. So it is to everyone's benefit if places are booked in good time.

You can download the application forms for our courses as PDF files (each approximately 100 KB) – just click on the relevant course date below. If there is no date shown, the course is not scheduled to run. If a date is shown but there is no link to a booking form, then the course is fully booked. In either of these cases, please contact the SfEP Office to find out when the course will next run.

See Booking a course for information on how to proceed further.

Courses for July–December 2010

Course Date Venue
Brush up your copy-editing 21 September 2010 BA, London
Brush up your grammar 2 October 2010 CI, Bristol
  2 November 2010 SBC, Edinburgh
  16 November 2010 BA, London
Brush up your proofreading 20 September 2010 BA, London
Copy-editing problems 15 November 2010 BA, London
Editing and proofreading music 6 November 2010 CI, Bristol
Editing mathematics    
Editing medical texts 9 December 2010 BA, London
Efficient copy-editing 7 December 2010 BA, London
Getting work with non-publishers 20 October 2010 CH, Cheshire
  8 December 2010 BA, London
Going freelance and staying there 11 November 2010 YTR, York
  2 December 2010 BA, London
Introduction to copy-editing 23 October 2010 CI, Bristol
  28 October 2010 BA, London
  4 November 2010 SBC, Edinburgh
Introduction to illustrations    
Introduction to proofreading 29 September 2010 BA, London
  16 October 2010 CI, Bristol
  27 October 2010 BA, London
  3 November 2010 SBC, Edinburgh
  10 November 2010 YTR, York
  1 December 2010 BA, London
Introduction to web editorial skills 30 September 2010 UL, London
  29 October 2010 UL, London
Negotiating effectively    
On-screen editing 1 7 September 2010 GBTC, Glasgow
  23 September 2010 HC, London
  30 November 2010 HC, London
On-screen editing 2 15 December 2010 HC, London
Professional copy-editing 26 October 2010 BA, London
Project management    
Proofreading for accreditation    
Proofreading problems 9 November 2010 YTR, York
  24 November 2010 BA, London
Training for trainers    

Venues

AJP AJP, IT Training Suite, 18 Park Row, Bristol BS1 5LJ – 0118 929 1509.
BA Booksellers Association, 272 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1BA – 020 7802 0821.
CH The Conservatory, The Windmill at Tabley, Chester Road, Tabley, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 0HW – 01565 625 885.
CI City Inn, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6BF – 0117 925 1001.
GBTC Go Business & Training Centre, Govan Suite, George House, 36 North Hanover Street, Glasgow G1 2AD – 0845 602 1249.
HC Happy Computers, Cityside House, 40 Adler Street, London E1 1EE – 020 7375 7300.
EH Erico House (SfEP Office), 93-99 Upper Richmond Road, Putney, London SW15 2TG – 020 8785 5617.
SBC Scottish Book Centre, 137 Dundee Street, Edinburgh EH11 1BG – 0131 228 6866.
UL University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU – 020 7862 8127/8.
YTR York Theatre Royal, St Leonard's Place, York YO1 7HD – 01904 658 162.

To top

For more information, check out

Course times

All SfEP courses run from 9.30am to 4.30/4.45pm except for On-screen editing 1 and 2 and the York-based courses, which run from 10am to 5pm.