CAST AI Courses
Free UK email courses and workshops that help charities get started with AI.
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Great for
- UK charities and community groups that want gentle, practical AI learning
- Leaders who need to guide their team on AI
- Staff who prefer short weekly steps to long courses
- Free
- Short weekly steps fit a busy week
- Written for UK charity context
Watch out for
- Organisations outside the UK
- Staff wanting a certificate
- Email-based, with no certificate
- UK-focused
- Not interactive like a live course
Problems it solves
About CAST AI Courses+
CAST (Centre for Acceleration of Social Technology) offers free, plain-English AI learning for UK charities and civil society groups. Its self-serve courses arrive as weekly emails with activities, including Getting Started with AI, a version for senior leaders and a follow-on for people supporting colleagues. It also runs free online Introduction to AI workshops (dates run to March 2027) and shares a library of AI experiments from other charities.
Pricing: All courses and workshops listed on the CAST page are free.
Key features+
AI features+
Teaches AI basics, policy creation and practical experiments in charity settings.
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