Wendy Shorter Interiors Upholstery & Soft Furnishings Training Centre

Quality and Excellence in Teaching is at the heart of our training. We are a multi awards winning training centre and recognised by Ofsted as deliverying good practice in upholstery and soft furnishings. In March 2014 we received the Marsh Heritage Crafts Trainers Awards; May 2013 we received the Craft Skills Awards for encouraging craft skills. In July 2012 all our tutors were awarded Certificates of Excellence by the Worshipful Company of Upholders. In November 2011 we were awarded Outstanding Training Provider of the Year. In 2010 the Women in Furnishings Awards: Inspirational Woman of the Year and the Hertfordshire Training Centre of the Year 2008: Special Recognition Award.

We are an Approved Training Provider for the National Skills Academy for Materials, Production and Supply (NSA MPS) and are members of the Association of Master Upholsterers and Soft Furnishers (AMUSF) delivering their suite of qualifications. We offer a range of accredited, day and evening leisure classes and short beginners courses.

We pride ourselves in the quality of work that our students achieve and a high proportion receive credits and distinctions for their work with one third of our past students now working for themselves or for other upholsterers including royal warrant holders, interior designers and members of the AMUSF.

Wendy Shorter is the author of "Professional Soft Furnishings"

View my website http://www.wendyshorterinteriors.co.uk/