Become a florist faster

Your Journey Can Start the Moment You Enrol

Book your place, pay in full, and start learning today.

Why wait until September to begin your dream career?

As soon as you've secured your place, you'll receive immediate access to our exclusive online film library, packed with over 100 professionally filmed demonstrations, techniques and practical projects.

Start creating in your own home. Practise fundamental techniques, explore design styles and build confidence before you even walk through our Academy doors.

Then, when you join us for your intensive six-week classroom experience, you're already feel more prepared. Instead of spending valuable classroom time learning the basics, our tutors can help you refine, elevate and perfect your work to a much higher standard.

It's a smarter way to learn.

Experiement at home. Develop in class. Progress twice as fast.

An Intensive Learning Experience Like No Other

The British Academy of Floral Art Premium Career Changer Programme has been created for complete beginners, career changers and aspiring professional florists who want exceptional training without committing to a traditional one or two-year college course.

This is one of the UK's most comprehensive floristry programmes, supported intensive practical tuition and access to real time filmed demonstrations by master florists to give you the skills, confidence and commercial knowledge to build a successful career.

Whether your ambition is to work in a flower shop, become a freelance florist, launch your own business, specialise in weddings or funerals, or compete in the floristry world, we'll help you build the foundations to succeed.

Everything Included during your 6 weeks at the Academy- Simply arrive and enjoy learning.

Your course includes:

• All fresh flowers and foliage including seasonal and British flowers

• Sundries and mechanics

• Containers and floral mediums

• A handly tool bag and starter toolkit to keep

• A signed copy of Tina Parkes' Funeral Flowers – The Complete Journey or Gregor Lersch's Principles of Floral Design

• One year's access to over 100 online training films

• Facebook community support

• Opportunities to volunteer on Academy events and gain valuable experience

Everything has been designed so you can focus on learning, creating and enjoying every step of your journey.

What You'll Learn

Week 1 – Mastering Hand-Tied Designs- these are designs that are created in your hand with the classics being the bouquets you may buy from a floristry shop, but this construction method if perfecr for funeral, wedding and events.

Develop over fifteen commercial hand-tied designs, including garden style bouquets, meadow designs, contemporary wrapping techniques, modern gifting bouquets and future floral trends.

Week 2 – Arrangements & Sustainable Mechanics

Create designs from small gift arrangements through to large statement pieces while mastering both traditional and modern sustainable mechanics including Renewal, FibreFloral, Phoam, pin holders, kenzans, sand, copper mesh, moss, tubes and many more.

Week 3 – Funeral Floristry

Build confidence creating traditional tribute work alongside contemporary sustainable funeral designs, discovering new opportunities within today's changing funeral industry.

Week 4 – Wedding Flowers

Design bridal bouquets using both traditional and modern construction methods, alongside bridesmaids' flowers, wearable flowers, buttonholes, corsages, floral jewellery and contemporary wedding mechanics.

Week 5 – The Heart of Floral Design

Understand why beautiful designs work by exploring proportion, balance, focal placement, colour harmony, trends and design theory that will transform the way you arrange flowers.

Week 6 – Building Your Floristry Business

Learn how to price profitably, market your business, source flowers, work with suppliers, manage costs, understand insurance and health & safety, and build a floristry business that works for you.

You'll also complete mock assessments and receive dedicated examination preparation before your practical assessments.

Why Choose the British Academy of Floral Art?

Our Director, Tina Parkes, has written qualifications for City & Guilds and has spent decades helping students build successful floristry careers.

The British Academy of Floral Art is recognised by the British Florist Association for its complete professional training pathway from beginner through to Master Florist.

Our teaching team includes internationally respected British and Dutch Master Florist and the prestigious American Institute of Floral Designers (AIFD) qualification plus a Uk Floristry Guild judge, giving students access to a truly world-class learning experience.

More Than a Course

When you join the Academy, you become part of a supportive community.

Students travel from across the UK and overseas to study with us because they want more than a qualification—they want confidence, inspiration and a clear pathway into professional floristry.

Our purpose-built rural Academy provides a welcoming learning environment where creativity flourishes, friendships are formed and every student is encouraged to develop their own unique style.

From your very first online lesson to your final assessment, we're here to help you become a confident, knowledgeable and adaptable florist, ready to build a rewarding future with flowers.

Your floristry journey starts today—not on the first day of class.

British Academy of Floral Art

The dates of the September 2026 course are; Monday to Friday 9.30am to 4pm

Sept 7/8/9/10/11- focus on Handtied designs -garden, meadow, modern, trending and future styles plus wrapping

14/15/16/17/18 Focus on arrangements - small to large, wide range of mediums including new products like Renewal, FibreFloral & Phoam plus traditional- pin holders/kenzens, sand, copper mesh, tubes etc

21/22/23/24/25 Foucs on Funeral work- traditional skills including basing plus eco friendly designs, symapthy and new opportunities in the development of funerals

28/29/30/1/2 October Focus on all things bridal party- wedding bouquets with modern and traditional methods, bridesmaids, wearables- wired, glued and tied

5/6 Heart of design- exploring how design theory can help you with know how to place your flowers

7/8 Business course- support you in promotion. management and profitablility of your business

9 Mock exam

15/16 Exam prep and exam

The most in-depth course available that supports you becoming the best florist you can be without the one or two year long commitment to a traditional college course.

Join us and we will help your bloom into a florist who is confident, knowledgeable and adaptable.