Practical AI training for Leicester teams, delivered in person at your office or live online. Built around your real work, taught in plain English.
The Oxford AI School delivers practical AI training for businesses across Leicester and Leicestershire, in person at your office or live online. Sessions are hands-on inside the first ten minutes and built around the tools your team already pays for: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot.
Leicester is a working city with an unusually broad industrial base for its size: textile and garment manufacturing, one of the largest food manufacturing concentrations in the country, and a distribution sector built around the M1, the M69 and the vast warehousing at Magna Park. Add two universities, Space Park Leicester and a dense professional core in the city centre, and you have a lot of businesses whose day is dominated by documents — and very few that have been shown what AI does with them.
The big consultancies fly in and lecture. We come in and get your team working. That distinction matters in Leicester, where the useful work is specific: a garment manufacturer assembling audit evidence, a food producer writing to a supermarket specification and labelling rules, a logistics operator explaining a delayed load to twenty customers before lunch, an accountant in the Cultural Quarter turning a year of messy records into something a client will read. None of that needs a strategy deck. It needs someone to sit with the team and do it with them.
Every session also covers using AI safely: the data that must never go into a public tool, the checks that keep output trustworthy, and simple written guidelines that keep your Leicester team on the right side of UK GDPR. Most attendees save 10 or more hours per person every week once AI becomes part of how they work.
Leicester and Leicestershire teams can compare our AI training for businesses, review the practical Basic AI Training curriculum, and put clear safeguards in place with the AI Policy Workshop.
We deliver in person right across Leicester and Leicestershire, and live online for teams working from several sites.
Every session is hands-on and tailored to your work. This is the kind of thing your team walks out able to do.
Anyone can watch a recorded course, and most of your team never will. Put a trainer in the room and something changes: questions get asked, real tasks get finished, and everybody leaves on the same page.
We are based in Witney, Oxfordshire, and Leicester is a straightforward run up the M40 and M1, so an in-person day here is routine rather than an expedition. You provide a meeting room; we bring everything else.
We train on the actual specifications, delivery notes, claims, quotes and client files your Leicester team deals with, so the skills transfer the moment we leave the building.
Everyone hears the same guidance and agrees the same AI ground rules in one room. No stragglers, no quiet confusion, nobody improvising with a client's data in the dark.
Most Leicester businesses have the licences already. The gap is knowing which tool suits which job, so that is where we start.
The general-purpose workhorse. Projects, custom instructions, file analysis, and the habits that keep it honest.
The one we reach for on long documents, careful drafting and anything with a contract or a policy in it.
The path of least resistance for Microsoft 365 businesses. Copilot in Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams, with the security your IT team wants.
For Google Workspace teams, plus image and video generation for marketing and internal comms.
Research with citations. Ideal for market scans, competitor checks and anything you will have to defend in a meeting.
These are the skills that separate teams getting real value from AI from teams who tried it once and gave up.
Prompt engineering is a simple skill dressed up in a technical name. Give the tool a role, a task, the context it cannot guess, and the format you want back, and the quality jumps immediately. We teach that four-part structure, then practise it on the emails, reports and spreadsheets your team brought with them.
By the end of the day your Leicester team has a small library of prompts that genuinely work, written down and shared, so the quality of the output stops depending on who happens to be doing the task.
Context management is where the real time is won or lost. It is deciding what to load into a conversation, what to keep out, when to start a fresh one, and how to keep the documents a tool works from up to date.
Teams juggling several clients, sites or product lines feel this immediately: once context is managed properly, you stop re-explaining your business every single morning.
Every session can be delivered in person at your Leicester office or live online. Prices exclude VAT.
AI basics, prompting and the core tools, hands-on. Everyone leaves already using AI on a real task.
Everything in the intro, plus document and image creation, projects, and AI for marketing and comms.
Train your team and leave with your own written AI acceptable use policy, approved tool list and staff guidelines, built for UK GDPR.
In-person delivery across Leicester and Leicestershire is included, not a surcharge. Takeaway materials and follow-up support come as standard. Need something different? We build custom curricula too — see all programmes and pricing.
Your staff are already using AI. The only question is whether they are doing it inside rules you have written down.
Somebody in your business pasted a client email into a chatbot last week. Nobody signed anything and nobody agreed it was allowed. If you handle customer data, and almost every business does, then unwritten AI rules are a risk sitting on your register with nobody’s name against it.
The AI Policy Workshop is a full day for up to ten people at your Leicester office or online. You leave with your own written AI acceptable use policy, your approved tools agreed, your data red line drawn and gatekeepers named, plus the training that makes staff able to follow it.
We also cover the governance side that boards and clients increasingly ask about: risk management, record-keeping, and how you would demonstrate that an AI-assisted decision was checked by a person. Our guides to AI governance, trustworthy AI and the NIST AI RMF and compliance, auditing and explainability set out the approach in full.
We tailor the session to your sector, because the work, the paperwork and the risks are not the same across Leicester and Leicestershire.
For the makers, garment manufacturers and food producers across Leicester, Loughborough, Hinckley and Melton Mowbray, where the paperwork grows faster than the order book.
For the operators along the M1 and M69 and around Magna Park, where margins are thin and the admin is relentless.
For the accountants, solicitors, agencies and consultancies of the city centre, New Walk and the Cultural Quarter.
A manufacturing and distribution city with a multilingual customer base and a serious compliance load. These are the things we end up working on most.
Leicester's garment and food manufacturers work under a level of scrutiny that smaller firms elsewhere never see, and the evidence burden lands on people who are not writers. We work on turning what the business actually does into documentation that stands up: procedures written down, audit responses drafted from records, corrective actions explained clearly. The model drafts; your team verifies every factual claim, and we spend real time on that discipline.
Leicester is one of the most linguistically diverse cities in the UK, and for a lot of businesses here that is not a diversity statistic but a Tuesday morning: suppliers, staff and customers who do not all work in English. AI is genuinely strong at this, and badly used it is a liability. We cover where machine translation is safe to rely on, where a human has to check, and how to keep a consistent voice across languages.
At Magna Park scale, the paperwork is the operation: booking confirmations, delayed-load explanations, driver briefings, KPI packs, the same information reshaped for a dozen readers. This is the most automatable work in the county and the least automated. We focus the session on the handful of recurring documents that eat the most hours, and build reusable prompts for each one before we leave.
Book a free 10-minute intro call. We will talk through what your team actually does all day, then build the session around it.