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Learn to weld from home only £9.99 p/m
Academy Membership gives you the guidance and confidence to learn welding at home.
There’s plenty of free welding information online. Videos can show you how to weld, but they can't look at the weld you've just made and tell you what to improve.
As an Academy member, you don’t have to figure everything out on your own.
If you get stuck, ask the Virtual Coach for guidance or upload a photo of your weld and get feedback on what to work on next.
Rich the Coach, is powered by AI and built for beginner welders — helping you ask questions, improve your technique and get practical support whenever you need it.
Membership benefits
There’s plenty of welding content online. Academy Membership is designed to help you turn what you watch into practical skills you can actually use.
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Build the right foundations.
With full access to all Academy content, you can discover the right welding process for what you want to achieve. Learn and develop your technique across MIG, TIG and MMA welding, before going beyond the basics into more advanced skills.
Alongside welding, you’ll develop practical fabrication knowledge including cutting, grinding, working with sheet metal and TIG welding aluminium.
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Develop your skills by actually welding.
Follow our beginner-friendly practical exercises and demonstrations, designed to get you away from the screen and into the workshop. Learn how to prepare properly, practise individual welding techniques and develop your skills before putting them to use on real projects.
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Know what you need to do to improve.
This is where Academy Membership is different. Upload photos of your welds to Rich the Welding Coach and get practical, personalised feedback on your welding progress.
Ask questions, understand what’s going wrong and discover what to do next to improve your technique — helping you improve your technique and build confidence every time you weld.
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Turn your welding skills into something useful.
Put your skills into practice with step-by-step projects designed to get you making things with metal.
Learn how to plan, prepare, fabricate and weld complete beginner friendly projects — building the skills and confidence to take on your own builds, repairs and ideas from home.
WELD SMARTER, NOT HARDER
Uses advanced Computer Vision and generative AI with a natural, conversational experience.
Trained with 1000’s of real-word welding images
Up to date welding knowledge learnt from human experts.
How Academy Membership Works
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Subscribe and unlock the entire Academy content library straight away. Including all online courses, project tutorials, 15 welding plans and your own Virtual Welding Coach.
There’s no commitment — your membership runs monthly and you can cancel anytime.
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Choose what you want to learn and start at your own pace. Follow beginner-friendly video lessons, demonstrations and practical exercises covering MIG, TIG, MMA, fabrication, sheet metal and aluminium welding.
Then get away from the screen, set yourself up and start practising.
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Want to know how you're doing?
Take a photo of your weld and upload it directly to Rich the Welding Coach.
Your weld will be reviewed instantly and you'll receive personalised feedback on what looks good, what could be improved and, most importantly, what to work on next.
You can ask questions at any point if you're unsure about subject matters, technique, machine settings or something you're learning.
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Learning doesn't stop once you've watched a video. As you practise, improve and start taking on your own projects, Rich is there whenever you have another question.
Ask about a project, troubleshoot a problem or get help deciding what to learn next. Your Coach can use your previous conversations to provide more relevant guidance as you progress.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. The Academy is designed with complete beginners in mind. You'll learn about the different welding processes — MIG, TIG and MMA — so you can decide which is right for you.
From there, you can learn the foundational skills step by step, practise at your own pace and progress onto more advanced techniques and projects as your confidence grows.
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The Welding Coach combines AI technology with expert welding knowledge developed through teaching hundreds of beginner welders in person.
For weld image analysis, we use a computer vision model that has achieved an accuracy rate of 77% in our testing. Like any AI system, it won't get everything right, so its feedback should be used as guidance to help you understand your weld and what to practise next.
The quality of the image matters too. Clear, well-lit photographs where the weld is easy to see will help the Coach provide more useful feedback.
The technology will continue to develop as we improve the Coach and the way it analyses welds.
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You don't need a workshop full of expensive tools to start welding. At a minimum, you'll need a welder, suitable PPE, an angle grinder and some basic consumables.
If you're not sure what to buy, we've put together a recommended equipment list to help you choose suitable beginner-friendly equipment. We can also provide recommendations and access to discount codes on selected equipment.
One of the great things about learning to weld is that you can get started with a relatively small amount of equipment and add to your setup as your skills and projects develop.
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Absolutely — YouTube is a great place to learn about welding. The challenge comes when you start practising yourself. A video can show you how to weld, but it can't look at the weld you've just made and tell you what to improve.
The Academy gives you a clear learning path through 16 modules and 80+ videos, taking you from beginner fundamentals through to more advanced welding skills, without having to piece together fragmented information from different sources.
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Yes. You can cancel your Academy membership at any time. There’s no long-term commitment — simply pay monthly for as long as you want to remain a member.
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Yes. Learning to weld takes practice, but you can absolutely develop your skills at home.
Our beginner-focused approach concentrates on the areas new welders typically struggle with. Follow the Academy syllabus, practise the techniques and start building our beginner projects to gradually develop your welding and fabrication skills.
And you don't have to figure everything out on your own. If you get stuck, ask the Welding Coach for guidance or upload a photo of your weld to get feedback on what to work on next.
The Weld Space has also received 100+ five-star reviews from people learning welding and fabrication with us.
The Weld Space knows how to teach beginners
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Explore our Individual Online Skills Courses
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MMA Welding Skills | £27.00
Our MMA Welding Skills course includes instructional videos in Manual Metal Arc Welding (Arc / Stick Welding).
This course will let you discover key MMA Welding techniques, correct rod angles and electrode selection. Alongside trouble shooting common issues such as sticking electrodes and excess spatter.
Take this course to give you confidence to weld using this low cost but effective process.
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MIG Welding Skills | £27.00
Bought a MIG welder and not sure where to start?
This beginner-friendly MIG welding course is designed to help you build real confidence with a MIG welder. You’ll learn how MIG welding works, essential welding techniques, metal preparation, correctly set-up your machine and how to complete key joinery such as butt and fillet welds. By the end of the course, you’ll have the knowledge and practical understanding needed to confidently tackle repairs, fabrication projects, and your own real-world metalwork.
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TIG Welding Skills | £27.00
Begin to master TIG Welding. This skills course; you will break down the machine functions and settings, including what 2T and 4T actually mean and how to use them effectively.
You will learn the techniques to set you up to master the basics to advance TIG Welding from Mild Steel to Aluminium welding.
Along the way, you’ll discover the accessories to take your TIG Welding to the next level.
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MIG & TIG Skills | £39.00
Our MIG and TIG welding Skills course is designed to help you master these two vertisle but different processes.
You’ll focus on practical metal joinery techniques—including butt welds, fillet welds.
This course will give you the confidence to chose the right method and start welding avoiding common mistakes
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Foundations of Welding & Fabrication | £69.00
This beginner-friendly Welding & Fabrication course gives you a broad introduction to the essential skills you need to start working with metal.
Explore MIG, TIG and MMA welding, learn how to prepare and join mild steel, and develop practical 2D and 3D fabrication skills.
By the end of the course, you'll have the knowledge and practical understanding to choose the right welding process, start practising at home and begin building and repairing your own metal projects.
