Woodruff Training: Your People Are Your Best Firewall

Cyber and AI training for small businesses, plus tabletop exercises and Cyber Essentials support. Onsite from Portsmouth to Brighton, live online UK-wide.

What we do

Training & Awareness

Turn your team into the part of your defences that works.

AI Adoption & Safe Use

Put AI to work in your business without opening a new security hole.

Checks & Readiness

Find the obvious gaps and get ready for the standards clients ask about.

Resilience & Response

Decide what you would do while everything is still working.

Getting your business Cyber Essentials certified

Cyber Essentials is the government-backed scheme, run by IASME on behalf of the NCSC, that clients and insurers increasingly ask small businesses to hold. We work through the five controls with you, fix what needs fixing, and have your answers ready so the assessment is a formality rather than a scramble. The certificate itself is issued by a licensed certification body, not by us.

Courses

Practical, plain-English courses that upskill your team on cyber security and safe AI use. Delivered onsite across Sussex and south-east Hampshire, live online UK-wide, or self-paced through the learning portal. Every course is built around a real small business, not an enterprise.

Pricing

All prices exclude VAT. Onsite travel is included across the core area, from Chichester through Bognor and Littlehampton to Worthing and Shoreham. Further out, in Portsmouth, Brighton, Horsham and Crawley, travel is agreed in advance and shown separately rather than added later. Multi-site and larger pieces of work are quoted per project, and schools, charities and community groups pay considerably less.

Cyber awareness for schools and community groups

Staying safe online is not just a workplace concern. We run the same plain-English sessions for schools and public groups across Sussex and south-east Hampshire, tailored to the room rather than a corporate audience.

Schools & colleges

Age-appropriate sessions for students, plus practical guidance for teachers and support staff. Spotting scams, protecting personal information and thinking before you click.

Co-working spaces & hubs

Talks and drop-in sessions for the freelancers, founders and small teams who share a space, and often a Wi-Fi network. Simple habits that protect everyone in the building.

Community groups & charities

Libraries, clubs, charities and local organisations wanting friendly, jargon-free online-safety talks for their members or volunteers.

How it works

Free consultation

A short call to understand your team, your risks and any compliance you are aiming for. No obligation and no sales pressure.

Tailored plan

We build the session around your business (your systems and your sector’s real threats) rather than handing over a generic slide deck.

Deliver the training

Onsite at your premises or live online. Interactive, practical and paced for non-technical staff, so it actually sticks.

Measure & certify

A short knowledge check and completion certificates show what landed and give you evidence for insurers, clients or an audit.

Frequently asked questions

Do you only offer training?

No. Training is the core, but we also run tabletop disaster exercises, help your team adopt AI tools safely, run domain and email exposure checks, and prepare you for Cyber Essentials. Most clients start with one thing and build from there.

What is a tabletop disaster exercise?

Everyone who would have to deal with a crisis sits down together, a realistic scenario unfolds, and the group works out what they would actually do. Ransomware on the shared drive, no access to the building on a Monday morning, a supplier that has stopped answering the phone. Nothing is plugged in and nobody needs to be technical. It usually takes two to three hours, and it is the cheapest way to find out that three people each thought a fourth had the backups.

Do our staff need to be technical?

Not at all. Every session is built for everyday employees and deliberately avoids jargon. If your team can use email, they will follow the training and take something useful away.

Do you deliver onsite or online?

Both. We run in-person sessions across Sussex and south-east Hampshire, and live, interactive sessions online for teams anywhere in the UK. Plenty of clients mix the two: an onsite kick-off, then online refreshers.

Do you cover our town?

We are based in Bognor Regis. Travel is included across the core area, so Chichester, Littlehampton, Arundel, Emsworth, Havant, Worthing and Shoreham are all normal onsite work at the published price. We also work regularly in Portsmouth, Brighton, Horsham and Crawley, where the travel is agreed in advance and shown separately on the quote rather than added afterwards. There is a page for each town setting out what we see locally. Anywhere else in the UK, a live online session covers you with nobody losing a morning to travel.

How long does a session take?

A core awareness workshop runs around 60 to 90 minutes. Ongoing programmes use much shorter monthly refreshers designed to fit around a normal working day.

Will this help with Cyber Essentials or our insurance?

Staff awareness is a growing requirement for cyber insurance and a sensible step toward Cyber Essentials. We will show you what matters and get you ready, though the formal certificate itself is issued by a licensed certification body, not by us.

How often should we train?

An initial workshop followed by refreshers is far more effective than a one-off. For most small businesses, a session when people join plus quarterly or annual top-ups works well.

Areas we cover

We are based in Bognor Regis and deliver onsite across Sussex and south-east Hampshire, or live online anywhere in the UK. Travel is included in the price across the core area below. Further afield it is agreed in advance and shown separately, never added to an invoice after the fact.

Contact

Woodruff Training is based in Bognor Regis and covers Sussex and south-east Hampshire, working remotely across the UK.