Affinity Publisher Newsletter Design Training
Design consistent, professional newsletters using Affinity Publisher (Affinity Layout). This course focuses on clear newsletter structure, branding, readability, layout decisions, and efficient document setup. Your team will learn how to produce newsletters that communicate effectively and maintain a reliable, polished visual identity across your organisation.
Training is available onsite or online, and if required can always be tailored to your organisation’s existing documents, brand guidelines, and communication requirements
Designing effective professional business newsletters with Affinity:
Create, design and publish professional business newsletters in Affinity Publisher.
This beginner friendly course gives your team the skills and confidence to produce clear, well‑structured newsletters in Affinity Publisher (Affinity Layout). We focus on the essential elements of newsletter production from initial document setup (bleed, margins, guides and page structure) through to consistent styling, branding alignment and final publication.
The aim is to help organisations create newsletters that are easy to update, visually reliable, and aligned with their communication goals. Whether your team produces monthly updates, community bulletins or internal communications, this training provides a straightforward, sustainable approach to maintaining a professional visual identity.
Affinity Newsletter Course Overview
This course provides a clear introduction to the essential tools and features in Affinity Publisher (Affinity Layout) used to create professional newsletters. It focuses on the practical building blocks of newsletter design, giving beginners and mixed‑ability teams a straightforward understanding of how to structure, format and prepare documents confidently.
The training covers:
Page setup, bleed, margins, guides, columns and grid layouts
Importing content, bringing in existing text, newsletters and external documents
Image handling, placing images, fitting options and using the built‑in Pexels stock panel
Text control, text frames, text wrap, spacing, alignment and column management
Styles, creating and applying paragraph and character styles for consistent formatting
Master pages, building reusable layouts, adding page numbers and maintaining structure
Document organisation, managing pages, sections and multi‑page newsletter flow
Preparing for publication, exporting newsletters for print or digital distribution
The aim is to give your organisation a simple, reliable approach to producing newsletters that look clear, consistent and professional — without the complexity of high‑end design software.
Who is this course for
This course is ideal for charities, community organisations, not‑for‑profits, education teams and small groups who need to produce clear, reliable newsletters without the complexity of high‑end design software. It’s suitable for beginners, mixed‑ability teams and anyone moving from MS Publisher or basic templates into a more consistent, professional layout approach.
Whether your organisation produces monthly updates, community bulletins or internal communications, this training provides a straightforward, confidence‑building introduction to creating newsletters in Affinity Publisher.
Delivery Options
Training can be delivered onsite or online, depending on what suits your organisation best. Both formats include a short pre‑course meeting to discuss your aims, the type of newsletters you produce and any specific challenges your team wants to focus on.
Onsite Training, ideal for charities, community groups and organisations who prefer face‑to‑face learning. Sessions can be tailored to your existing newsletters, brand guidelines and communication materials.
Online Training, a flexible option for remote teams or organisations spread across multiple locations. Live, instructor‑led sessions are paced to support beginners and mixed‑ability groups.
All training includes full post‑course support, with help available by email, recorded video and live follow‑up meetings for trickier questions.
You can also book Short Topic Sprints focused 90‑minute or half‑day online sessions designed to help your team deepen specific skills, refine layouts or get guidance on new newsletter projects whenever needed.
⟶ Learn more about creating and pubishing newsletter designs
Reviews and Testimonials
Affinity Newsletter Training
Thank you so much for wonderful Affinity training last week! We learned so much, and you are a terrific teacher!
Sara Wyatt, Director of Resident Services, Mercy Ridge Retirement Community
Get in touch
If you’d like to book one of our courses, check dates or arrange a pre‑course meeting, you’re very welcome to get in touch. Training is available for individuals, teams, charities and not‑for‑profits, with flexible scheduling across short sprints, half‑days and full‑day sessions.
You can book or enquire using any of the options below:
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Affinity Training FAQs
How do Online Affinity Publisher Courses work?
Online Courses are available virtually with a live instructor who interacts with you throughout your course via video, audio and screen sharing in real time.
All our digital design courses are available online virtually in video editing software such as Zoom, Teams, WebEX and Google.
24 /7 Online Affinity Training
Because of the flexibility of virtual online courses training can be run on a 24 /7 basis including evenings, overnight and weekends.
1 /2 Day Bite Sized Virtual Online Training Sessions
Lots of people prefer to learn in shorter sessions so because of the flexibility with Online Training we can break full days training into managable half day chunks.
Please note we can only offer this for online training
How do Onsite Affinity TrainingCourses work?
The onsite courses are hosted on your premises to deliver the training.
We travel UK wide including most major towns, cities and their surrounding areas.
The major benefit of onsite Adobe Acrobat Training is that it has a far more personal approach than a traditional classroom delivery.
Onsite Affinity Training Course
- From the very first point of contact the course is about you and your company
- There is no travelling for you or your team saving travel, hotel and any additional expenses
- Flexible dates & times to suit you
- Full after course support for as long as you need it
- The course is focused entirely on you and your individual company requirements
- There is no travelling involved for you or your team because the trainer comes directly to you.
- This is not a generic one size fits all course as training can be tailored to suit you
- Dates and times are arranged to suit your schedule.
Pre-course online meeting /voice call
Prior to your training course we organise an online meeting to introduce your trainer and discuss the logistics, course content that works best for you and your team.
Bespoke Affinity Newsletter Training Courses
Bespoke Affinity Training is perfect for private company courses, 121 sessions or larger team roll-outs.
You can mix and match content from any of our courses including mixing levels such as intro /intermediate etc or choose to add /remove content to suit you
Do you record the Online Virtual Sessions?
We do, we’re happy to record online training but unfortunately due to privacy issues can only offer this for 121 sessions and closed company groups.
24 /7 and Weekend Online Adobe Acrobat Training
Because of the flexibility of virtual online training all of the Online Adobe Training sessions run 24 /7, evenings, overnight and during the weekend.
*We can only offer this for virtual online training courses
Can we use our own newsletter examples?
Yes we can your examples and files
How to Book Affinity Training Courses
Booking with us
Please get in touch with us via the online booking form.
We will then get in touch and send the details of booking reservation and find out your timeframe for training.
We will then send across dates.
Once the booking is confirmed we then organise a pre-course call /meeting to discuss the course and any logistics around the day.
Payment
Payment for training is via BACS or Credit Card
Credit Card payment is via Stripe
*Greta Powell Training Ltd does not collect or store your card details.
Purchase Orders
We accept purchase orders from UK registered companies and the public sector.
Related Affinity Courses
If your team is looking to build on their newsletter skills, you may also find our Adobe Book Design in Affinity Publisher course helpful. It focuses on creating longer, structured documents such as novels, large publications, catalogue and guides using the same clear, practical layout techniques you’ve learned here. It’s a natural next step for teams who want to produce more polished, multi‑page documents with confidence.
⟶ Learn more creating, design and publishing books for KDF, Kindle and Print
If you’d like to get an Intoduction to Affinity Publisher course in before the newsletter one then why not take a look at our beginners Affinity Publisher course which covers the features and tools to get off to a great start in desktop publishing.
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