Where does Botox training near Cardiff actually happen?

At our London training centre. From Cardiff, GWR direct from Cardiff Central to Paddington, about 2 hours 30 door to door. Online theory is completed at home before the clinical days, so travel buys practical time only.

Can I be a model from Cardiff instead of a delegate?

Yes. Model sessions run on every course day at the London centre, at prices around half typical clinic rates. Apply through the model programme page and flexible availability gets matched fastest.

How many models will I treat on the foundation course?

Four to six across the two clinical days, at a published maximum ratio of one trainer to four delegates. If on-the-day suitability reduces your exposure, you return to a supervised clinic free.

Is there a course venue in Cardiff itself?

Not currently. We concentrate clinical infrastructure in London and Manchester so every cohort gets the same published ratios and model clinics. Welsh licensing notes for SPMU practitioners are linked below.

Botox and dermal filler training in Cardiff

Aurelia Institute trains in London and Manchester. There is no Cardiff venue, no Welsh venue and no local trainer working under our name. If you are in Cardiff and you train with us, you are travelling to England. Everything below still applies wherever you eventually train, and one part of it applies to almost nobody else’s page about Cardiff, because most of them get Welsh law wrong.

London rather than Manchester

From Cardiff, London is a day trip, though one that needs an early start and some thought about crossing the capital at the far end. Manchester is realistically an overnight and there is no good reason to pay for a hotel when the nearer venue is manageable in a day. Check timetables when you book rather than relying on a published figure, since the south Wales main line and the Severn crossings are both regularly affected by planned work. Availability is usually the real constraint, so start from the course dates page and fit the travel around it.

What Welsh licensing actually covers

This is the part worth reading carefully, because it is quoted wrongly all the time, usually by people who have not read it. The Special Procedure Licences (Wales) Regulations 2024 came into force on 29 November 2024. They cover acupuncture, body piercing, electrolysis and tattooing. That is the entire list. Botulinum toxin and dermal fillers are not within scope.

So a Welsh special procedure licence does not authorise you to inject anything, and holding one says nothing about your competence to do so. It will not satisfy an insurer pricing injectables cover and it is not a substitute for training. The practical trap in Cardiff is the mixed treatment list. If you intend to offer, say, microblading or piercing alongside injectables, part of your offering falls inside the Welsh regime and part of it falls outside, and the premises requirements attach to the licensable part. Sort that out before you sign a lease rather than afterwards. The licensing tracker keeps the position for all four nations current, which matters here because Welsh, English and Scottish rules now diverge sharply.

Practising in the Welsh capital

Cardiff draws clients from a very wide area, the valleys towns, the Vale and much of south Wales, so the effective catchment is larger than the city itself. That is helpful for a new injector, because people will travel to a capital city for something they would not travel across their own town for. The city centre clinic sector is compact and competitive, while the surrounding towns are much less densely served, and a workable first year often looks like sessional space in the city combined with work closer to where you live.

The client base is also shaped by the city’s employment, with a large public sector, university and media workforce that books around a standard working week. Evening and early appointment availability does a lot of quiet work in building a list. Recommendation carries heavily across the valleys communities in particular, where a practitioner known to a family tends to be used by several generations of it.

Training in England, working in Wales

Crossing the border for a course changes nothing about the rules that apply to your practice. Work in Cardiff and Welsh law applies, along with your own regulator’s standards, whoever taught you and wherever. The thing to check is not the postcode of the training venue but whether the training matches the way you actually intend to work, and whether your indemnity covers that working pattern in Wales. Ask the insurer directly rather than assuming, particularly if your plan involves treating at more than one site or offering a mixed list.

Getting the order right

Premises first, because in Wales that question is entangled with what else you plan to offer. Then your registration and prescribing position. Then indemnity. Then the course. Doing it in that order means you buy the training your plan needs rather than discovering afterwards that the plan needed something else. The route into aesthetics guide walks through it properly.

One point on the medicine itself

Botulinum toxin is a prescription only medicine. That shapes how you can practise and how you can advertise: it cannot be promoted to the public, and a prescriber must assess each patient face to face before it is prescribed. Whatever you read elsewhere, that requirement applies wherever in the country you work.

Our complete guide to foundation injectables training explains what you will be taught, who can enrol, and why prescribing status matters more than the certificate.