If you need a little professional help:

Mooti
Fantastic PR, marketing and fundraising company, full of boundless enthusiasm, intelligent creative ideas and practical solutions. Definitely recommended if you need some help promoting yourself, event or business!
www.mooti.co.uk

If you want to get creative:

Touchmark Jewellery Studios
This lovely purpose-built loft studio in Chew Magna is every maker's dream! Run by Chris Pate and Kathleen Reeve, this is the best place to learn how to handle Precious Metal Clay. I struggled with it before I was shown how, but the workshops I've attended there have put me on a new path to success! I love it now! Highly recommended - you'll be addicted!
www.touchmark.co.uk

John Dunn
A talented ceramic and glass artist offering weekend classes in his fantastic glass studio on the beach in Brighton. His course was brilliant - I met some lovely people and was just in heaven making pretty things in such a wonderful location!
www.johndunn.co.uk

The Bristol School of Art (Queen's Road)
If you are serious about taking up jewellery, there's no better place in Bristol to learn than at Queen's Road. The studio is extremely well-equipped and the tutors are knowledgeable, experienced, patient and enthusiastic. I am about to enter my third year of the evening course, but the course is always changing so contact them for the latest.
www.filton.ac.uk/bsa/index.php

Barton Hill Settlement
This is the first place I did a jewellery course in Bristol, before moving onto the Queen's Road course. Great if you don't want to commit for a whole year.
www.bartonhillsettlement.org.uk/courses.htm

Also worth checking out for that well-earned down-time:

White Horizons Chalets
Affordable chalet holidays in Tignes, France, with a choice of three different chalets, all fully-catered with delicious home-cooked food including local speciality dishes and yummy cakes. If you still want to ski or board after all that food, you can't go wrong as the area is part of the Espace Killy - guaranteed glacial snow, with areas suitable for every ability. After two years in a row, I am truly converted!
www.whitehorizonchalets.co.uk

For your jewellery tools and supplies:

Cookson Gold
Manufacturer and supplier to the jewellery trade. Cookson Precious Metals offer a choice of supplies from over 10,000 products for jewellers, jobbers, craftsmen and students.
www.cooksongold.com