After redundancy

Aloha I have recently been made redundant received my payments etc had a break over Christmas and now ready to tackle what’s next.
I am wanting to change career path after training and being a car mechanic for 11 years. I was made redundant I no longer wish to follow the same path. I would like to retrain but not sure of where to start. At the moment I am unemployed I am in the middle of finding out if I’m entitled to any form of benefit. But my main question is how do I go about getting funded training? Do I need to sign on first? Do I need to apply directly to a training provider and go from there? Do I need to speak to the job centre about any of this or are they just for job hunting? Will my redundancy affect whether I am entitled to funded training? Any advise and reccedatioms appreciated thanks