Learn digital skills.
Build real things.
Start earning.
Digitize Futures is a digital skills platform for young people aged 11–18. You'll learn the skills that businesses actually need, build a real portfolio, and open doors to work and enterprise.
Real progression.
Digitize Futures isn't a course you sit and watch. It's a programme you work through — learning by doing, building as you go, and progressing from skills to real paid opportunities.
Explore
Discover what digital really means. Explore design, social media, AI, websites, content creation, and marketing. Find out where your strengths are and what you enjoy most.
Weeks 1–2Launch
Apply your skills to real briefs from real businesses. Build a portfolio of genuine work you can show employers, clients, and colleges. Get feedback. Improve. Deliver.
Weeks 3–6Earn
Take on paid client work through the Digitize network. Build your reputation. Progress toward part-time employment, freelance work, or further training. Your skills. Your income.
Week 7+Everything on Digitize Futures is grounded in what real businesses need. No theory for its own sake — just skills that translate into real work, real portfolios, and real opportunities.
Brand and design
Canva, visual identity, design thinking — create professional outputs that look the part.
Social media and content
Plan, create, film, edit and schedule content. Build real audiences. Understand what works and why.
AI tools
Use AI tools properly — content generation, image creation, prompting — and understand their limits.
Websites and online presence
Build basic websites, set up Google profiles, understand how businesses get found online.
Digital marketing
Email marketing, ads, analytics — how businesses use digital to grow, and how to do it for them.
Automation and systems
CRM, booking systems, automated workflows — the tech that runs efficient modern businesses.
Digitize Futures is for young people who are curious, creative, or entrepreneurial — and want to do something real with digital. You don't need any prior experience. Just the willingness to learn and do.
Creative young people
If you love making things — videos, graphics, content, ideas — this channels that into skills that earn.
Young entrepreneurs
If you want to run something yourself one day — this teaches you how to market it, build it online, and find customers.
Career-focused learners
If you want a job in digital, marketing, media, or tech — this builds the portfolio and experience that gets you hired.
Curious explorers
Not sure what you want yet? Digitize Futures helps you discover what you're good at and what you enjoy — before you have to commit to anything.
We want Digitize Futures to be accessible to every young person who wants to take part — regardless of background or circumstance.
How places work
Digitize Futures offers both funded and standard places depending on your circumstances and location. Funded places are available for young people who meet eligibility criteria — typically linked to school, council area, or employment status.
build real things, and earn?
Whether you're 11 or 18, a complete beginner or already creating content — Digitize Futures meets you where you are and takes you somewhere real.
Your digital future
starts with one step.
Find out more about Digitize Futures — what's involved, whether there's a funded place available for you, and how to get started.