Pillar · Future Ready Youth
Youth AI + Startup School
Practical AI skills and startup training for 18–30 year olds across the UK.
Timeline
12 weeks · Hybrid · Cohorts start each quarter
Who it's for
Open to Everyone aged 18–30. No prior tech background required, motivation matters more than qualifications.
Delivered by
Future Ready Digital Academy · UK
Overview
A 12-week hybrid programme that takes you from AI-curious to AI-fluent, then helps you turn what you learn into a real project, side-hustle or startup with mentor support.
What you get
- Free to attend for everyone
- Real projects with local businesses
- 1:1 mentorship from AI practitioners
- Seed grants up to £2,500 for standout projects
- Certificate + portfolio on completion
Four tracks
What you learn
Skills
Practical AI and digital fluency: prompting, automation, data literacy and the tools employers actually use.
Careers
Turn capability into employment: CV and application craft, interview practice, work experience and employer introductions.
Enterprise
Start something. Idea validation, customers, pricing, pitching and launching a real venture with mentor support.
Life
The foundations underneath everything else: confidence, communication, money, wellbeing and self-management.
Two pathways
Choose your route
Careers Pathway
The Careers Pathway takes you from practical AI capability to a job offer. You build the skills, evidence them in a portfolio, then work with our team and employer partners on applications, interviews and placements.
Explore this pathway →Enterprise Pathway
The Enterprise Pathway is for founders. You validate an idea with real customers, build a prototype using AI tools, model the economics, and pitch for support in front of a live panel of mentors and funders.
Explore this pathway →Ready to get involved?
Places are limited each cohort — early expressions of interest get first pick.
Apply to the AI + Startup School