Young Croydon directory

Are you aged 16-18 and just received your exam results? 
Read our exam results guide page for information and advice on your next steps, and how to reach your career goal.

Find the right support

The Young Croydon directory is a useful resource to help find information and support such as:

  • apprenticeships
  • business start-ups
  • careers information and advice
  • courses and workshops
  • mentoring
  • traineeships
  • volunteering
  • work experience and internships

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Contact us

If you would like to discuss information about education, training or getting a job, please contact us. You can also let us know if a service is no longer valid or missing from our directory by contacting the Young Croydon team.

Email: Post16@croydon.gov.uk

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Catch 22

Designed to support young people who are either NEET, struggle with their mental health, ex-offenders or at serious risk of offending into positive outcomes.

Barking Road, London, E16 4HQ.

07943 522 148

Croydon Adult Learning and Training (CALAT)

CALAT offers courses working alongside local communities and employers. You can study:

  • arts and crafts
  • business
  • childcare
  • computing
  • English
  • maths

Katharine Street, London, CR0 1NX.

020 8726 7777

Escape Studios

Short courses in Visual Effects (VFX), Game Art, Animation and Motion Graphics and other specialist disciplines.

Escape Studios has been at the forefront of creative education since 2002, supplying the industry with studio-ready talent.

6 Mitre Passage, London, SE10 0ER.

+44 (0)203 918 4171

Get Started with Music

This exciting 5 day music course will give you an opportunity to build on skills like confidence and teamwork through music making.

Young people will be able to get support from musicians in the industry, work as part of a team to produce a group piece of music and also make their own music videos.

Go Train 18+

Provides short courses for those over 18 and NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) as well as those who are employed. 

Offers pre-employment courses of 1 to 2 weeks' training with a guaranteed interview and a new career in weeks, plus support to sustain.  

Courses available:

  • Maths
  • English
  • Sage Accounting
  • IT and computing
  • Business
  • Customer service
  • Construction
  • Mental health and wellbeing. 
     

Groundwork London

Groundwork London work up with young people up to the age of 25. You have to have registered before your 25 birthday. 

They offer courses in:

  • level 1 horticulture skills
  • functional skills up to level 2
  • customer services 
  • business admin 
  • employability skills

Courses are delivered online at the moment and will return to face-to-face soon. Courses are normally delivered to groups of 6 to 10 people. 

They also offer support with:

Morley Street 18-21, London, SE1 7QF.

Impact

Foundation skills and work placement experience, a choice of pathways including healthcare, IT, Business and Childcare

The Grove, Slough, SL1 1QS.

07874 858 948

IXION

IXION offers traineeships and apprenticeships to build confidence, increase independence and provide key skills, experience and qualifications that employers are looking for.

Coval Lane, Chelmsford, CM1 1JE.

01245 505 630