Education.
Education.
Education.
Our success is rooted in it. The group runs its own school — Clwydian Academy in St Asaph — because the industry stopped training its future, and we refused to wait. Six-month NVQ fast-tracks, regulated CPD masterclasses and Welsh-framework apprenticeships, feeding every chair in the network.
Hairdressing & barbering diplomas
VTCT-standard Level 2 and 3 qualifications for adults — two academy days a fortnight, live models, cohorts of ten, commercial skills built in.
Course details ↗ Apprenticeships · core to the modelEarn while you learn
Welsh-framework apprenticeships, fully funded for eligible apprentices, delivered at the fastest compliant pace — for our network and for salons across the region.
How it works ↗ CPD masterclasses · MondaysSix regulated VTCT units
Extensions, perming, relaxing, consultation & retail, salon business and skin cancer awareness — upskilling for working professionals, one day a week.
The masterclasses ↗
Why we teach
The pipeline
is the point.
Apprenticeship starts across UK hairdressing have collapsed by nearly 70% in a decade. Rather than compete for a shrinking pool, the group manufactures its own talent — and every learner leaves with more than a certificate: a mapped route into employment, a chair, or a Charlotte Eleanor franchise of their own.
- Clwydian Academy CBC — an asset-locked community benefit company in St Asaph
- Led by a practising Senior Lecturer and Internal Quality Assurer
- Fully funded routes for eligible learners and apprentices
- Graduate pathways straight onto the franchisee ladder
Start where
we started.
Every stylist in our vans began in an academy chair. Yours is waiting in St Asaph.