Our Work
Different skills, for different people, in different places.
What we do:
Since 2018 when the Institute of Coding was established, we have run a wide array of projects and campaigns. Use this page as an opportunity to learn about all of our current and completed projects.
Across our campaigns, the IoC & our partners have created more than 150 courses and we have engaged over 1 million diverse learners. We believe that everyone, at any stage of life, has the right to learn digital skills.
Creating opportunities to enable everyone to pursue a digital career, that’s what we do.
Click Start
Powered thousands of young people into digital futures.
Click Start was a bold, nationally significant programme that powered thousands of young people into digital futures.
Delivered between 2023 and January 2026, the programme has now closed — leaving behind a powerful legacy of skills, confidence and opportunity for almost 40,000 learners across the UK.
Click Start was created to tackle one of the UK’s biggest challenges: who gets access to digital careers — and who doesn’t.
Funded by Nominet and delivered by the Institute of Coding, Click Start brought together universities, employers and youth organisations to remove barriers, unlock potential and create real routes into work for young people from under‑represented backgrounds.
Skills Bootcamps
Completed Project
The IoC worked with partners to connect employers and learners through a series of nationwide Skills Bootcamps that gave people the digital skills needed to take the first step into a tech career.
Read about our Skills Bootcamps or sign up to our newsletter to be the first to know when new courses are launched.
Your Digital Pathway
Completed Project
Your Digital Pathway was a free digital skills course from Santander, developed in collaboration with the Institute of Coding and the award winning TechUP initiative based at Durham University.
The course was developed to support people who want to take the first step on the pathway to building their digital skills.
CTRL Your Future
Completed Project
Our award-winning campaign, CTRL Your Future, was a triumph. Through carefully curated events, panel talks, workshops and short films, we unveiled tangible digital opportunities. The initiative called for individuals like you to dive into the digital world through higher education.
Shift CTRL
Completed Project
The IoC launched Shift CTRL to empower and support a larger and more diverse group of people into careers in digital through the IoC-led Skills Bootcamps.
About Us
What is the IoC?
We’re a national movement of universities, employers and charities, united behind the common goal of providing people from all walks of life with access to digital learning and the opportunity to pursue a digital career. We provide learners across the country with access to high quality courses and pathways to employment.
Community + opportunity + learning + digital = IoC
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