The Fearless Academy

82% of UK jobs list digital skills as a requirement

Those that do, also list higher salaries on average than those that don’t.

Yet employers still struggle to fill a lot of their vacancies due to a lack of digital competency.

As a result, 3 in 20 businesses are struggling against an ever-increasing digital skills gap.

And indirectly, career progression for those already established in the world of work is stagnating. The needs of the businesses they are working for are changing and put plainly - they simply cannot keep up.

Enter, The Fearless Academy.

Our ambition is to train 1000 people - from all stages of life - in the digital and social media skills that are so desperately needed in businesses today.

Our 12-week courses have been designed for the industry, by the industry and will be delivered by our Fearless Adventures’ own marketing experts, who have experience working across the likes of:

Superdry, Unilever, The Hut Group, Logitech, E!, Aldi.

We want The Fearless Academy to be completely accessible - so it will be open to people of all ages and all professional backgrounds.?

Whether they’ve never had a job or have been in the same one for 30 years, we want to inspire people to learn as much as possible whilst simultaneously answering the call for more digitally skilled talent.

We want to give people the best chance of succeeding professionally and businesses the best chance of surviving into the future.

And we want to nurture, coach and develop anyone who is open to that.

Our courses will cover the likes of SEO, PPC, graphic design, web development and so much more.?

And our graduates will be fully supported upon completion. Fearless Adventures’ own talent team will be doing everything they can to help them secure employment in the time that follows. This means:

Helping them prepare for interviews

Hosting career days

Opening them up to networks of potential employers

Guaranteeing to secure each of them one interview

Because sometimes the right people are out there - just hidden behind a lack of confidence to apply, an absence of connections or a need to slightly refine their job-hunting approach.

This is something I am hugely passionate about - both as a result of my own experiences hiring for a digitally-dependent business and through the conversations I am having with founders every single day about the difficulty they are having hiring and therefore scaling their otherwise incredibly viable businesses.

I've been inspired by businesses like North Coders & UA92 which have done huge things in the region and I want to continue to support their work by bringing my experience from Social Chain - and now Fearless Adventures - to be the standard bearer for Digitals and Social skills.

We will be announcing a few more things in the coming weeks which will offer more information on what we’re doing - and how you can get involved - but please feel free to send any questions you have in the meantime to [email protected] and we will get back to you.