The course in charity run by charity professionals

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Watch the recording of our open evening

Watch the recording from October’s open evening here. You’ll find out more about the course structure, the application process and hear from alumni about their experience as an apprentice.

What’s Charity Apprentice?

The foundation course in charity, run by charity professionals, Charity Apprentice is the best way for great people to develop amazing careers in the charity sector. Starting January 2018, you can take the course alongside your day job or studies, and use your spare time to train yourself for your dream career.

Charity Apprentice is unique because it immerses you in the charity sector, giving you practical experience as well as a theoretical understanding. Through our online platform, residential boot camps and real-world marketing and fundraising challenges, we give you the experience you need to navigate the sector, specialise according to your strengths and goals or even start your own enterprise. Whatever your charity career goals, we will help you realise them.

Charity Apprentice is a social enterprise developed by Child.org, a children’s charity with a holistic approach.

What you’ll learn

Charity Apprentice will teach you both how charities work and how to do effective charity work. It gives you a taste of an enormous range of different charity work, allowing you to discover a role that’s perfect for you.

Included are 10 month’s worth of tasks compiled by experts from across the sector, tackling a current topic each month. You name it, we’ve got it on the course. We also put you in the driving seat to run your own fundraising events and marketing challenges so you fill your CV with relevant, practical experience. You’re fully supported along the way by the Charity Apprentice team.

You’ll learn about:

Ethical fundraising
Campaigning
Sustainable Development

Insight & Analysis
Trusts & Foundations
Gender
Marketing

Brand
Advertising
Content creation
Pitching

Challenge Fundraising
Human Rights
and much more...

See full course timeline

How you learn it.

We use a whole range of learning methods – some face to face, some online depending on the task.

chapp3 — A digital platform
You can access the course content and discussion groups easily online, thanks to our digital platform. Read short learning tasks, watch videos and complete quizzes from a range of experts and sources. See your progress and manage your learning through your personalised dashboard.

chapp2 — Bootcamps and Hack Days
Meet and discuss your ideas with us and other apprentices at the Bootcamps and Hack Days. Expert talks, workshops, group exercises all geared towards making charity more effective. Build a network of contacts and friendships that will continue throughout your career.

Philippa2 — Real world challenges
Charity Apprentice is about gaining tangible, real life experience. You’ll take on real marketing and fundraising projects designed by charity professionals that will show you first-hand what it’s like to work for charity.

chapp4 — Seminars and lectures
Present, debate and build on your ideas in monthly online seminars with the Child.org team and other Charity Apprentices. Learn how to debate key issues and those close to your heart effectively so you can make a bigger impact.

Who do you learn it from?

Charity Apprentice brings together experts from all across the charity sector, from communications to fundraising, who will guide you through each section of the course and allow you to gain an insight into different roles within the sector.

Each month, you will have online sessions with the Charity Apprentice team to present your ideas, plan your challenges, debate charity policy and more. At the Hack Days and Bootcamp you will get access to talks and workshops with the chance to discuss your ideas with charity experts and other Charity Apprentices.

Meet all 35 of our experts

“Great time talking volunteer management with the 2016 cohort – the future of the sector is in good hands!”

Ruth Taylor, Amnesty International

“Wow, the Apprentices are infinitely more passionate and driven than I could’ve imagined.”

David Lacey, Book Aid International

Who are Charity Apprentices?

Our Charity Apprentices come from all different backgrounds. We help students to build their CVs for a job when they graduate. We help charity workers to skill up and diversify. We help those dreaming of a career change to find out how their existing skills fit in at a charity.

When you apply, we’re not looking for lots of experience – we’re looking for passion, motivation and ambition.

What do Charity Apprentices have in common?

A passion for changing the world
Passionate, motivated, brilliant people excited to become the charity workforce of the future. You’ll experience what it’s like to change the world from day one on Charity Apprentice.
The courage to try new things
Want on the ground experience? Tired of looking for internships? Charity Apprentice equips you with a wealth of practical and theoretical experience to give you the best start as a charity professional.
The desire to be the best
We share your desire to be the biggest force for good possible. We will teach you to see through the headlines to analyse and unpack problems and put in smart, effective solutions that will increase your impact on causes that matter to you.

Register your interest

When you provide your contact details here, you are consenting to receive emails marketing the Charity Apprentice course to you, and for Child.org to hold your data in order to send you these. Child.org will never pass on or sell your data to other companies. If you’re interested in how and why we store your data, you can read our Privacy Notice here. By submitting your email you’re also accepting our terms and conditions.

The course in charity run by charity professionals

Watch the recording of our open evening

What’s Charity Apprentice?

What you’ll learn

How you learn it.

A digital platform

Bootcamps and Hack Days

Real world challenges

Seminars and lectures

Who do you learn it from?

Who are Charity Apprentices?

Register your interest

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