Ada is a registered charity; we are responding to our students' extra needs every day and still doing the outreach to underserved communities that makes Ada such a vital part of increasing diversity in the tech sector. In the months to come Ada will play a major part in retraining those who have been impacted or made unemployed by Covid-19. Our support fund will help allow us to play this part as well as continue to support our students who need extra help to cope during lockdown. 

Thank you for your help and we can't wait to see what you come up with!

About Ada

We need your support to reach our ambition of supporting thousands of young people from hardest-to-reach areas to develop the critical digital skills they need to succeed in life.

To ensure Ada is able to deliver an industry-led curriculum with additional support for each student, including our work-readiness curriculum, student mentors, careers advice and guidance, cutting-edge equipment, and the very best access to future employers, we need additional funding from like-minded people and organisations that see this as one of the biggest issues facing the UK today.

Additional funding also means that we will continue to find the hardest-to-reach students: young people from low-income households, girls who have a passion for technology but are unsure where to go next, and students who have the potential and determination, but, without our support, would slip through the net and leave education aged 16.

What we do here goes beyond standard educational institutions and that means it costs more. Not only are we offering education in cutting edge technology, which means equipment costs and increased teacher costs because we recruit teachers with industry experience, we are also doing so with unprecedented levels of industry engagement and reaching students who often need significant pastoral and enhanced teaching support.