How a future-defining learning hub for Prince's Trust was delivered within twelve weeks end-to-end

The Princes' Trust charity was founded to support young people in the UK whatever challenges they may be facing and is specifically focused on giving everyone aged 11 to 30 the chance to find and embrace new opportunities.

With the pandemic limiting the charity’s ability to deliver face-to-face advice and coaching to young people looking for employment, they came to AND Digital looking for a blended digital and personal approach to providing young people with inclusive, effective skills training, and guidance on starting a new business.

In one of the most challenging of circumstances for young people looking for work – with COVID all but shutting down the recruitment market - the charity wanted to work quickly to deliver the new platform and pilot website. AND Digital worked with the Prince's Trust to deliver the capabilities and online hub for booking courses, tracking training progress and – through integration with Teams - delivering the educational content itself.

The deployment of Contentful has given the charity a platform through which they can both continue to expand the content they are delivering and evolve the type of course they can offer. The Prince’s Trust are now equipped with a robust, scalable platform for enabling remote and online learning, potentially opening their services to thousands more young people across the country and giving them the scope to be far more responsive to changing needs and different circumstances that may arise in the future.

Although not designed to replace the face-to-face services the charity provides, the blended learning hub gives users and trainers the tools to augment and enhance learning. This blended approach allows face-to-face and expert-led, one-on-one advice to work in parallel with structured, trackable online learning modules, and allows users and trainers alike to access services regardless of location or circumstances. This paradigm shifting capability is part of a wider digital transformation programme for the charity and will offer opportunities to deliver far more content to a greater number of young people, with greater efficiency than ever before.