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Code your future
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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 97% 32/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice
CodeYourFuture (CYF) is a UK based non-profit organisation that trains refugees and other disadvantaged people to become web developers and helps them to find work in the tech industry. CYF students are trained in full-stack web development by professional volunteer developers fr
Details
- Maturity
- Established
- Promoter
- Code You Future — website
- Type
- Service
- Status
- Ongoing
- Target groups
- Migrants, Unemployed and those facing social problems
- Period
- 2015-05-31 – 2016-05-31
- Keywords
- refugees, coding, tech industry, employment, disadvantaged
Context
In their journey of interrupted lives, unfinished studies and integration challenges, many refugees yearn to update their tech skills but lack learning opportunities. CodeYourFuture (CYF) is a UK-based non-profit training refugees and disadvantaged individuals in full-stack web development through professional volunteer instructors, emphasising collaboration and product development for tech industry employment.
Objectives
To empower migrants, unemployed people and those facing social problems by training them in full-stack web development, enabling employment in the tech industry.
Activities
Training is delivered through events and classes with defined agendas and volunteer leaders, interactive sessions encouraging full participation, small-group collaboration, feedback collection after each session, and social networking spaces. Volunteers are given defined roles and responsibilities.
Results
Graduates of the programme have reportedly found employment at organisations including the Financial Times, BBC, STV, Ticketmaster, Adzuna, Sensible Object, tlr and WeGotPop (self-reported, not independently verified).
Implementation
- Indicative cost
- Low (< €50k)
- Time to results
- Medium (1–3 years)
- Staffing & skills
- Professional volunteer instructors, Volunteer session leaders with defined roles and responsibilities
Conditions for success
- Defined volunteer roles and responsibilities
- Interactive events with small-group collaboration
- Feedback collected after each event
- Social/networking spaces for participants
Commonly funded by
AMIF — Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund
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Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
- Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
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