For salon owners · North Wales & the border
Three in four salons say recruitment is getting worse, and in-salon training eats senior time you can’t spare. Clwydian Academy exists to carry that load for the whole region — training your people to VTCT NVQ standard while they work for you.
Your apprentice trains with us in structured practical blocks and returns salon-ready faster — six-month fast-track instead of years of slow shadowing. From August 2027, Medr’s direct-grant apprenticeship model is expected to let us deliver this as your approved training provider, with state funding carrying the training cost while you pay the wage.
Barbering, advanced colour and extensions intensives that add services to your price list in days, not terms — with priority scheduling for whole-team bookings. Browse CPD courses.
Our open cohorts graduate work-ready adults who chose this trade deliberately. Salons registered with us hear first when graduates are looking for chairs in your area.
Why partner with us
Further education does an important job for school-leavers. We deliberately serve a different need: adult learners, compressed timelines, and the commercial skills — consultation, rebooking, pricing — that make a trainee profitable in your salon, not just qualified on paper.
Training is delivered by education-qualified senior practitioners with internal quality assurance run in-house, in a purpose-fitted St Asaph academy with professional-grade stations and COSHH-compliant ventilation.
of salons report recruitment getting harder year on year. The pipeline problem is structural — solving it takes a dedicated trainer.
to a qualified, revenue-earning team member on our fast-track model, versus two years of traditional apprenticeship drag.
Apprentice places and team CPD will be allocated in registration order as the academy opens. It costs nothing to be first.
