Code First Girls
Coding courses for women & non-binary people
- 201-500 employees
- B2B
- Enterprise
- Education
- Recruitment
- Training
- Social Impact
- Finsbury, London, UK
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Company mission
To close the gender gap in tech by providing employment through free education.
Our take
Only roughly 10% of the world’s web and software developers are women, with the tech industry remaining dominantly male despite efforts to close this gender gap. Since 2014, Code First Girls has been on a mission to tackle this issue, providing coding courses at no personal cost that connect underrepresented talent to job openings.
By partnering with companies, Code First Girls enables them to access female and non-binary talent, covering training costs through their existing diversity initiatives. In this way, the company has grown into the UK’s largest provider of free coding courses for women and non-binary people, used by a number of huge industry names including Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, Rolls Royce, and GCHQ.
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Benefits
- Annual leave: 20 days + 7 days over Christmas + 1 Special Occasion Day (+ 8 bank holiday days). Optional: Buy or sell 3 days of holiday, 1 Giving back day, option to work 2 days over the festive period and get additional days back.
- Parental leave: 16 weeks full pay for the primary caregiver, 6 weeks full pay for the secondary caregiver. Phased return to the office for the primary caregiver (work for 4 days at full pay for 2 months).
- Flexible working: Our working hours are 9.30am - 5.30pm Opportunity to work from abroad for up to 90 days a year.
- Free CFGdegree education: After working at CFG for 6 months you are able to take our 16 week CFGdegree, worth £10,000 of education!
- 6% matched pension: CFG will match your pension contribution up to 6%
- Length of service: After 3 years you get an extra day of annual leave, 2 extra days at 4 years and 3 extra days at 5 years (and 5+ years). After 5 years a 2-month sabbatical, first month paid, 2nd month unpaid is available.
- Mental health support: Free access to Spill, which offers employees free workplace support therapy sessions.
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2022
$5.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $5.8m
Leadership
Anna Brailsford
(CEO)Board Member for Inclusion and Diversity at the Institute of Coding. Founded and was CEO of performance management solution Frisbee. Previously LinkedIn's Commercial Director for EMEA.
Matt Clifford
(Non-Executive Director)Co-founder and Executive Chair of Entrepreneur First. Founding Chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). Former Council Member and Non-Executive Director at Innovate UK.
Alice Bentinck
(Non-Executive Director)Co-founder and CEO at Entrepreneur First. Board Trustee at employment-focused nonprofit Generation. Has been a member of Imperial College London's Computer Science Department Industrial Liaison Board since 2015.