Our aim at Skillway is to motivate and build confidence in 13 - 16 year olds by teaching them practical skills allied to trades and to nurture their personal potential - sometimes for the first time. We aim to work in harmony with a student's current education to give them a feeling of success and an ability to achieve in a low pressure, nurturing environment.

Generally, our students are finding it difficult to succeed within the academic confines of school; becoming disengaged and sometimes disruptive. Frequently, the young people we serve are from challenging circumstances and can struggle to see their future positively.

At Skillway, our students enjoy our ‘hands on‘ learning delivered by skilled volunteer craftspeople, with longstanding experience of their specialism. They are treated as young adults in an environment unlike school and are prepared to take the next step towards a positive future.

Well-equipped Specialised Workshops

The Skillway workshops are housed in the chapel buildings of Nightingale Cemetery. We have our metalwork and woodwork workshops in the chapel and our separate Creative Craft studio at back of our tranquil Godalming site.