Brighton-based digital training since 2009.

17,000+ people through our doors. 710 courses delivered. Apprenticeships, bootcamps and accelerators — all government-funded. Taught by working industry practitioners, not career trainers.

10+
years training in Brighton
17,000+
attendees trained
710
courses delivered
92%
apprentice retention
Our story

How we started.

Creative Process Digital was founded in Brighton in 2015 as a Mac training centre for the city's creative agencies. The original business taught working professionals Adobe Creative Suite, motion graphics, and video editing — short courses for people who needed specific skills quickly.

That model is still part of what we do, but the bigger shift came in 2018 when we became an approved apprenticeship training provider. The funding model — full government coverage for employers and apprentices — meant we could serve people who would never have paid for training. We added bootcamps and accelerators alongside, all on the same funding basis.

Today Creative Process runs 14 active courses across three audiences: employers hiring or upskilling, apprentices building a digital career, and adult individuals switching into digital from somewhere else. The thread connecting all of them is the way we teach: small cohorts, working practitioners, real projects, in person.

The team

21 people, one Brighton centre

Leadership, tutors, content + talent, learning support, operations. Featured below: the leadership trio. Full team on the team page.

Stephen Burkes
Stephen Burkes
Chief Executive

Leads the business across funded provision, employer partnerships, and the wider apprenticeship programme.

Jack Hiett
Jack Hiett
Managing Director

Founded the business in Brighton. Owns employer relationships, sector strategy, and the long-term shape of the curriculum.

Natalie Dzerins
Natalie Dzerins
Operations Manager

Runs the day-to-day operation. Keeps cohorts, staffing, paperwork, and the building working in lock-step.

See the full team of 21
Industry partners

Who we've worked with

Employers, public bodies and household-name brands have hired through Creative Process or partnered with us on funded provision.

Channel 4
BT
Warner Bros
ITN
Rakuten
Thales
M&C Saatchi
Tribal Worldwide
LV Insurance
Brighton Dome
Brighton Festival
Brighton Fringe
Brighton & Hove Albion
Brighton & Hove City Council
West Sussex County Council
University of Brighton
University of Sussex
East Sussex College
Wired Sussex
Greater Brighton Metropolitan
iCrossing
Graphite Digital
Natives
Madgex
Psydro
RetrofitWorks
Plus X
Plus Accounting
Posture People
Art Republic
Bird & Blend Tea Co.
Coast 2 Coast
Carden IT
In-Crowd
Second Voice
Surface Impression
Mayo Wynne Baxter
Pryzm
Classics
BH
BCS
Ofsted
European Social Fund
Education & Skills Funding Agency
Social impact

A Greater Brighton social impact success story

A decade of funded digital training, employer partnership and apprenticeship placement across Brighton, Sussex and the South-East.

£10.4M
Invested in digital skills
1,052
Apprenticeship jobs created
2,883
Employers supported
3,281
Digital skills diplomas awarded
15,892
People supported
57%
Women
18%
From a BME background
3
New industry diplomas in coding, digital marketing & AI Specialist

In 2009, we launched and piloted the first ever digital apprenticeship programme at Apple's UK HQ in London on behalf of Government. There are now over 20,000 digital, creative and tech apprenticeships across England.

What we stand for

Creative Process values

Our social mission is at the heart of our business. If doing good matters to you as much as building a commercial business, you'll find working with us a rewarding experience.

Give a damn

We care about each other, those we train, our apprentices and our employer partners. We aim to make sure that this shines through everything we do.

Be brave

We believe in challenging each other, standing up, speaking out. We believe in trying new and difficult things to make ourselves and our work better.

Stay curious

We actively seek out the new and the unusual, finding inspiration everywhere in the world around us.

Take pride

We are open, accepting and inclusive, and we support each other to reach our true potential. We are actively working to make sure Creative Process Digital more fully reflects the society around us.

Diversity & inclusion

Three commitments that shape our inclusion work

Diversity and inclusion is at the heart of what we do. We believe that more diverse workforces create better businesses and better communities.

We are passionate about our digital apprenticeship programme because we are creating a new generation of young people who are accessing high-skilled jobs in growth sectors — and having a transformational experience along the way.

Creative Process seeks to enable people in every part of society — irrespective of age, gender, physical ability, ethnicity, sexual orientation or socio-economic status — to access the opportunities that come from a meaningful job and high-quality professional development.

Our approach is built on three things:
  1. 1 Helping everyone increase their digital literacy so they can make the most of the digital world.
  2. 2 Offering the essential digital skills employers demand, and supporting people to up-skill throughout their working lives.
  3. 3 Stronger collaboration between public, private and community sectors to tackle the digital skills gap together — working to shared objectives.

Creative Process Digital supports the Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation through our Digital Apprenticeship Fast Track programme — enabling under-represented individuals to access new careers and professionally accredited training across high-growth job sectors.

Where we teach

Our venues

A cohort working at rows of iMacs in the Creative Process Mac Training Centre, Brighton
Creative Process Brighton (Mac Training Centre)

Our main centre in central Brighton. Two classrooms, 16 high-spec Macs each, breakout space. Five-minute walk from Brighton station.

Apprenticeships · Bootcamps · Digital Accelerator · Adobe Skills
Tour the centre
The Lighthouse Brighton & Hove venue — gallery and event space
Lighthouse Brighton & Hove

Partner venue for video courses. Studio space, professional lighting, sound, and edit suites. Run by the long-standing Lighthouse arts organisation.

Video Accelerator · Video Skills Bootcamp

Come see the centre.

Open days run monthly. Or request a 20-min callback with us and we'll talk through your situation.

Or call us: 01273 232273