Innovation Centres

Our main delivery channel.

Our Innovation Centres are embedded in the communities we serve. Each centre houses four interconnected hubs — Skills, Marketplace, Mentorship and Spiritual — that together develop skilled, opportunity-ready and faith-grounded young people aged 15–35.

Youth at a GGF Innovation Centre learning digital skills in a computer lab
Inside a centre

Four hubs. One integrated journey.

The four hubs

Each hub has a distinct role — and none stand alone.

A young person moves between the hubs as they grow. The Skills & Vocation Hub equips them, the Marketplace Hub launches them into income and opportunity, the Mentorship Hub guides them professionally, and the Spiritual Hub grounds them in faith, values and psychosocial wellbeing.

Skills & Vocation Hub

Skills & Vocation Hub

Upskilling and training in digital, technical, creative and vocational skills.

Purpose
Deliver working-level competence in coding, media, design, AI basics, music, crochet, baking, sign language, French and more — the technical core of what we do.
Outcome
Youth with a hire-ready skill and a portfolio of real projects, products or performances.
Marketplace Hub

Marketplace Hub

Entrepreneurship, innovation, incubation and market linkage.

Purpose
Turn skills into livelihoods — business and financial literacy, product design, incubation for youth-led ventures, product-to-market linkages, internships and job placement.
Outcome
Youth-run enterprises generating income, and trained youth placed in internships and jobs.
Mentorship Hub

Mentorship Hub

Professional mentorship for career and life direction.

Purpose
Pair each young person with professional mentors from our network who share industry insight, model excellence and open career doors through one-to-one and group mentorship.
Outcome
Career-directed youth with real professional relationships and a plan for what's next.
Spiritual Hub

Spiritual Hub

Spiritual formation and psychosocial support.

Purpose
Ground young people in faith and values through discipleship, teaching, worship and prayer — with qualified counsellors offering psychosocial support for the pressures and transitions of youth.
Outcome
All-rounded youth grounded in God — formed in character, emotionally resilient and anchored in community.

How young people enter

The funnel: from discovery to enrolment.

Our holiday programmes, weekend programmes and bootcamps are the funnels that bring in gifted young people. From there, we identify their strengths and enrol them into an Innovation Centre where they're mentored and developed — exiting as empowered, all-rounded individuals ready to lead and earn.

Holiday Programmes

Our flagship entry point — where we discover and engage new young people.

Weekend Programmes

Continuous engagement that keeps momentum between school terms.

Bootcamps

Short, intensive skill-building sprints for focused growth.

Enrolment

Enrolled into an Innovation Centre

Gifted young people identified through our programmes are enrolled into a centre, where they cycle through all four hubs — skilled vocationally, launched into the marketplace through entrepreneurship, incubation and linkage, professionally mentored, and formed spiritually with psychosocial support throughout. They exit as economically empowered, socially responsible young adults grounded in faith and strong values.

Roadmap

Three centres by 2031.

2027
Step 1
Centre 1 opens

First community-embedded Innovation Centre.

2029
Step 2
Centre 2 opens

Deepening community delivery.

2031
Step 3
Centre 3 opens

Regional scaling begins.