2012 sees the Carlton Institute celebrate 20 years of providing an unrivalled range of beauty courses and training for anyone who wants to start working or developing their skills within the spa and beauty industry. 

We are the leader in accredited fast-track beauty and spa courses and have trained over 40,000 therapists since we pioneered this sector in 1992. In addition, our courses are all accredited by VTCT and approved by Habia. 

Along with the widest available range of treatment courses, we also provide a variety of course formats, which allow you the flexibility to choose what's right for you. 

We are recognised by our industry for our excellence - our Brentwood site was a Professional Beauty 2008 winner and our Derby site was a finalist in 2009 for Best Training Academy. In 2010 the Carlton Institute won the Guild Awards of Excellence 2010 for Best Training Provider.

We have also: 

• Developed Carlton Insure, a range of affordable insurance packages that will provide cover to therapists of all levels of training from case-study work to fully-fledged beauty therapists. 
• Created a Virtual Reception Service to give you more flexibility to serve your face to face clients while new appointments get added to your booking system. 
• Partnered to provide you a Website Design service that is specially created for beauty therapists/salons with built in SEO and which can include a booking system. 

Our values & principles

• The client is at the heart of everything we do

• We will remain impartial, independent and give you unbiased advice that is best for your situation.

• We continue to add new courses, training programmes, initiatives and ideas to grow the spa, beauty and hospitality sector.

• We will develop ways and means to give our customers new information and statistics to keep them and their staff developing.