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Your child finds their hands
By the end of week one they can detangle on their own. By the end of week four they can twist, plait, moisturise, and style without you in the room.
Summer Hair School 2026, year five
Four mornings this summer. Hands-on. Curly and afro-textured hair. Taught by Abbey, the woman families across Dartford already trust with their children's crowns.
Years running, alumni families coming back
Sessions split by age and stage
At Salon ABV, easy parking, easy access
Plus a block head to keep practising at home
What changes
This is not a workshop. It is a transfer of skill. Children walk out able to look after their own hair, and you walk back into your weekend.
By the end of week one they can detangle on their own. By the end of week four they can twist, plait, moisturise, and style without you in the room.
The two-hour Sunday standoff softens. Your child takes the lead, you become the assistant, and bedtime gets quieter.
Kids leave loving what is on their head. Not tolerating it. Not fighting it. Loving it. School photos hit different after a Crowns in Training summer.
What they actually learn
Every skill is taught hands-on. They practise on themselves, on each other, and on a hairdresser block head Abbey provides. The block goes home with them so the practice does not stop at the salon door.
My 11-year-old daughter now detangles her own hair. My eight-year-old daughter does the same.
Meet your teacher
Abbey has spent over a decade specialising in Afro and textured hair, building Salon ABV into a Dartford institution and starting Texture Hair Community Collective CIC to take that knowledge into the community.
Crowns in Training is what happens when an expert decides she wants to teach the next generation, not just style them. Your child does not get a freelancer. They get the woman the rest of Dartford already trusts with their crown.
We don't just do hair. We honour it. And this summer, we teach a child to honour their own.
Crowned in confidence
★★★★★"I would highly recommend the Summer School Hair Care Programme. I am a mother of three daughters, two of which have done the hair care programme for two years in a row. And they are really great at taking care of their own hair because they've learned the skills and they've continued to develop those skills over the course of the year. Every time they've come back they continue to develop their understanding of their own hair and they feel enabled and also empowered to just appreciate the hair that they have and also learn the skills to take care of it."
"My daughter can now braid from extensions and she does her younger sister's hair so that's saving me a job with the detangling"
Two ways in
We are not booking spaces yet. We are gathering interest, and gathering the community evidence that helps us secure funding to run more sessions, in more places, for more families.
Step 1
You will be the first to hear when bookings open. No spam. One email a week through the campaign, then nothing until we have dates.
Step 2
Anonymous. Twelve questions. Your answers go straight into our funding application for Texture Hair Community Collective CIC, which means subsidised places, more sessions, and free spots for families who need them.
Why it matters: funders ask for community evidence. You are that evidence. Five minutes from you can fund free places for a family who needs it.
Open the survey →Every completed survey is entered into a prize draw for a Salon ABV product hamper, drawn 6 June 2026.
What your 5 minutes funds
Texture Hair Community Collective CIC is the not-for-profit arm taking Abbey's work into the community. The application Abbey is preparing right now could fund free and reduced-cost classes for families across Dartford and beyond. It needs your voice to land.
If you have ever been to a Salon ABV class, brought your child to one, or know one family who would benefit, take five minutes. Forward to one friend. That is how community funding gets won.
Take the survey nowTwelve short questions. Anonymous. Mobile friendly.
Potential funding to subsidise classes for local families.
Survey completions by 6 June 2026.
Dartford and the surrounding 10 mile radius.
Good questions
Not yet. This campaign is for interest signups only. Once dates and pricing are confirmed, everyone on the interest list will be the first to hear. You are not committing to anything by joining the list.
Roughly six to fifteen. We split the cohort into age-appropriate groups so younger children get the basics in a way that suits them, and older teens get into more advanced styling.
At Salon ABV in Dartford, with potential to expand to additional locations across Dartford and Bexley if funding lands. The survey is part of how we secure that funding.
Abbey, founder of Salon ABV and a textured hair specialist with over a decade of experience. She runs every Crowns in Training session personally.
Yes, you don't have to give your name and address or anything that identifies you if you don't want to. The data is used only to support the Texture Hair CIC funding application.
Anonymity. Joining the interest list and giving us community evidence are two different jobs. We keep them apart so your name is never tied to your survey answers.
Interest list contacts are stored in our Salon ABV mailing system and used only for this campaign and future Crowns in Training updates. You can unsubscribe at any time. Survey responses are anonymous and aggregated for the funding application.