News Archives - Education and Employers

January 7, 2025

Working with the Westminster Foundation to inspire children about future careers

January 7, 2025

Education and Employers are pleased to announce we will be working in a new funded partnership in 2025 with the Westminster Foundation to bring diverse role models from the world of work into primary schools in some of the more challenging areas of Westminster, Chester, Northwest Lancashire, and the Highlands. Without intervention, children can form […]

September 12, 2024

Celebrating the hopes and aspirations of children

September 12, 2024

Today, we are launching a national campaign asking children to draw a picture of what they want to be when they grow up. The ‘When I grow up…’ campaign aims to celebrate and showcase what children aspire to be and capture their creativity and imagination. It is based on ‘Drawing the Future’ , our 2017 research […]

July 24, 2024

Dame Bernadette Kelly volunteering with Inspiring the Future

How Civil Servants are showing young people the opportunities open to them

July 24, 2024

Civil Servants from across the country have been volunteering in schools with Inspiring the Future since its launch in 2012 . Over 8,500 people from diverse backgrounds have registered to give children and young people valuable insights into the wide array of career opportunities available within one of the UK’s largest and most influential employers. […]

June 18, 2024

Published today: new report on the career aspirations of children in Skåne, Sweden

June 18, 2024

Over the last 18 months we have been working with colleagues from Region Skåne and Mälardalens University in Sweden on a report examining the career aspirations of children in the region. The research has looked at who or what is influencing their choices and how they compare with current and projected jobs using the methodology […]

June 13, 2024

Images of volunteer interactions with young people both virtually and in-person

4 million moments of aspiration on Social Mobility Day

June 13, 2024

Today is Social Mobility Day! Whilst it seems like there is a themed day for everything, this is about an issue our charity thinks is crucial – raising aspirations and ensuring that a young person’s background doesn’t determine their future. Our research shows that young people’s aspirations are heavily influenced by the jobs their family and neighbours do, […]

April 17, 2024

Launch of Making the Future campaign to demonstrate careers in crafts

April 17, 2024

We’re working with the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) to give young people the opportunity to learn about the world of work first hand from volunteers who work in crafts, conservation and restoration. What is Making the Future? Making the Future is our craftiest campaign yet. It aims to break down stereotypes about opportunities in […]

April 10, 2024

Bank of America volunteers sat at tables with young people talking and completing activities together.

Bank of America partnership supports brighter futures for young people

April 10, 2024

Education and Employers are one of Bank of America’s longest running charity partners. Bank of America continue to fund our work together, tackling stereotypes in the world of work and raising young people’s aspirations. Bank of America has been a lead corporate supporter of Inspiring the Future since 2011, reaching over 68,000 young people thanks […]

March 25, 2024

Karen Giles 1962 – 2024. Thank you for inspiring us all.

March 25, 2024

Staff and trustees of the charity are very sad to hear of the loss of our long-standing trustee Karen Giles. Karen sadly passed away on Friday 22nd March surrounded by family after a long period of receiving palliative care at home after a diagnosis of brain cancer. Our thoughts are with her family at this […]

March 12, 2024

Child's drawing of themself as an artist

What do primary children in Hong Kong want to be when they grow up and what do they think success is?

March 12, 2024

A video made by CLAP@JC and Education and Employers charity capturing what primary children in Hong Kong aspire to has been shown as part of the opening ceremony of a major conference on education in Hong Kong. The Career and Life Adventure Pathways (CLAP) conference was organised and hosted by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities […]

February 29, 2024

Group of Icelandic children hold up signs inviting volunteers

Iceland launch Stækkaðu framtíðina (Inspiring the Future)

February 29, 2024

Today, Iceland launched their own version of our Inspiring the Future/Primary Futures programmes. They have called it ‘Stækkaðu framtíðina’, which translates into English as ‘Expand the Future’ as there isn’t quite a direct translation of the word ‘inspiring’ in Icelandic. The aim of the project is to help ensure equal opportunities and access to jobs […]