April 10, 2024
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 […]
Read moreMarch 25, 2024
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 […]
Read moreMarch 12, 2024
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 […]
Read moreFebruary 29, 2024
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 […]
Read moreJanuary 22, 2024
January 22, 2024
We are delighted to announce that we are launching a new campaign to inspire and educate children and young people on the range of opportunities within aviation. The ‘Inspiring Aviation’ campaign will be a part of our Inspiring the Future programme and is being funded by the Department for Transport’s Reach for the Sky initiative. […]
Read moreDecember 13, 2023
December 13, 2023
Today Education and Employers launches a new video to raise vital awareness that stereotyping about jobs starts at a young age and risks limiting the futures of girls all across the globe. Children in the UK, Canada, China, Denmark, and South Africa were all asked to draw pictures of people doing typical jobs and the […]
Read moreOctober 27, 2023
October 27, 2023
This month, our Inspiring Governance programme and the National Governance Association relaunched the joint campaign, Everyone on Board, to diversify school and academy governance. Education and Employers deliver the Inspiring Governance school governor recruitment service funded by the Department for Education. We believe that a strong governing board, with a diverse range of effective governors […]
Read moreOctober 16, 2023
October 16, 2023
On Thursday 28th October, Brompton Bicycle teamed up with Inspiring the Future to celebrate National Manufacturing Day and introduce young people to exciting careers within the sector. Primary, secondary and college-aged children all had the chance to take part and discover the huge range of roles and people involved in producing and selling Brompton’s bikes. […]
Read moreSeptember 6, 2023
September 6, 2023
The Education and Employers charity are working with Region Skåne and Mälardalens University in Sweden to gain a better understanding of children’s career aspirations. The aim is to explore what factors are influencing their choices, and in turn, limiting their ambitions. The study will also look at how their ambitions compare with labour market demands. […]
Read moreAugust 31, 2023
August 31, 2023
With the new school year about to begin, our Charity’s mission is clear – Education and Employers wants to ensure that every young person, wherever they live, whatever their parents’ or carers’ circumstances, has the opportunity to meet a diverse range of volunteers from the world of work to hear first-hand about the possibilities open […]
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