Primary Schools

Making it possible for children to explore the world of work with fun, inspiring role models.

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Secondary Schools and Colleges

Enable students to meet people in diverse jobs, feed their motivation, and see how school subjects connect to careers.

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Volunteers

Your story is unique and your experience is invaluable. Share your story and see the immediate impact on children. It's just wonderful.

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Employers

You can make a huge difference to students' future careers - and at scale - there are lots of ways to get involved.

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Our work in action

About us

We connect workplace volunteers with schools and colleges to broaden children and young people’s horizons, raise their aspirations and increase their motivation to learn.

See what Inspiring the Future is all about in this short video.

Inspiring aviation

We’re introducing young people to the world of aviation – an industry in real need of future talent. It's a sector with lots of roles behind the scenes – from Air Traffic Control to aircraft engineers, marketing to aircraft despatchers. They're hidden jobs that are in demand and young people need to know about them.

Why it works

It's research based

Our many research studies with children and schools evidence that encounters children have with people from the world of work:

  • Broaden young peoples’ horizons and raise their aspirations
  • Excite children about subjects, increasing motivation, confidence and attitude to learning
  • Challenge stereotypes including gender and social
  • Improve academic attainment at GCSE
  • Increase young people’s earning potential
  • Reduce the likelihood of young people becoming NEET (not in education, employment or training)

It’s a simple idea of bringing schools and companies together, that’s got a lot of complex thinking, software, research and hard work behind it.

Nick Chambers, Founder and CEO

Over the last 15+ years over 85% of secondary schools and 35% of primary schools have signed up to Inspiring The Future.

4,500,000 +

interactions have taken place between workplace volunteers and young people to inspire and educate them on the world of careers out there.

Working with

JP Morgan
DWP
NHS
bam
Centrica
GCHQ
Amazon Web Services
Kent County Council
Allen Overy
PiXL
HM Treasury
Compass Group
GLA
British Gas
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Brompton Bicycles
Business Growth Fund
Dechert
Bank of America
Slaughter and May
Recruitment and Employment Confederation
Google
CMI
UCL Institute of Education
The Careers and Enterprise Company
APM
Cilex
Home Office
Federation of Small Businesses
American Express
Capita
Santander
WorldSkills UK
Salesforce
General Electric
Dept for Transport
CIOB
Sky
Ministry of Justice
TFL
Cabinet Office
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
RAF
Experian
TES
EMCOR
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
Capgemini
Trades Union Congress
HMRC
NAS
Pepsico
WPP
ARUP
AKO
UK Theatre / SOLT
Sheffield Hallam University
Sainsbury’s
STEM Learning
Deloitte
MITIE
PWC
BT
Institute of Directors
Meta
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
Virgin Media
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East Sussex County Council
OECD
BBC
Aston Martin
CIOL
ACCA
Aviation Skills Partnership
CIMA
HM Civil Service
Ordnance Survey
The Dulverton Trust
Morgan Sindall Logo
BIS
Cognizant
Future Talent Learning
ITV
QEST
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
The Royal Warrant Holders Association
Barclays
Tesco
Serco
NAHT
Edge Foundation
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ASCL
City and Guilds
British Chambers of Commerce
Standard Chartered
Associations of Colleges
Boots
Maritime UK
DFE
Balfour Beatty
HP
Deutsche Bank
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