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 show the impact of young people chatting – and quizzing – a variety of workplace volunteers:

Broadens and raises their aspirations.

Excites them about subjects – which increases their motivation to learn.

Breaks down stereotypes about who can do what job.

Reduces their likelihood of Not being in Education, Employment or Training (NEET)

Plus increasing earning potential and more.

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 each year between workplace volunteers and young people to inspire and educate them on the world of careers out there.

Working with

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