25 February 2025

Upcoming virtual events for students

25 February 2025

Teachers & Career Leads – Register for Our Interactive KS3+ Virtual Events! Give your students the chance to explore diverse careers with real-life industry volunteers sharing their journeys, pathways, and career tips. 🌟 What to expect?✔️ Inspiring talks from professionals across industries✔️ Live Q&A – Students can ask their burning questions✔️ Interactive sessions to spark […]

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30 January 2025

Clean Canals Challenge – we need your help!

30 January 2025

Help us design a litter picking device and get a chance to win an incredible class boat trip along the canal (location permitting) or an unforgettable class outing to a local attraction sponsored by Canal & River Trust !

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17 January 2025

Year 1 Achievements – Making the Future Campaign

17 January 2025

The first year of collaboration between the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) and the charity Education and Employers (EE) through the Making the Future campaign has achieved remarkable milestones.  Over 6,000 young people from 123 schools engaged with 31 skilled craftspeople across 24 different crafts, gaining insights into diverse career opportunities in the craft and […]

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11 December 2024

Meet our Making the Future Ambassadors

11 December 2024

Hear from two of our dedicated and enthusiastic ambassadors about their experience of volunteering with Making the Future. Felicity Bristow Why did you get involved? I decided to volunteer with Inspiring the Future through QEST (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust) who shared they were supporting a campaign called ‘Making the Future.’ I was inspired to share […]

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19 November 2024

Resources for schools

19 November 2024

Made specifically for schools, careers leads, students and teachers, we’ve prepared a whole range of resources, including worksheets to use alongside events, social media graphics to share what your students are exploring, and posters to link your students’ learning to careers. We’ll also be releasing a digital magazine after each event! Click on the images […]

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30 October 2024

Upcoming virtual events: Making the Future

30 October 2024

Teachers and careers leads, register for one of our upcoming KS3 and above virtual events. We’ve got a whole range of themed events with volunteers from across the industry speaking about their personal career paths and experience in the world of craft. Our latest campaign, Crafting Pathways, is all about showing students how the subjects […]

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26 June 2024

Inspiring Aviation Competition Gallery 2024

26 June 2024

As part of our Inspiring Aviation campaign, we hosted a design competition aiming to inspire students to use what they learned in their sessions with aviation volunteers! Key stage 1 and 2 pupils were challenged to draw a picture that brings to life what a job in aviation might look like in the future, whereas […]

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5 March 2024

Smiling students sit in aircraft and try on flight helmets.

Inspiring Aviation KS3 & KS4 Competition

5 March 2024

Ready to get creative and discover the exciting world of aviation careers? Join our poster competition and let your imagination take flight! Our mission is simple: Inspire your peers to dream big and explore the boundless opportunities available in the aviation sector. From pilots to engineers, air traffic controllers to cabin crew, the sky’s the […]

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1 March 2024

Female pilot in uniform talks with two excited students about aviation

Inspiring Aviation KS1 & KS2 Competition

1 March 2024

Enter our Inspiring Aviation competition for the chance to win brilliant prizes and imagine the future of the aviation sector! Pupils are encouraged to showcase their artistic talents and reflect on their understanding of Aviation sector jobs by drawing a picture to showcase some of the various aviation jobs they know about, inspired by what […]

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6 October 2022

Impact

6 October 2022

Employer engagement in education works. Our internationally-recognised research, alongside other field leaders including the OECD, shows encounters with people from the world of work: “There was a significant number of pupils that were hanging on every word of the volunteer and thinking, ‘I could be that’”. Michelle Giblin, Lead Practitioner for Pupil Premium, Joseph Cash […]

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