Primary Schools

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

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Webinars for Secondary and College Staff

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

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Volunteers

Your career journey is unique and your experience invaluable. Share your story and see the immediate impact on children. It's 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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Meeting the Gatsby Benchmarks

Use our diverse and extensive role models from the workplace, to meet updated Gatsby Benchmarks 3 to 7 all in one place.

Case Study: Zara – a u-turn in career ambitions

How a little girl's aviation ambition became lost and then had it's happy ever after.

Volunteer scheme

Our Volunteer Scheme recognises all the truly brilliant volunteers that inspire young people with their career journeys. This is our way of saying thank you.

blue hexagon logo for the Inspiring the Future volunteer scheme

Why it works

Over 85% of UK secondary schools and 35% of primary schools have signed up.

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

4,850,000 +

interactions between workplace volunteers and young people to inspire diverse futures.

90,000 +

Volunteers signed up to inspire young people

It's research based

Our many research studies show the impact of young people chatting – and quizzing – a variety of workplace volunteers. This…

  • Broadens and raises children’s aspirations.

  • Excites them about subjects – so they’re more motivated to learn.

  • Breaks down stereotypes from an early age (5-7 years).

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

Working with

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