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

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