Join our team at Youth Futures Foundation! 🌟

Are you passionate about making a difference in young people's lives? If the answer is yes, we hope you can help us shape the future of youth employment. Take action and apply here: ⬇️

youthfuturesfoundation.org/about-us/jobs/…

Our Connected Futures partnerships are entering a new phase and we're seeking partners to join us! 📢

Together, we'll tackle challenges faced by disadvantaged youth and explore innovative solutions.

Learn more about how you can become a partner⬇️

youthfuturesfoundation.org/news/help-shap…

At Youth Futures, we're committed to helping disadvantaged young people find work.

Those with learning disabilities or autism (LDA) often face extra barriers. Our new report from Cordis Bright explores how to best support them.

Read more ⬇️
youthfuturesfoundation.org/news/supportin…

Our Youth Voice team recently attended the Youth Futures Foundation Connected Futures: Youth Led Event.

It was fantastic to meet/hear from other partnerships and we can't wait to explore ways to use what we have learned.

Read more: bit.ly/3vGaIV8

#YouthVoice D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership Nottinghamshire County Council

We're celebrating #NationalSupportedInternshipDay by showcasing employers working in partnership with the fantastic DFN Project SEARCH HQ.📖

📚Meet Wayne, currently interning at Amazon's Doncaster fulfilment centre, and Harry, an intern at HM Revenue & Customs.

Read more:
youthfuturesfoundation.org/news/toolkit-u…

This week we hosted a roundtable to discuss youth participation in research and evaluation. The group shared experiences in implementing participatory methods and explored more ideas.

Thank you to colleagues from Centre for Evidence and Implementation Foundations Ageing Better Youth Endowment Fund Youth Employment UK

Our latest Toolkit Unwrapped is out! 🔍

Take a look at our resources to learn more about on-the-job training and how your organisation or company could take the first steps to enhance your youth employment offering.

youthfuturesfoundation.org/news/toolkit-u…

Thrilled to announce that Hamara Healthy Living Centre has been selected to lead a £1.7m project targeted at young people with Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage living in Leeds and Bradford with the aim to tackle workplace discrimination and support employment opportunities.

🏆Our #researchoftheweek goes to Youth Futures Foundation for their survey on ‘Discrimination and work.' 🧵⬇️

It found that 48% of young people have experienced prejudice/discrimination when entering the workplace. (1/6)

youthfuturesfoundation.org/discrimination…

Latest government stats out yesterday. Poverty levels for young heads of families are shocking:

Poverty rates (after housing costs):
🔴No kids: age 16-19 = 30%; age 20-24 = 22%

❗️With kids: age 16-24 = 56%
(materially deprived + in low income = 40%)

gov.uk/government/sta…

Our Board member, Lord Simon Woolley, was featured on Sky News this afternoon, discussing our recent survey of young people from ethnic minority backgrounds and its findings.

Find out more about the report, here: youthfuturesfoundation.org/discrimination…

Youth Futures Foundation has conducted the largest survey in the UK of young people from ethnic minority backgrounds – the results reveal that 48% of young people have experienced prejudice or discrimination when entering the workplace:

youthfuturesfoundation.org/discrimination…

👏 Thank you to everyone who attended conference yesterday with Youth Futures Foundation : 'A country for young people: tackling intergenerational inequality

Missed it? You can watch Laura Trott's keynote speech here 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=jhle-s…