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How young people and schools benefit from effective
partnerships between education and employers
www.inspiringthefuture.org
An independent charity: Established in 2009
Our vision: to ensure that every school and college has an effective partnership with
employers to provide its young people with the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills
and opportunities they need to help them achieve their potential and so to secure the
UK's future prosperity.
Our Partnerships Board
Senior representatives of the national organisations representing schools and colleges;
...and employers;
What we do:
Free services like ‘Inspiring the Future’ – working in partnership with schools
Research
Practical Solutions
Taskforce/YouGov 2011 survey, 986 young adults (19-24):
Q1: How many different occasions do you remember employer involvement (work experience,
mentoring, enterprise competitions, career advice, CV or interview practice) when you were
at school?
Number
0
of
Occasions
NEET
26%
Source: It’s who you meet, 2012
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2
3
4 or
more
23%
17%
16%
4%
...against teenage aspirations
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What is Inspiring the Future?
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Inspiring the Future is a FREE service whereby employees from all sectors and professions from
Apprentices to CEOs pledge one hour a year to volunteer to go into state schools and colleges to
talk about their jobs, careers, and the education routes they took
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It is a FREE service endorsed by Government (with cross-party support), the UK’s main teacher and
employer representative organisations and many leading employers
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It makes a difference to young people. Good quality research shows that who you meet as a
teenager shapes the success with which young people go into adult life
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Teachers overwhelmingly want young people to hear more from people in the workplace
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Benefits for Schools and Colleges
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Over 14,500 diverse volunteers waiting for teachers to invite them to talk to their pupils about their jobs, and
the routes they took to get there, or even CV and interview insights at the click of a button
How does it work
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When teaching staff log on to the system, they get a list of all those people registered in their area who can speak
to young people about different specialisms and activities, and it’s a simple process to send a message through
the system to get in touch
Specialisms
Apprenticeships
Design and Manufacturing
Activities
Career Insights
Help with CVs
Enterprise/Entrepreneurs
Mock Interviews
Maths – Using it at work
Numeracy relating to careers
(Primary)
Reading relating to careers
(Primary)
Being contacted about becoming a
school governor
Science and Technology
Languages – French,
German, Italian, Spanish,
Russian, Mandarin,
Japanese, Urdu, Arabic
"The applicants really enjoyed the session and it was great to have help from such an enthusiastic and knowledgeable
volunteer. In fact, 2 out of the 6 applicants who attended the session on 17th January, have since secured an Apprenticeship
position which is brilliant". Northampton College
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Types of Events – Schools/Colleges use ITF for
Careers Networking
Types of Events you could
run
Careers Fairs
Careers Networking
Options Evenings
‘Career Insight’ Talks
CV & Interview Technique
Workshops
What’s my line?
‘Enterprise Insight Talks’
School Assemblies
Curriculum Enrichment
Lunchtime Events
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Careers Fair
Talk
Signing up is quick and easy
Go to www.inspiringthefuture.org and click
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in the top right corner, then click
Getting started - Finding volunteers
Log in and choose the
‘Find Volunteers’ tab to
find potential
volunteers.
Setting up your search
Step 1 - The local authority will automatically be selected for your school or college
Step 2 – Use the drop down menu on the right to select activities and subject specialism/ sectors.
Step 3 - You can also choose whether to sort the volunteer list alphabetically or by newest volunteer first
Viewing potential matches
Finding out more about a volunteer
Under the ‘Info’
heading click on
‘View’ on any
volunteer to see
more information
about them (as
seen in the pop-up
box on the right).
This will help you
make a decision
about which
volunteer to
approach for your
activity.
Example of volunteer profile
Messaging your chosen volunteer
Once you have decided
which volunteer to
approach, click on the
‘Message’ button next
to their name
Under ‘Actions’. Write a
brief message to the
volunteer in the
Message box introducing
yourself, and let them
know about the activity
you have in mind.
Once you have finished
drafting the message,
click ‘Send’.
Mass Message
To message more than one volunteer at a time. Simply click in the box under the heading ‘Mass Message’ by all the volunteers you would like
to select, and then click ‘Message All’.
You will then create a message in the usual way,
but when you click ‘Send’ it will go to all the
volunteers you have selected without the need
to send individual messages.
Sending a message
Receiving a message
Once your message has been sent, your chosen volunteer will be notified.
When they reply, you will be notified by email and asked to log in to your profile. You’ll see the new message
on your home page, in the ‘My Messages’ section. To view the reply simply click on the message subject.
Viewing your message
If you wish to send
another message to the
volunteer you can do so
by typing in the reply box
and then clicking ‘Reply’.
If you want to come back
to the message another
time you can mark it as
unread, by clicking the
‘Mark as Unread’ button.
If you have to send a
message prior to knowing
the event date, you can
add the date later but you
need to click ‘Update’
Viewing an activity
The message thread will appear on your
home page under ‘My Messages’. Click
on the message name on your home to
view the details.
Completing your feedback
24 hours after the event
takes place, you will get an
email notifications asking
you to log in and complete
the ‘My Feedback’ section of
the home page.
Simply click on the ’Click to
complete’ link.
Completing your feedback
Once you have completed
the relevant sections, click
on the ‘Submit Feedback’
button, and you’ll be taken
back to the home page to
find your next volunteer!
Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women Campaign
• The Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women campaigns aims to get 15,000 inspirational women by the end of 2014 into
schools, talking to girls to broaden their horizons and raise aspirations
Follow the Inspiring Women blog: www.itfinspiringwomen.wordpress.com
Inspiring the Future: Designed & Made Week (30th June – 4th July)
Designed & Made week focuses on careers in design and manufacturing and we hope that this
will encourage far more young people to embrace careers in this sector.
Throughout the week people who design and make: from airplanes and ceramics, to mobile apps
and websites or whatever requires good design and craftsmanship will be visiting schools and
colleges across the country talking to young people.
The campaign links to Miriam González Durántez’s Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women
campaign We want to put the spotlight on women working in design and manufacturing and a
number of highly successful women will be visiting schools across the country that week.
Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Languages
Already there are hundreds of volunteers who use languages in their jobs who've
offered to go into schools to talk to pupils from lawyers to engineers and
psychologists, from a range of organisations.
Languages include French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese,
Urdu, and many more.
Inspiring Languages Week is promoted jointly by charity the Education and Employers
Taskforce, the British Council, the British Academy, Speak to the Future, Routes into
Languages and many other organisations
Example of some of the Employers and Professional bodies signed up
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Key Contacts
Department
Name
Job Title
Email Address
Telephone
Number
Inspiring the Future
Director
Phil Pyatt
Director – Inspiring
the Future
[email protected]
0203 206 0454
Schools Team
Charlotte
Lightman
Schools Liaison
Manager
[email protected]
0203 206 0510
Schools Team
Tamanna Ali
Schools Liaison
Assistant
[email protected]
020 3206 0510
Schools Team
Alasdair Smith
Schools and Business
Development
Coordinator
(Scotland)
[email protected]
020 3206 0510
[email protected]
0203 206 0510
General Enquiries
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