Youth participation is central to our work as an organisation. Embedding youth voice ensures we stay true to the principle of ‘nothing about us without us’. As part of this, members of our Future Voices Group have been supporting the delivery of our three strategic...
Dan Jones, Connected Futures Lead at Youth Futures Foundation, comments on the launch of Connected Futures, and explains why a place-based approach is key to helping young people into good jobs. At Youth Futures Foundation, our mission is to improve employment...
The ‘Youth Under Lockdown’ research project was undertaken by the Universities of Durham and Huddersfield. It surveyed nearly one thousand young people (aged 14 to 30) to chart young adults’ experiences of the pandemic and of lockdown. It was carried out in...
Are you a young person from an ethnic minority background interested in sharing your experience through employment? From a young person to a young person We are Isha, Ed and Roshan, members of the Ignite sub-group of the Future Voices Group, a network of...
Our Senior Analysis Manager, Zach Wilson, reflects on July’s labour market stats. As the Conservatives choose a new leader, and Prime Minister, ONS labour market statistics show the polarising labour market for young people, as well as the continued effects of...
Our Strategy Manager, Ryan Howsham, explores why the cost-of-living crisis risks further locking young people facing the greatest disadvantages in the labour market, out of opportunities to access good work. Despite positive signs, too many young people remain pushed...
