How young people and schools benefit from effective
partnerships between education and employers
www.inspiringthefuture.org
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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. An independent charity:
Established in 2009 Our Partnerships Board Senior representatives
of the national organisations representing schools and
colleges;...and employers;
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What we do: Free services like Inspiring the Future working in
partnership with schools ResearchPractical Solutions
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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? Source: Its who you
meet, 2012 Number of Occasions 01234 or more
NEET26%23%17%16%4%
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...against teenage aspirations
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What is Inspiring the Future? 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 It is a FREE service endorsed by
Government (with cross-party support), the UKs main teacher and
employer representative organisations and many leading employers 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 Teachers overwhelmingly want young people
to hear more from people in the workplace 7
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8 "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 17
th January, have since secured an Apprenticeship position which is
brilliant". Northampton College Benefits for Schools and Colleges
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 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 its a simple process to send a message through the
system to get in touch SpecialismsActivities ApprenticeshipsCareer
Insights Design and ManufacturingHelp with CVs
Enterprise/EntrepreneursMock Interviews Maths Using it at work
Numeracy relating to careers (Primary) Science and Technology
Reading relating to careers (Primary) Languages French, German,
Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Urdu, Arabic Being
contacted about becoming a school governor
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9 Types of Events Schools/Colleges use ITF for Careers
Networking Careers Fair Talk Types of Events you could run Careers
Fairs Careers Networking Options Evenings Career Insight Talks CV
& Interview Technique Workshops Whats my line? Enterprise
Insight Talks School Assemblies Curriculum Enrichment Lunchtime
Events
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11 Signing up is quick and easy Go to
www.inspiringthefuture.org and clickwww.inspiringthefuture.org in
the top right corner, then click
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Getting started - Finding volunteers Log in and choose the Find
Volunteers tab to find potential volunteers.
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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
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Viewing potential matches
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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.
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Example of volunteer profile
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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.
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Sending a message
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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. Youll see
the new message on your home page, in the My Messages section. To
view the reply simply click on the message subject.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Completing your feedback Once you have completed the relevant
sections, click on the Submit Feedback button, and youll be taken
back to the home page to find your next volunteer!
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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.comwww.itfinspiringwomen.wordpress.com
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Inspiring the Future: Designed & Made Week (30 th June 4 th
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
Gonzlez Durntezs 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
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26 Example of some of the Employers and Professional bodies
signed up
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Key Contacts 27 DepartmentNameJob TitleEmail AddressTelephone
Number Inspiring the Future Director Phil PyattDirector Inspiring
the Future [email protected] 206 0454
Schools TeamCharlotte Lightman Schools Liaison Manager
[email protected] 206 0510 Schools
TeamTamanna AliSchools Liaison Assistant
[email protected] 3206 0510 Schools
TeamAlasdair SmithSchools and Business Development Coordinator
(Scotland) [email protected] 3206 0510
General [email protected] 206 0510
