by John Newton | Jul 14, 2025 | Employability
The “water cooler” moment, when co-workers chat about TV or the weather, was a famously bonding part of office life before COVID sent everyone home. It’s easy for those who’ve experienced that pre-COVID world to forget the lockdown generation, who finished their...
by John Newton | Jul 10, 2025 | Corporate Partnerships
What business wouldn’t want to boost its performance by a third? During Youth Employment Week we’ve been pondering this question. Having a workforce from a diverse range of backgrounds boosts organisational performance by up to 36%, according to McKinsey. And one way...
by John Newton | Jun 12, 2025 | Corporate Partnerships
Loyalty. Empathy. Grit. This is what young people who’ve overcome barriers to work bring to the businesses that hire them. These are not our words – it’s what the businesses themselves say. Businesses such as Nando’s UK & IRE and EQ Investors I B Corp. For...
by John Newton | May 13, 2025 | NEETs
Today’s figures for the number of young people neither earning nor learning represent a vast array of untapped talent. The official figures, which cover January to March 2025, estimate there were 923,000 people aged 16-24 classed as “not in education, employment or...
