On Monday 17th March 2025, nearly sixteen thousand students from around the UK joined the Rockets for All celebration event with Helen Sharman, the UK’s first astronaut, and explored the possibilities of a career in space.  Helen shared her journey from working at the...

On Valentine’s Day 2025, thousands of students from across the UK discovered a new passion—maths! Big Ideas’ “My First Love: Maths” event brought together over 9,600 young people from 115 schools to celebrate the power of numbers and problem-solving. The event...

The Community Insights Hub is a space designed to help connect community expertise to policy making to support policy design and policy change. The Hub is now live on the GLA website - click here to have a look around.  In 2024 Big Ideas facilitated a content call for...