Young minds, boundless creativity…

As part of The Great Exhibition Road Festival 2024 in South Kensington, Big Ideas curated The Great Exhibition² Tent. The tent displayed prototypes created by pupils who took part in the The Great Exhibition² programme from 20 schools representing Hammersmith &...

No barriers for young people seeking career opportunities

One year on, we wanted to reflect on Futures for All, the co-produced, youth-centred employability programme for young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) sector in Greater Manchester.   The programme Futures for All was a positive...

When I grow up

On 18 October 2023, over 3600 young people from schools across Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire became engineers for an hour designing vehicles of the future with RAF Fast Jet Engineer Sergeant Chris Broadwith.  A partnership with the RAF Youth STEM and Lincoln...

Work Stories – a new, innovative employability course in prisons

Five ex-prisoners with stories to tell have taken part in Work Stories – a new and innovative approach to job skills training, funded by the Ministry of Justice as part of their digital innovation fund. What is work stories? Made by the people who know best,...

Don’t run from your mental health

Big Ideas worked with students at New River College, a Pupil Referral Unit in Islington, to create two short films about Mental Health. Funded by Islington Giving, Young Grant Makers, this project allowed agency to young people to talk about how they manage their own...

STEM with Wings takes off with NASA and the RAF

STEM with Wings launched as Primary Schools from across the UK were joined by NASA Robotics Engineer Ashitey Trebi-Ollenu, the man who lives on earth…but works on Mars.  Taking over 9,000 young people through his journey from Ghana, to the UK, to NASA – Ashitey...