Rockets for All: Mission Complete!
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...
Students Across the UK Fall in Love with Maths at My First Love Event
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...
GLA Community Insights Hub Launches!
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...
Rockets for All takes off!
Exploring the possibilities of a career in space science, close to four thousand students from around the UK joined our Rockets For All workshops. Experts in the space sector– Dr. Helen O'Brien, Taskeen Ali, Professor Mark Sephton, Dr. Simon Foster, Dr. Sunday...
Holocaust 80 – Inspiring survivors
Monday 27 January 2025 marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. Around the world, people are commemorating and hearing the testimonials of the few survivors left. In 2021, we worked with Arsenal FC Academy to...
Innovative food waste project launching in prisons
We're delighted to announce that we are a successful recipient of this year's "Eat It Up" Fund from environmental charity Hubbub. The Fund awards projects that offer bold, creative and innovative solutions to food waste. This grant will support our groundbreaking...