New ‘Great Exhibition at Home’ challenge launched to inspire young innovators in wake of school shutdown
Digital education pack designed to promote independent learning and foster STEM skills at home The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, the Royal Academy of Engineering and Big Ideas bring you The Great Exhibition at Home Challenge. Take part in structured and...
No Barriers 2020 launches in the Republic of Ireland
This week it is 100 days until the UEFA EURO 2020 tournament kicks off. To mark 60 years of UEFA, football is being played in 12 host cities from Glasgow to Baku. No Barriers 2020 brings the excitement of the tournament into schools and is funded by the Football...
What’s the big idea?
Big Ideas is five this month. In 2015, when Big Ideas was founded, the buzz of the London Olympics was still fresh in our minds. That event not only saw the world come to the UK but, beyond the sport spectacle, it brought the UK together. Whether it was the Olympic...
Foundation Stones at Chelsea Holocaust mural unveiling
‘This mural symbolises three people who loved football and had dreams involving football and what happened to them can’t happen to anybody again so it will make people think and most importantly make them aware of the problems we still face.’ - Cesar Azpilicueta,...
Foundation Stones launches in Wales
In the run up to Holocaust Memorial Day, Big Ideas launched its national commemoration project called Foundation Stones in Wales. Foundation Stones invites everyone to paint a commemorative stone in memory of the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered in...
The Unremembered: Changing the conversation
In World War One the Labour Corps cooked, cleaned, carried and cared for the soldiers on the front line and behind the lines. They built roads and railways, carried the wounded and buried the dead. Men and women from across the Commonwealth made a vital contribution...





