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Work Experience For All campaign
In 2022/23, we ran our largest-ever public campaign: Work Experience for All, with the aim to:
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Remove systemic barriers to make work experience a universal right for every young person in the country.
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Raise awareness of the danger of ignoring the problem.
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Raise support to convince the two main political parties to include fully funded access to work experience in their manifestos.
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Increase the number of registrations and applications for work experience through our work experience programme.
We help all young people from state schools and colleges to access our fully funded Work Experience and Speakers for Schools programmes. Ready to join us in our mission?
Why work experience matters
It levels up
Privately educated students are 2x as likely to do multiple work experience placements, without a fair playing field.*
Lifts future salary
For each additional type of work experience undertaken, future annual earnings increase by £1,088.*
Ups employability
Attending work experience reduces a young person’s chance of becoming NEET from 11 to 7%.*
Yet, 50%
of young people leave school without doing any work experience.*
*Based on the results of a YouGov survey of 2,098 18-30-year-olds
Work Experience For All: The full story case study
As part of this hard-hitting, evidence-based campaign, our charity secured unprecedented pro bono support, generated extensive press coverage – including a 6-minute slot on BBC Breakfast – and made serious headway in moving work experience up the agenda for the two main political parties.
Ready to see how we set about making work experience a national talking point?
Discover our campaign
Work Experience For All: Campaign film
Which Dragon’s Den star did work experience as a bingo caller? Which comedian fell asleep in reception, and which money-saving expert saved B&Q thousands of pounds?
Check out ten celebs’ work experience stories.
Get involved
The campaign might be over but there’s still work to do, find out how you can get involved and help ALL our young people get access to the work experience opportunities they deserve.
Educators
Educators
Explore how we can help your young people find unique and exciting work experience opportunities with world-class companies.
Access to our fully funded work experience programme comes at no cost to you, your school or college, or your students.
Looking for more information or ready to support our Work Experience for All campaign?
Please get in touch: policy@futuresforall.org