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Work Experience

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Nurture bright Futures For All your students

Are you eager to inspire your class, enhance your career education, or secure valuable work experience? You're exactly where you need to be. As the UK’s leading social mobility charity, we can give your students fully funded access to 100s of leading UK employers and a network of over 1,500 influential speakers.

Why get work experience for your students

50%

of students leave school without any work experience. So, you can help to change that statistic.


39%

of ‘top jobs’ go to privately educated people – the 7%. So, your students need help to get ahead.

89%

of students said 
their placement made them feel confident that they could achieve their career goals.

85%

felt well-informed on skills, qualifications, roles and responsibilities, compared to 32% pre-placement.

Why choose Futures For All

01

Network

We open the door to work experience with 100s of prominent employers and talks with over 1,500 inspirational speakers – to build their career knowledge, network and confidence.

02

Support

You can benefit from our dedicated education team support – who will share the latest opportunities, save you time, help make processes simple and hassle-free, and 
provide safeguarding advice.

03

Funding

Our programmes are fully funded and free to access for state schools and colleges like yours, and designed to meet CEIAG objectives, Gatsby Benchmarks, and the Skills Builder Universal Framework.

Access our programmes

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Your 14-19-year-old students can get multi-day in-person, remote or hybrid work experience placements, and 3-5-hour introductory Insight Days with top UK employers – from anywhere in the UK.

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You and your students can search, filter, and sort placements, and browse by career type on our scrollable discovery feed.

Plus, sign in to narrow down by your location and save your favourites.

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Your 11-19-year-old students can access both inspirational and career talks with 
high-profile, influential professionals 
– in-school and online – and browse our impressive talks library.

How getting work experience works

Educator account setup: Futures For All

To access our easy-to-use portal which matches your students to the latest and most relevant placements – both in your area and nationwide.

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Find opportunities

View our online Work Experience Finder discovery feed, filtered for relevance – before sharing placements and managing applications with your students.

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See the impact

Discover impact

As you help nurture their early careers with every experience they add to their CV and each new skill they learn – proven through our placement surveys.

Your resources

A short video on how to create an account and get started.

A great tool to let your students know what’s on offer.

The perfect way to promote opportunities in your school.

Success stories

Hear from Esme, Uisce and Yuvraj

Watch and learn about the impact of work experience on talented young people – when they gave the creative industry a try by joining ad agency, Lucky Generals in their London studio.

Hear from Esme, Uisce and Yuvraj

Watch and learn about the impact of work experience on talented young people – when they gave the creative industry a try by joining ad agency, Lucky Generals in their London studio.

89% of educators said that our work experience programme left their students better informed about 
available careers, giving a 4.9 out of 5-star satisfaction rating.

“Many of our students have participated in varied work experience programmes – all well thought out, with lots of support on promoting and attending placements, and student feedback has been very positive. Remote opportunities have provided access to experiences that would otherwise remain unavailable.”

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Ceri Donovan

Careers Lead, Montpelier High School

“A ready-made extension to our careers offer – with funded opportunities being particularly welcome in giving learners opportunities that they may otherwise not have. This effectively means that the only limitations they have, are those that they impose on themselves.”

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Mr Gordon Neighbour FGS

Careers Leader, Torquay Girls Grammar School

89% of educators said that our work experience programme left their students better informed about available careers, giving a 4.9 out
of 5-star satisfaction rating.

“A ready-made extension to our careers offer – with funded opportunities being particularly welcome in giving learners opportunities that they may otherwise not have. This effectively means that the only limitations they have, are those that they impose on themselves.”

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Mr Gordon Neighbour FGS

Careers Leader, Torquay Girls Grammar School

“Many of our students have participated in varied work experience programmes – all well thought out, with lots of support on promoting and attending placements, and student feedback has been very positive. Remote opportunities have provided access to experiences that would otherwise remain unavailable.”

Smiling woman, headshot

Ceri Donovan

Careers Lead, Montpelier High School

Interested in accessing our programmes or looking for more information?

Quick answers

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