@alexkfreeman.bsky.social
Communications and Media Officer at Impetus Please reach out with media enquires on school engagement, oracy, the attainment gap, or youth employment:)
While some experts argue that AI is the next frontier of tutoring and will make targeted tuition more reliable and accessible, others have urged caution.
Read Impetus Head of Policy and Research @brgadsby.bsky.social’s analysis in Schools Week: schoolsweek.co.uk/the-companie...
Our Director of Public Affairs, Steve Haines, shares how we can take practical measures to ensure talented young people are being seen by employers, in a conversation with Tony Livesey on @bbc5live.bsky.social
Listen to segment in full, starting at 1:18:50: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
For more than 20 years, Impetus has helped deliver meaningful results for our partners who support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Read about our sustainable, impact-focused philanthropic model in our new blog.
www.impetus.org.uk/news-and-vie...
Read our Portfolio Director’s new blog on how our philanthropic model has helped transform the lives of thousands of young people, over 20 years.
In the latest issue of Philanthropy Impact Magazine 👇
www.impetus.org.uk/news-and-vie...
New: Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, with low qualifications & special educational needs, are more than 3x as likely to be out of work than the avg. young person.
youtu.be/VpDTlukL2_A
Read the full report here: www.impetus.org.uk/youthjobsgap...
.@ayeshabaloch.bsky.social, our Senior Policy Advisor, lays the groundwork for a successful collaboration between The Third Sector Forum & OfS Equality Agenda, exploring what it takes to make meaningful progress on creating equal opportunities for every young person 👇
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/03/28/c...
Last week with @thedifferenceed.bsky.social @ippr.bsky.social @mission44.bsky.social, we held a launch event for our Who Is Losing Learning report: Finding solutions to the school engagement crisis.
To turn the tide of lost learning, the education system must evolve.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhaW...
I've had so much fun working on the social media campaign for the Who Is Losing Learning? Coalition, and it's great to see the Solutions Report landing so well!
Check out our recommendations👇👇👇
We hosted our quarterly Communications Forum yesterday, bringing together communications leads from across our portfolio to explore one of the thorniest issues facing organisations today – crisis communications. 🧵
12.02.2025 11:14 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0I loved learning about the incredible work of both these organisations in the lead-up to this announcement - so excited that Impetus is working with them!
29.01.2025 11:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🧵A few weeks ago, the Department for Work and Pension
published their Employment Data Lab analysis of outcomes for our portfolio partner, Generation UK's flagship programme between March 2019 - April 2022.
🧵We were pleased to read such a generous endorsement of our work in the @financialtimes.com’s Working It newsletter last week. Isabel Berwick
highlighted our “venture philanthropy” model, calling it “an interesting innovation in the way pro bono partnerships work.”
ft.com/content/b8a2...
"Against the backdrop of nearly a million young people out of education, employment, or training – a shocking waste of human potential – the policies set out in today’s white paper must reach those who need them most."
See Impetus' full statement on how to measure the success of these new policies.
Yesterday’s data from the ONS shows a staggering 946,000 young people aged 16-24 in the UK are not in education, employment, or training (NEET).
In addressing this, @brgadsby.bsky.social, our Head of Policy and Research, commented:
