Calling all Live UnLtd Award Winners! We have a fantastic opportunity for you! And the deadline is the 2nd of April! We have teamed up with The Do Lectures to offer you something very special – the chance to attend an ideas festival for people like you who want to start something and make a
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“This trip to me was life changing,” says Luke Rodgers about his recent trip to Serbia, “to meet so many people from different countries was eye-opening and an experience that I find hard to put into words.” Well, we asked him to give it a go! Luke is a Live UnLtd Award Winner who recently
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We recently ran an Active Citizens event inviting some of our Award Winners to think about how they’re tackling social problems in their area, and how that fits into the bigger picture. One of our Development Managers, Caroline, was at the event, and she’s written this post to tell us all a little more about it.
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This week we spoke to Luke Rodgers, a Live UnLtd Award Winner who provides workshops and training to people involved in foster care. Luke has first-hand experience of growing up in foster homes and social care, and it was this experience that inspired him to start his project to try and improve the system where he
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Later this week we’ll be putting up a post about Luke Rodgers, a Live UnLtd Award Winner who provides workshops and training to people involved in the social care sector. Luke has first-hand experience of growing up in foster homes and social care, and it was this experience that inspired him to start his project
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It’s Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), the world’s largest campaign to promote entrepreneurship, and to mark the event we’re bringing you a series of posts about all things entrepreneurial. Create Your Career You might have an image of an entrepreneur from Dragon’s Den, or The Apprentice (you’ll know that we have teamed up with Apprentice star
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What makes a great entrepreneur? Creativity and courage are key themes for Lorraine Allman in her new book, Enterprising Child. In the book she features some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs. One of those entrepreneurs was Live UnLtd Award Winner, Adam Bradford. Adam, 20, has started a string of projects and businesses, beginning at
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We were at Youth Enterprise Live this month talking to people about how we back people who want to change their world. Youth Enterprise Live is an event focusing on employment, education and enterprise for 15-30 year olds. People are brought together to talk about solutions to create a more productive and empowering future for
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We’re all excited to be supporting the Forward Foundation in a competition to find the best new ideas for using technology to help people find work – Tech2Job. Find out more, here: TECH2JOB» We’ve always backed lots of technology projects at Live UnLtd – whether it be running a web TV channel, doing web and graphic design, music production
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American marketing guru Jack Myers believes that the current crop of students are a unique generation and represent a bridge between the pre- and post-internet age. What does this mean? Well, according to Jack they’re ‘internet pioneers’ because they’re the first generation who have always lived with the Internet. And as a consequence, he says,
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Image credit: flickingerbrad under creative commons If you were picking up your GCSE or A Level results over the past couple of weeks, we hope you got what you were hoping for! Do you ever think about the way that you’ve been taught? And how things will change in the future? Are you planning on going
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How would you like to see education change? Do you think more technology is needed? Do you think young people need to be taught differently? Lots of people will be going back to school over the next couple of weeks. When we go back to school we might not be thinking about how the education
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Image credit: Shermeee under Creative Commons We previously brought you some ways in which technology is changing the way we learn. But not all schools have access to expensive gadgets. And not all learning and experience necessarily has to be gained in the classroom. There are plenty of other ways that learning can be made fun and
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Image credit: flickingerbrad under creative commons If you were picking up your GCSE or A Level results over the past couple of weeks, we hope you got what you were hoping for! Do you ever think about the way that you’ve been taught? And how things will change in the future? Are you planning on going
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Stanley from Urban Fresh We’re always sharing at Live UnLtd. We’ve been talking about music all this week, about the way it affects people, how the Internet has changed things, and the way it can be used to change our world. You can keep up to date with everything we’re sharing on Twitter and Facebook. The Power Of
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It’s been a hot and sunny week (as suggested by the melted ice cream van we spotted yesterday!). We hope you’ve been able to enjoy summer’s belated arrival in the week leading up to the start of London 2012! Some of you will be kicking back and relaxing – and so you should. It’s the
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This year youth unemployment will cost the UK government £4.8bn. There is talk of a ‘lost generation’ of young people who which will not realise their potential due to a severe lack of employment opportunities and too many leaving education with too few skills. But it’s not all doom and gloom (honest!). While it may be true
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Luke Rogers is one of four Live UnLtd Award Winners invited to participate at an Enterprise Lab debate on youth unemployment and youth enterprise at the House of Commons in London on Tuesday evening. We asked Luke some questions about his thoughts on social enterprise and what he hopes to discuss. Hi Luke. Have you noticed high levels
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Four Live UnLtd Award Winners from across the country have been invited to participate at a debate on youth unemployment and youth enterprise being held at the House of Commons in London. Enterprise Lab has asked Joel Davies, Jordan Muzio, Luke Rogers and Peter Olawaye (pictured above) to share their views on youth unemployment and
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Far too many young people do not have any contact with employers and therefore are likely to be totally unprepared for the world of work. That is the finding of the first report of its kind into how employers can support youth services. The study looked at all previous research on the topic and concludes that more UK
Read MoreThanks to the internet and smart phone technology millions of us are able to interact in ways that until the last decade was merely the stuff of science fiction. Now more than ever great ideas can harness the power of technology to make positive changes in people’s lives. With well over a million apps in
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“A goal is a dream with a deadline”, Napoleon Hill. Here’s another chance to take a look at some of the things that we’ve been shouting about this week. We’re always sharing stories about people who are changing their world for the better, and giving you tools and tips to help you do the same.
Read MoreThe latest figures show that more 16-18-year-olds are leaving school and college without finding a job. Last year 8.1% of 16 to 18-year-olds – that’s 154,710 individuals – were not in education, employment or training (Neet), which is up from 7.5% in 2010. There was also a slight fall in the percentage of those under
Read MoreIt seems every week another report is published that contains bad news for those leaving school, college or university. According to the latest, from the Intergenerational Foundation, younger people in the UK are losing out badly relative to older generations. In fact, the prospects of younger people have “nose-dived” since the start of the financial
Read MoreThe Work Foundation, an indpendent research body and a part of Lancaster University, has warned that the government’s response to the youth unemployment crisis is insufficient and fragmented. A Work Foundation report, entitled “Short Term Crisis, Long Term Problem: Addressing the Youth Unemployment Challenge”, calls for the creation of a Youth Employment Unit. It argues
Read MoreThe number of NEETs (people Not in Education, Employment or Training) aged 16-24 who are not in paid work has risen in the past ten years, according to a report published today. The number without any paid work experience at all has risen from 41% in 2001 to 48% in 2007 and 2011. The report suggests
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Here are some of the stories of people changing their world for the better we’ve been talking about this week. First up is one of ours – It’s the launch of the Summer Of Great Ideas. We’re looking for the next set of great ideas to back this summer, and so this story is really about
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Live UnLtd congratulates Hannah Catmur and Blessing Maregere who have both been chosen as one of 8 Pioneers to be in with a chance of joining Richard Branson at his family home in Oxford this month. The final 4 will spend a day pitching their business plans to Richard and be in with a chance of winning
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