Arrival Education

Daniel Snell founded Arrival Education after his friend's 17-year-old brother was stabbed and killed five years ago. Daniel quit his job at US conglomerate Southwestern and set up a social enterprise that he hopes will "stop young people killing each other".

Along with partner Emily Shenton, they run a four year talent development programme for young people from inner-city communities that not only helps students develop the skills, attributes and values to succeed on the world stage, through partnership with some of the UK's leading businesses, but also seeks to produce positive change in their communities.

Emily and Daniel came to the Learning Launchpad with the concept and their research in July 2007. They secured £25,000 of financial sup port and regular meetings to help develop the programme.

Emily says "Learning Launchpad took us from concept to a successful pilot. By encouraging us to hire an ops director with experience of working with schools and running programmes, we were able to speed up our progress. Their insight into how we could address the social need made all the difference, complementing our business experience well. Working with them has meant that we have made a life-changing difference to our students".

Arrival Education has completed five of its courses in 2008 for 100 students from across London and the south-east. 50 students are now developing their 'Success Skills' in partnership with some of the UK's leading organisations. In 2009 they will be working with 300 students, and aim to work with 2000 students in 2013.

Website: http://www.arrivaleducation.com

Studio Schools

Studio Schools have been designed to help 14-19 year olds better prepare for the world of work. They draw on extensive experience from the UK and around the world and bring together a number of proven elements in a new kind of school that will provide young people with qualifications and a full range of skills - while also engaging them in working in, and running, businesses and social enterprises directly serving customers.

Studio Schools will be small schools of around 300 students. They will teach the national curriculum through interdisciplinary, enterprise-themed projects, but will have a very different style and ethos to most existing schools, with a much stronger emphasis on practical work and enterprise. Every student will have a personal coach; there will be mixed age teams; and the schools will have many of the features of a workplace (like booking holidays). Studio Schools do not aim to replace other secondary schools - but to complement them by providing an alternative approach suitable for young people looking for a more entrepreneurial option or alienated by traditional pedagogy.

Elements of the Studio School model are the subject of a field trial with Barnfield College and Barnfield Academy West in Luton in collaboration with The Innovation Unit. The field trial began in September 2007 with 23 14-year olds and will eventually be scaled up to a full Studio School. The Young Foundation has plans to develop up to six new schools with partners from Tyneside in the North to the East End of London. We are working with Newham Council and College, and the Councils in Barnsley, Blackpool, Kirklees, Oldham, Sheffield, and South Tyneside.

Website: http://studioschoolstrust.org/

Teach Too

Dame Ruth Silver, head of Lewisham College, came to us with an idea in 2007 to set up a part-time route for mid-career professionals to pass on their skills in classrooms.

Teach Too is being delivered by a team within the Launchpad and is at the idea stage, and will enable people who love their work and have considerable business or industry experience to pass on their skills to the next generation, while balancing other work or family commitments.

We believe that creating a structured, part-time, term-time pathway to train and teach young people could have a host of benefits. We know that employers want the young people they receive coming out of schools, to be better equipped to respond to the demands of the workplace.

We know that young people can lack access to successful role models who have "made it" in the areas they are interested in working in; or the kinds of inspiring people who can bring real life examples into the classroom and "walk the walk" as well as "talk the talk". And we know that many talented people who would love to give something back to their community and pass their skills onto the next generation find it difficult to do so, particularly if they need to balance work alongside family commitments.

Faking it

The Faking It television series was a groundbreaking Channel 4 television programme that challenged its participants to 'fake it' in an unfamiliar role and environment. In many cases this led to a fundamental and positive impact on the lives of the 'fakers'.

The idea arose to use the Faking It television programme model as the basis of an intense two‐week transformative programme for young unemployed adults.

The Faking It team within the Launchpad received a £20,000 investment from the Learning Launchpad which enabled them to employ an assistant project developer and run a pilot with partners in East London.

The Learning Launchpad is providing its expertise to thoroughly evaluate the initial pilot and business support in order to create a replicable model that can be rolled out nationally.

The first pilot took place in April 2009 with young unemployed people in the London borough of Newham faking it as restaurant chefs.

Enternships

Enternships is an online service that connects students with internships in entrepreneurial and innovative environments. Raising the profile of entrepreneurial careers, this pathway will broaden young people's approach to careers outside of established organisations.

We worked with the team, lead by Rajeeb Dey, in 2007 providing funding and some support to help them develop a sustainable business model.

Rajeeb is a Trustee and Investment Committee member at Unltd, a UK partner in Peer Venture Partners and on the Education Advisory Board at Channel 4. Previously, he was the President of Oxford Entrepreneurs.

Since receiving Learning Launchpad support, Enternships has received media attention and is rolling out nationally.

Website: http://www.enternships.com/

Fastlaners

Fastlaners is a two week intensive course for graduates who are at the risk of not finding suitable employment. Designed by Launchpad at the Young Foundation, supported by the charity Edge, it focuses on the non-cognitive skills required to help secure graduate employment.

Fastlaners is about connecting the huge pool of graduate talent in Britain with these employers and supporting, training and preparing these graduates for employment.

Fastlaners aims to enable graduates to be able to:

Approach graduate job opportunities will renewed confidence. Bring their experience, skills and understanding to help themselves and others secure interesting and diverse graduate employment Take full advantage of the networking opportunities available to cement and progress a very successful graduate career

The team’s ambitions for Fastlaners is that they will enjoy healthy and happy graduate careers and demonstrate to their employers the multiple benefits of recruiting from a diverse graduate talent pool.

Website: http://www.fastlaners.org.uk

School of Everything

The philosophy behind School of Everything is that everybody has something to teach and everybody has something to learn.

Aiming to do for education what YouTube has done for television, or what eBay did for retail: School of Everything links people who can teach what they know to people who can learn what they don't.

Co-founder Paul Miller came to the Young Foundation with an idea and a group of 5 people interested in making it happen back in 2007. The Young Foundation gave School of Everything their seed funding, the office space to begin work and worked with them on everything from their business model, their strategy and how to raise capital.

Paul says: "Without the Young Foundation we would never have got started. For me the stand out thing was having people we could bounce ideas off and get advice from who had seen it all before."

Since its launch in September 2008, School of Everything continues to go from strength to strength with over 10,000 members (as of January 2009) and counting. Last year, School of Everything won a New Statesman New Media Award, and a prestigious UK Catalyst Award, that recognises the use of technology to make a positive social impact.

Website: http://schoolofeverything.com