Movement to Work is a voluntary collaboration of UK employers committed to tackling youth unemployment through provision of high quality vocational training and work experience opportunities for young people.
From 2025 the Lifelong Loan Entitlement will replace the two existing systems of publicly funded higher education student finance loans and Advanced Learner Loans.
This will give people the opportunity to train and retrain throughout their lives and widens access to more support for mainstream qualifications.
More community projects are set to benefit from funding to rescue prized local assets, such as sports clubs, music venues and historic buildings, as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities launches the third round of its £150 million Community Ownership Fund.
Changes to the fund will make it easier than ever for community groups to seize back control of prized local assets that are at risk of being lost forever – helping to strengthen and level up communities and restore optimism, hope, and pride in the UK.
The Housing Minister has announced more students across England will benefit from a £5,000 bursary to pursue careers as planners designing greener neighbourhoods and thriving towns.
Over 50 young professionals with be offered a bursary through the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) to
study a planning masters, attracting the next generation of students aspiring to train and work in the
planning sector.
This funding from the Department for Levelling Up will back more careers in the planning sector, helping
councils recruit staff and create better communities that people are proud to call home.
A £75 million investment – a further example of how the UK government is growing the economy by helping people set up and run businesses from anywhere in the country and creating more job opportunities in even the most rural areas.
Heineken is receiving £3.7 million to upgrade their Manchester Brewery, including installing technology to recover waste heat from the refrigeration systems used to cool their beer.
Toyota in Derby is receiving over £282,000 to introduce new airless paint sprayers, which use static electricity instead of air, to reduce the amount of energy they need.
Britvic Soft Drinks will use £4.4 million to implement new technologies, including a heat recovery system and Low-Temperature Hot Water network, at its site in east London, where it produces drinks such as Tango and Robinsons.
Kellogg’s in Wrexham will receive funding for a study assessing the possibility of recovering the waste heat from their cereal manufacturing processes to reduce their gas usage.
Tate and Lyle Sugars, which supplies nearly half of all the sugar and syrup on UK supermarket shelves, is receiving over £71,800 to explore how to reduce natural gas use at their Thames Refinery
The scheme will support more than 4,400 jobs across the UK over the next decade. Life-saving emergency services will benefit from greener zero-emission vehicles, thanks to £77 million in new funding for projects developing clean transport technologies, announced recently.
The HYER POWER project, to develop a hydrogen fuel-cell range extender for specialist electric vehicles in demanding roles like fire engines and ambulances is just one of seven pieces of work across the UK that are getting joint Government and industry backing.
The schemes, which range from work on battery-powered buses, to a hydrogen-powered version of the iconic Ford Transit van, will support more than 4,400 jobs across the UK over the next decade, from Bath to Ballymena.
Investing in the development of cutting-edge technologies in key industries will help deliver on the government’s priority to grow the UK economy.
Helping to protect Wales from cyber-attacks, creating new jobs with a pipeline of future talent for the UK’s fast-growing cyber ecosystem is at the heart of a new Cyber Action Plan for Wales.
The plan sets out how Wales’s leading cyber sector can support the growth of the Welsh economy, ensuring Wales can prosper through cyber resilience, talent, and innovation.
A couple of weeks on from our annual CEO Summit and Youth Employability Awards, I’ve been reflecting on how amazing these events were and how important they are to the Movement and to our network.
Some of my top highlights include the open sharing of experiences – we heard from young people about their employment journeys and the barriers they have faced and overcome with the help of supportive employers, while also hearing from businesses about how they are innovating and adapting to support young people into work.
We focused on some of the most pertinent issues which young people have told us they care most about – inclusive recruitment practices, how employers engage them as prospective employees and how businesses can best support their changing needs. We looked at some of the potential solutions and actions employers can take.
We also shared a sneak peek of our forthcoming anniversary campaign content featuring some heroes from across the Movement – more on this soon!
The conversation and general buzz in the room throughout the day (not to mention the celebratory atmosphere during the awards!) really stood out for me. People wanted to listen, to share and to learn – with a healthy dose of fun too!
Hearing the amazing stories of our nominees and winners was also a standout moment – this was our opportunity to celebrate young people who are doing great things in their workplace, as well as some wonderful champions of young people. Huge congratulations again to our award winners and all our nominees!
The events were made even more special as we used the occasion to kick off the charity’s tenth anniversary celebrations. As a Movement, we have helped deliver more than 155,000 opportunities for young people, working with hundreds of individuals and organisations to deliver remarkable experiences. Thank you to every business and partner who has joined us on the journey and helped us to reach this significant milestone.
Between 2013 and 2020 we reached a major milestone of 100,000 opportunities delivered, and today we are already close to 200,000. The pace of change is increasing, and this gives me so much hope and pride.
Because, simply, this means we’re helping even more young people to build their confidence, to develop key skills and provide them with quality work experience that will help to equip them for their future.
This really is vital, as there are many more young people out there who need our support; our work is as crucial as ever.
A final thank you to our sponsors – without your support we couldn’t hold such high quality events – and to all those who attended, contributed and celebrated with us.
To read a summary of our panels and discussions, please see here.
Take a look at some of the event highlights in the videos below – please share on your channels!
We’ve also got hundreds of fabulous pictures from the event – please reach out to the team to claim your photobooth moment!
As always, let me know your thoughts and if you’re not a member of the Movement but would like to join, please get in touch.
