Impact for scaleups
1,600
Educators participating
30,000
Volunteers on the platform to choose from
42%
Increase in Employer Encounters
330,000
Young people engaged with employers
1,100,000
Employer encounters to date
Key sectors
Founders4Schools is an educational-tech charity giving children and young people the opportunity to meet the people who are creating the jobs of tomorrow in their classrooms today.
The charity’s objective is to achieve three main outcomes:
To do so it works with volunteer business leaders drawn from startup and scaleup businesses and provides a simple free-to-use digital platform for educators to connect with local business leaders and professionals. It supports educators from primary and secondary schools and colleges to organise programme of student-employer encounters for their students, including careers fairs, mentoring sessions, interview practice and career talks.
F4S also developed the innovative Workfinder service to help young people search for work experience. This year – after three years of R&D and endorsement from government departments and industry bodies – Workfinder has been spun out to provide talent acquisition services for scaleups via work experience and internships.