Practical Solutions

Research is just the starting point; we want to mobilise those within the older generations to help future generations have the same opportunities in practical ways.

We hope to find solutions to the ongoing challenges of educational and social mobility, systemic youth unemployment, housing affordability, and to build communities where young and old learn from each other.

Over time, we hope to develop:

A national mentor programme where successful, older people, who came from humble backgrounds, go back into the communities they came from and help young people fulfil their potential;

A scholarship programme to assist bright, young people, who want to be the first in their family go to a top university, achieve their dream and change their family’s pathways forever;

An investment fund that will assist young people, who have a proven business model, build successful businesses that create jobs and tackle the challenges of today with assistance from older business people as trusted mentors; and

An annual conference where old and young discuss how they can work together on projects that enhance opportunities for future generations.

Over time, we hope to develop:

A national mentor programme where successful, older people, who came from humble backgrounds, go back into the communities they came from and help young people fulfil their potential;

A scholarship programme to assist bright, young people, who want to be the first in their family go to a top university, achieve their dream and change their family’s pathways forever;

An investment fund that will assist young people, who have a proven business model, build successful businesses that create jobs and tackle the challenges of today with assistance from older business people as trusted mentors; and

An annual conference where old and young discuss how they can work together on projects that enhance opportunities for future generations.

These are longer term goals, and we want our research to lead to tangible projects that will make a real difference to young people and the opportunities that they have.

Along the way we want to work with other individuals, companies and charities to build a network of people who share our vision of an ever-brighter future for each new generation.

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20 Old Bailey

London EC4M7AN

info@thefutureisbright.org

Charity Registration No. 1189303