by Laura Mountain | May 22, 2020 | Connecting our communities
City & Guilds has been a strategic partner of MyKindaFuture for a long time. We’ve always been closely aligned with their belief that everyone should have equal power and opportunity to shape their future – wherever they come from, whatever their experience, and...
by Michael Osbaldeston | May 22, 2020 | Connecting our communities, News, Princess Royal Training Awards
It’s fair to say, that no one alive has ever experienced a time like this. You have to go back to the post-WW1 flu, the cholera epidemics that would lead to modern sanitation, The Black Death and the great plagues. For all of us, it really is unprecedented, and it...
by Lauren Roberts | Apr 14, 2020 | Connecting our communities, Youth engagement
Our research tells us that long before the pandemic young people often struggle to enter the world of work. Depending on who you know your experience of moving from education to paid work can be a real struggle and one in which many obstacles must be overcome. Through...
by Polly Adamson | Apr 9, 2020 | Connecting our communities, News, Social investment
The City & Guilds Foundation, along with a wider group of funders, recognise that the covid-19 outbreak is an exceptional event that will have an impact on civil society groups, and want to offer reassurance that we stand with the sector during this time. We wish...
by Julia Bena | Apr 6, 2020 | Advocacy, Alumni, Connecting our communities
Though working from home is common, it’s a whole different kettle of fish when you’re forced to work remotely. And for some, that kettle of fish is literal. ‘My partner cooked fish for lunch today – very inappropriate as my office area is the kitchen/dining table.’...
by Sally Eley | Mar 31, 2020 | Connecting our communities, News
No one is untouched by Covid-19, and we are humbled by seeing so many of our communities and partners responding with such energy and grace to what is a difficult time for people and societies all over the world. We know that people need support now, to help them get...
