Future Youth

January 25th, 2013 18:30 → January 27th, 2013 18:00

Venue
Forward Foundation, Centro 3, 19 Mandela Street London NW1 0DU
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Been 'n' gone

This gig's over but check out the calendar for the next one.

Whichever way you look at it, young folk are the future. Latest figures from the Government show that almost a million UK people aged between 16 and 24 are unemployed. In their latest UK report The Prince’s Trust and RBS found that more than one in five young unemployed people claim that finding a job in the next year is unachievable. Three in five describe looking for work as demoralizing. At a broader level the idea of this being a ‘lost generation’ is establishing itself fast.

With this in mind we are focusing our January 25-27 London Good for Nothing gig on working with innovative ventures tackling better futures for young people. We're really excited to be working with the following three ventures: discoverables is a website that helps young people develop & showcase their key strengths and soft skills to potential employers, Cultivate London provide food growing training to unemployed youth in disused spaces and Only Connect create a sense of belonging & crime prevention programmes for ex offenders and youth at risk.

Expect a weekend of turbo-charged doing and making, good music & grub in an awesome venue provided by the Forward Foundation!

Shape of the weekend

  • Friday evening briefings and drinks: 6.30pm 9pm
  • Saturday making and doing: 9.30am - 6pm
  • Sunday making and doing: 10am - 5.30pm (final presentations at 4pm)

Lunch, snacks, tea and coffee and drinks will be provided throughout the weekend with kind donations from Innocent Smoothies, Divine Chocolate and Chipotle, Firefly Tonics and London Bio Packaging.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Thank you to our Friends

  • Divine
  • Innocent
  • Chipotle
  • Forward Foundation
  • Firefly Tonics

Who was there?

  • Janet
  • Courtney Linnecar
  • J
  • Alex Watson
  • angelique
  • Sara Ladkani
  • Katya Cofiño Mackie
  • Venya Wijegoonewardene
  • leonardo
  • Steven Champion
  • Elena Manfredi
  • Alex habermehl
  • Sarah Mulcahy
  • Louisa
  • Alasdair North
  • hannah
  • Soph W
  • Luke Harris
  • Maria Ana Neves
  • Anusha Venkataraman
  • Susan Martinez
  • Hannah Grant
  • Heather McMullen
  • Monika
  • Rachna
  • Rina Atienza
  • Noël Theodosiou
  • Arfah
  • Bob
  • Emily Oliver
  • Shyama Sudra
  • Claire Cowper
  • Sarah Atkinson
  • Danielle Agius
  • Bonnie Banerjee
  • John
  • Carolina Izquierdo
  • Sridat Kota
  • Hannah Martin
  • Alexander Kenmure
  • Lorenzo Fruzza
  • Helen Morris
  • Tom James
  • Teresa Aylott
  • Noel Hatch
  • Gina Rembe
  • Greg Mackelden
  • Amy Brooks
  • Ten
  • Hon
  • Niall
  • Chris Packe
  • Laura Coffey
  • Simona Schimanovich
  • Sarah Gill
  • Christoph Warrack
  • Wade
  • Jason Charles
  • Rachel Solomon
  • Joe Ryrie
  • Tal Drori
  • Tom Farrand
  • aliex yuill
  • Izzy Way
  • Heidi Kikoler
  • Rob Maslin
  • Michelle Leeder
  • simrita shaheed
  • Nicola Dillon
  • James Morley
  • Orion Lee
  • Carrina Gaffney
  • Charlene Lam
  • Giles Gibson
  • Samuel Cox
  • mat roberts
  • May Al-Karooni
  • Giuseppe Burdo
  • Emily Underwood
  • Daniel Soltis
  • Jim Holt
  • Dan Burgess
  • tansy drake
  • Stephen King