In November 2022, Youth Futures Foundation took part in the first iteration of a brand new event – Anthropy. As an official content partner, we took an expert team to the Eden Project, sharing learning and experiences with leaders and influencers from across British business, academic and civic communities.
The event focused on answering fundamental questions shaping the future of Britain, across a diverse set of themes. A key theme on the Anthropy agenda was ‘Our Vibrant Places,’ with place leaders from across the country leading sessions and joining discussions about how “our places need to emerge as new centres of vibrancy and prosperity”.
Youth Futures Foundation believes a place-based approach is key to helping young people into good jobs. In the research that led to the development of our youth employment system map, young people and stakeholders described multiple barriers to getting into good work; many of these are determined by the place a young person lives, learns and works in.
Their stories around services that don’t provide joined-up, consistent help to find work, right across their individual journeys from education to employment, informed the development of our £16m Connected Futures programme: a place-based approach which puts young people at the heart of locally-tailored solutions. This made engaging with leaders on place-based change a priority for our team at Anthropy.
