The Association of Colleges: Seeding social action in further education

In 2021, the Association of Colleges (AoC) received generous funding from the Pears Foundation’s #iwill fund to help promote youth social action in further education (FE). We’ve since launched an apprenticeship project, which has seen five social action apprentices placed into FE college partnerships around the country. The aim is not just to provide these apprentices with unique personal development opportunities but to empower the wider staff and student bodies at these colleges to implement social change, have an impact their local communities and raise their college profiles in the process.