3 Core Programmes
Pledge for Purpose
The Future Ready Foundation (FRF) encourage donors to select a core programme when pledging their support. Donors can choose from the following programmes:
Digital Divide
Social Mobility
Future Careers
Digital Divide
Addressing barriers to accessing technology and developing digital skills that support learning within school, at work, and at home.
- Providing access to technology from basic everyday devices to emerging technologies.
- Facilitating digital skills training for staff in schools, students, parents and wider communities.
- Working with technology industry partners to offer free access to recognised industry certifications
- Delivering STEAM and Digital Skills focused activities in schools and local communities.
Social Mobility
Ensuring people from challenging backgrounds have equal opportunities to better their future through education.
- Providing a safe space in school holidays, which include education programmes and nutritious meals for children and vulnerable families
- Creating enrichment opportunities for educational trips and experiences which otherwise would not be possible.
- Facilitating STEAM-based activities for school children to promote careers in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Arts industries.
Future Careers
Providing career guidance and promoting pathways into STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics) industries, including apprenticeships.
- Delivering career guidance, opportunities to engage with the world of work, support to write a CV, develop interview techniques, and offer active apprenticeship vacancies.
- Supporting environmental and green/sustainability projects in schools.
- Providing young people with employment opportunities in digital industries, such as apprentices with funded salaries that are deployed to support training and digital skills programmes.
- A strong focus on developing digital skills such as interacting with digital services, online safety, social media, Artificial Intelligence, and more.