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Reach & trust
Community outreach, resident engagement and targeted recruitment that help partners reach local people and meet participation commitments.
Equity • Access • Social value
Opportunity
needs a bridge.
We help organisations turn local commitments into real opportunity. FYF reaches young people and residents, gets them ready, and connects them to skills, employers and paid work. Creative is our core, but our wraparound model opens pathways across construction, retail, hospitality, technology, care and beyond.
Battersea base • South London reach
A local hub for future skills and real progression.
A welcoming base where young people and residents can build confidence, create, learn and connect to the right next step. Delivery can extend through outreach, partner workshops and warm referrals across surrounding boroughs.
Engage
Prepare
Connect
Stay alongside
Progress
Our difference
We hold the whole journey together.
We do not need to deliver every technical course ourselves. FYF coordinates the journey, brings trusted specialists and employers around each participant, and stays involved until the next step is secure.
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Readiness & support
Near-peer mentoring, confidence, CV and interview support, leadership development and practical help that reduce drop-off.
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Skills & job access
Specialist qualifications, expert workshops, insight days and live briefs connected to interviews, placements and genuine vacancies.
Roofing, construction & green jobs
Health and safety, CSCS/CITB preparation, multi-skills, site readiness, apprenticeships and local labour routes.
Retail, hospitality & community
Customer experience, events, health and care, public services, volunteering and resident-led opportunity.
Technology, enterprise & creative
Digital and AI, data and cyber, finance, entrepreneurship, content production and leadership.
A youth-powered creative agency producing useful content for partners while turning real briefs into portfolios, paid experience and progression.
Film & photography
Campaigns, events, interviews and social value storytelling.
Podcasting
Concept, presenting, recording, editing and release.
Social content
Audience-led content shaped for the platform.
Corporate early talent
Build access.
Meet potential.
Grow talent.
A practical way for employers to widen access without lowering the bar. FYF prepares local talent, supports participation and turns one-off engagement into a credible route towards recruitment.
Insight days
Demystify workplaces, roles and routes in.
Live briefs
See talent in action through real challenges.
Mentors
Build confidence, networks and belonging.
Progression
Create warm routes into interviews, placements and roles.
EMPLOYER PATHWAY IN DEVELOPMENT
CH2RGE London
An initial intake of Digital Agent vacancies has been discussed, with scope for further opportunities as the partnership develops. FYF would prepare, screen, mentor and refer suitable young people, then stay alongside them through the opportunity.
Youth Reframe + Youth Advisory Board
Young people help shape programmes, test ideas and influence decisions through co-design, peer leadership and structured youth voice. Partners gain stronger engagement, credible resident insight and clearer evidence of participation.
Ecosystem in action
One ecosystem.
Multiple routes.
Specialists bring facilities and qualifications. Employers bring insight and opportunity. FYF holds the relationship with participants and manages the support around them.
PRACTICAL LEARNING
Creative production
Real equipment, expert guidance and work that builds a portfolio.
PLACE-BASED DELIVERY
Community access
A visible local front door, backed by outreach and borough-wide partnerships.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Skills in practice
Live briefs that turn learning into evidence, confidence and paid opportunity.
Partners and pathways that make progression real
SkillsBuild
CH2RGE London
Employer pathway
Level Up
Mentoring & progression
PARTNERSHIP FILM
Construction pathways with Serious About Youth
See how specialist partners can bring practical site experience, sector insight and progression routes into the wider wraparound model.
Watch on Serious About Youth ↗
Fund a pathway
Back potential.
Fund the next step.
Help underrepresented young people access accredited learning, trusted mentoring, industry relationships and a supported route into their next opportunity.
The thinking behind our work
Talent is everywhere.
Talent is everywhere.
Access and belonging are not.
Young people navigating poverty, mental health challenges, neurodivergence, SEND and exclusion can be exceptionally capable. What is often missing is the trusted support, confidence and relatable networks that help talent become opportunity.
Built from lived experience. FYF founder and CEO Emmanuel Balogun understands what it means to have ability without always feeling included—and the difference that mentoring and relatable role models can make.
Employment
Routes into meaningful work and experience.
Education
Learning, qualifications and informed choices.
Enterprise
Ideas, initiative and economic agency.
Equity
Support shaped around individual barriers.
Engagement
Trusted relationships that make opportunity feel possible.
Our scaffolding approach: we meet people where they are, place practical and relational support around them, and adjust that support as confidence, independence and access grow—moving each person closer to their own positive outcome.
See the pathway in action
Engage. Equip. Progress.
Fund a supported place
Support one young person through accredited learning, mentoring, industry exposure and practical progression planning.
From
£1,500
One participant · One supported journey · Clear outcomes
Back a cohort
Enable eight participants to learn together, respond to a live brief, meet employers and build credible routes forward.
From
£12,000
Eight places · Employer engagement · Impact summary
Become a pathway partner
Invest in sustained local delivery across learning, youth leadership, mentoring, creative opportunity and progression.
Bespoke
Multi-cohort delivery · Place-based impact · Partnership reporting
Headline options are shown for clarity. The full sponsorship pack contains detailed costs, outcomes, partner benefits and tailored opportunities.
Let’s build the right route
Start a partnership conversation.
Tell us what you need to deliver, who you need to reach and what a good outcome looks like. We can shape the right mix of resident engagement, skills, employer access, creative delivery and reporting around your goals.
Section 106 & social value
From commitment to visible impact.
Planning commitments and contract targets matter when local people can feel the benefit. FYF helps developers, contractors and regeneration partners deliver meaningful activity, build resident trust and evidence what changed.
Reach
Local outreach, resident voice and youth engagement.
Readiness
Confidence, CVs, mentoring and employer insight.
Routes
Warm referrals into sector training and jobs.
Evidence
Clear participation, progression and impact reporting.
Designed around people.
A practical local pipeline that can support Section 106, ESG, procurement and social value goals without losing the trust and human support that make progression possible.