News from The Love Local Jobs Foundation

We had our final event last Thursday, which means that's it for the Dare to Dream programme over the Summer months.

There are few things we like more than welcoming new schools and new sponsor businesses onto the Dare to Dream programme, and we were delighted to do just that in April. As the programme continues to grow and reach further afield, we were thrilled to partner up the Year 9s at Oxted School in Surrey with the fantastic global engineering and professional services firm, WSP, both new to the programme. Likewise, we're so pleased to have Carpenter Box as a sponsor once again and t

The charity and the Dare to Dream programme mean something different to each of us, so with Valentine's Day just around the corner, we asked our amazing team to tell us what it is THEY love about the work they do and what working at The Love Local Jobs Foundation means to them...

As our final Dare to Dream events of 2025 come to an end, we wanted to share a short message of thanks and, in the spirit of Christmas, ask for your support to help us reach even more young people in 2026.

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and supporters, We're two months into the 2025/26 academic year, which means we're two months into delivering the Dare to Dream programme to a brand-new year group and doing all we can to create a community where every young person is inspired and empowered to become their best self 💪 Today's young people are facing growing issues around confidence, aspiration and direction. Dare to Dream presents a real chance for us all to suppor

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and network of supporters, The end of the academic year is just around the corner but the team are still hard at it. June was an incredible month which saw us deliver a mix of in-school Dare to Dream events and modern workplace experiences for a whopping 2,300+ students. A fantastic achievement by the team and everyone involved in enabling these essential, careers-led interactions that play such a vital role in the personal developm

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and network of supporters, What a cracking month we had in May. The last few weeks have seen the team deliver Dare to Dream events to over 1,400 incredible young people across Sussex and get up to plenty behind the scenes with a number of our wonderful sponsors and schools. We announced some pretty big news for the Foundation too which we're excited about - more on that below... With the final weeks of the school Summer Term coming

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and network of supporters, April was another fantastic month for us here at the Love Local Jobs Foundation, with over 1,600 students taking part in Dare to Dream events! Following a lovely Easter Break, we entered the Summer Term full of excitement at what's ahead for the remainder of the school year, including the launch of several new partnerships to look forward to! But before all that, there were plenty of highlights to look bac

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and network of supporters, March was our best month yet—brilliantly busy and packed with impact! We delivered 15 school events, six workplace visits, and reached 3,000 students. It was a record-breaker for 1:1 mentoring sessions, volunteer involvement, and Dare to Dream assemblies! We also launched new partnerships, wrapped up others for the academic year, and hosted plenty of workplace visits. As April begins, here’s a look back at

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and network of supporters, Spring Term is well and truly underway and January has absolutely flown by! The new year offers plenty more opportunities to deliver even more amazing Dare to Dream programmes and we're excited to see the existing and brand new partnerships between the wonderful schools, students, businesses and mentors flourish over the coming months. It's been a brilliant first few weeks of 2025. Here are just a few of t

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and network of supporters, It was full steam ahead in November as the team delivered 18 Dare to Dream programmes to over 2,000 students with the help of our wonderful supporting businesses! We were lucky to have 9 workplace visits to attend, which were amazing as ever. A huge thanks go to everyone involved behind the scenes and on the day for all your hard work in making these events so engaging and rewarding. As we enter the final

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and network of supporters, The 24/25 academic year is underway and the team are thrilled to be back to it, delivering the Dare to Dream programme to students across Sussex once again! We've been busy over the Summer months refining and improving our programmes to ensure everyone involved gets as much as they possibly can from Dare to Dream. You’ll hear all about this in our soon to be released Annual Impact Report! The good news is,

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and network of supporters, Our final Dare to Dream event of the 2023/24 school year took place this month, drawing to a close another incredible year full of so much worth celebrating and to be proud of. We’re absolutely delighted to have completed our first academic year as a fully-fledged registered charity and to continue building on the wonderful work that we’ve been so grateful to deliver. The 2024/25 Academic year will be our

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and network of supporters, May was another cracking month, and we were delighted to deliver a number of Dare to Dream programmes to almost 2,000 amazing young people across Sussex, including the launch of brand new partnerships and some fantastic workplace visits! With the final weeks of the Summer term ahead, we're pleased to say there are still plenty of Dare to Dream events to look forward to! In the meantime, here's a look back

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and network of supporters, April was another fantastic month for us here at the Love Local Jobs Foundation, and following the Easter Break, we entered the Summer Term full of excitement at what's ahead over the next few months, including several new partnerships to look forward to! But before all that, there were plenty of highlights to look back on throughout April... READ MORE: Crawley Borough Council helps students Dare to Dream

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and network of supporters, We were delighted to launch several new partnership with brand-new supporting businesses and schools throughout March as we continue work hard to extend the reach of the delivery of the Dare to Dream programme across Sussex! As well as these new partnerships, we wrapped up a number of existing programmes, attended a whole host of fantastic workplace visits, celebrated our very own Christina's 7 year annive

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and network of supporters, February was another brilliant month here for everyone involved with Dare to Dream. We launched several new programmes, wrapped up one or two more as well, and even with the Half Term week, we delivered the programmes to over 1,700 fantastic students across Sussex! We've got plenty to look forward to in March, but first, here are some of the highlights from February! Scroll down to take a look... Meet our

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and network of supporters, We're well and truly into the new Spring Term and it's been an absolutely brilliant first few weeks back here at The Love Local Jobs Foundation! We've been delighted to kick off several Dare to Dream programmes this month and bring together some fantastic schools and local businesses from across Sussex. We're excited to see these partnerships flourish over the coming weeks! As ever, we'd love to share some

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and network of supporters, November was a brilliant, busy month here at the Love Local Jobs Foundation, which saw us deliver 21 programme events and reach close to 3,000 students. We were delighted to launch a number of Dare to Dream partnerships with new supporting businesses, while November also saw one or two partnerships reach their conclusion for another year. There's an exciting two weeks in December to look forward to before

To our Love Local Jobs Foundation community and network of supporters, We're now two months into this academic year's Dare to Dream programme and what an amazing two months it's been! Six wonderful businesses were involved throughout October and with the help of their brilliant volunteer mentors, Jack and the team were able to deliver 'The Journey' and 'The Skills' events to over 2,000 Year 9 students. Here's a little snapshot of what's been happening across the Love Local Jo