EY Foundation Work Experience Focus Group

Join EY Foundation’s Work Experience Focus Group for Local Businesses & Employers in the Bradford District

Interested in sharing your views on the benefits or barriers to offering work experience in your organisation, and hearing perspectives from other local businesses? Join the EY Foundation’s Work Experience Focus Group for Local Businesses & Employers on Friday 14 February, 10.00 – 11.30 (online).

The EY Foundation is an independent charity that brings young people and employers together to deliver high-quality employability skills training, paid work experience and mentoring, with the ambition to provide young people from low-income backgrounds with equitable opportunities to access employment. The Foundation are keen to work with local stakeholders across the Bradford district to co-design and develop a place-based work experience initiative in the 2025/26 academic year. This project aims to complement existing provision, and ensure all young people have access to high quality work experience at key points in their education.

In Autumn 2024, the EY Foundation drafted a ‘Theory of Change’ with local stakeholders, where the importance of hearing perspectives from a variety of businesses, from small and medium-sized enterprises to large organisations, was a key topic raised. For the next phase of their work, the Foundation are keen to speak to local businesses to hear different perspectives on engaging with work experience, with a particular focus on early careers education. If you are interested in contributing to this focus group, or finding out more, please get in touch with EY Foundation Bradford Programme Manager, Dulcie Hayden at Dulcie.Hayden@eyfoundation.ey.com