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Big Ideas Competition 2023: Announcing our Regional Finalists!
We've had an even bigger Big Ideas Competition this year, with 604 students in 141 teams submitting Big Ideas from 26 schools across the country. A massive well done to everyone who sent us a submission! We're delighted to be able to announce the Big Ideas...
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Big Ideas Programme 2023 so far…(South England)
Big Ideas Programme Coordinator, Max Homan, reflects on his first year running the programme in South England...Many workplaces discuss tactics on how to keep their workforce motivated, but I’ve found since joining the Big Ideas Programme, we don’t need to have those...
Big Ideas Programme 2023 so far…(North England)
Big Ideas Programme Coordinator, Matt Ronayne, reflects on the 2023 programme in North England so far…Another wonderful Season of Big Ideas Days has come to an end. 15 schools in North England have participated in the centrepiece of our programme where whole year...
Aspiring and Hopeful: Big Ideas Programme Alumni Take Centre Stage
Sarah O’Conor, Big Ideas Programme Manager, tells the story of how BIP 2022 finalists ended up headlining at a national leadership conference…
S4TP & The UN Sustainable Development Goals: Our Progress & Promises
As a business, we are committed to aligning ourselves with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Read on to find out how we are aiming to achieve this.
Tis the season to be wasteful?
For many around the world ‘tis the season to be jolly’! It’s the time of year to wrap up warmer, wrap up gifts for loved ones, and wrap up a year of hard work with roast dinners, stuffing and mince pies. All in time for new year’s resolutions to become healthier, have...
Back to basics – Make Do and Mend
Youth Insights Manager, Claire, reflects on how we can be positive about sustainability and aware of the benefits of living a more frugal life.
The season of Big Ideas Days draws to a close..
Today the Solutions for the Planet team look back on a superb season of Big Ideas Days and forward to what we are confident will be a cracking Competition! "Wow. Just wow." Big Ideas Programme Manager Sarah reflects. "To think that this time two years ago...
Flying with the Phoenix
After an incredible almost two years working as part of Solutions for the Planet's core team, it's coming up to a month now since I finished in my role as S4TP Admin. The team gave me the most amazing send off – I was genuinely lost for words (a rarity, they would...
Bringing innovation and positive change
On Monday 8th November we welcomed Katie Salamon to the Solutions for the Planet team. Katie joins us as Big Ideas Programme Administrator, read more about her first month below. I was so excited to join Solutions for the Planet; my greatest career goal has been...
From Marking to Solutions
On Monday 11th October we welcomed Matt Ronayne to the Solutions for the Planet team, read more about his first two weeks below. What a whirlwind!! I started as a Big Ideas Programme Coordinator based in North England two weeks ago and the time has flown by. This is a...
The Big Ideas Competition National Final 2021!
What an event! The culmination of our first ever fully virtual Big Ideas Programme, the Big Ideas Competition 2021 National Final, took place on Wednesday 23rd June - and it was INCREDIBLE! 13 amazing teams of young people presented their Big Ideas and showed us all,...
Big Ideas Competition 2021 National Finalists!
We are pleased to announce the 13 National Finalists for the Solutions for the Planet Big Ideas Competition 2021. Between September 2020 and March 2021, in the midst of a global pandemic that made every week uncertain, more than 1800 young people across the UK...
Lessons learnt through Lockdown
As we gently ease out of lockdown, I'm looking forward to spending more time with friends and family, picking up some of my old hobbies, buying some new (or, in my case, charity shop) clothes, getting a haircut and lots more. Still, it's also crucial to cast our minds...
What mentoring young people has taught me…
Before coming to work for Solutions for the Planet I worked for one of our previous Business Partners and mentored on the Big Ideas Programme for four years. I found the mentoring experience unbelievably rewarding, personally, as a professional and as part of my...
The Virtual Big Ideas Competition National Final 2020!
What an event! In our new normal of virtual events, our National Final on Wednesday 18 November, has to stand out as of one of the best! We welcomed twelve amazing Big Ideas teams, parents, teachers, mentors, special guests, our exceptional judges,...
Big Ideas Days – Out of the Box!
How does an organisation that goes into schools to work with young people, teachers and mentors, continue in the face of a pandemic that requires us all to work from home, socially distance and exist in bubbles? By thinking "Out of the Box" of course – and...
2020 National Final Results!
How do we highlight the climate crisis during a global pandemic?
We might have expected that concern about the climate crisis would have gone down since the COVID-19 pandemic started – surely people have enough immediate concerns without worrying about the climate too? Yet this report, from the Climate Change and Social...
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