by Beth | Jan 24, 2024 | Big Ideas Blog, Blog, Youth Insights Blog
Today is the International Day of Education and the theme this year is “learning for lasting peace”. UNESCO explain their reasons for choosing this theme: “The world is seeing a surge of violent conflicts paralleled by an alarming rise of discrimination, racism,...
by Beth | Oct 18, 2023 | Big Ideas Blog, Blog, Youth Insights Blog
The Solutions for the Planet team have been lucky enough to visit a couple of our long-standing business partners recently with trips on-site to Tarmac’s Asphalt Plant and Northern Gas Networks’ Hydrogen Homes and Customer Energy Village. Both trips were...
by Beth | Sep 12, 2023 | Big Ideas Blog, Blog, Youth Insights Blog
September 2023 marks 10 years since the launch of Solutions for the Planet. We will be celebrating this wonderful achievement throughout the academic year. To kick things off, here is a reflection from our CEO, Jen Baughan… “For a decade now, Solutions for...
by Beth | Sep 5, 2023 | Big Ideas Blog, Blog, Youth Insights Blog
To celebrate Read a Book Day, we asked our team for their recommendations of books that have inspired them and this is the list they came up with. With a focus on sustainability and climate change, all these books educate and inform about the world we live in today,...
by Beth | Jul 17, 2023 | Blog, Youth Insights Blog
We are coming to the end of the summer term and that means that we are over halfway through our Young Innovators Council (YIC) 2023 sessions. Through the panel, we have already explored how to recruit amazing young talent into Northern Gas Networks and...
by Beth | May 25, 2023 | Blog, Youth Insights Blog
Yvana, who was born in Angola and grew up in Leeds, is another of our amazing young people who started on the Young Innovators Council (YIC) in 2021 and is now a member of Northern Gas Networks’ Customer Engagement Group (CEG). Aren’t we lucky to have their superb...