Youth Insights Blog : Solutions for the Planet

Catching up with Imogen

Imogen joined our Young Innovators Council, in collaboration with Northern Gas Networks, back in 2021. Since then she has gone on to join NGN’s adult panel, pursue an engineering degree and is now poised to start her career in renewable energy!

The Gatsby Benchmarks’ 10th Birthday

The Gatsby Benchmarks are a framework for good careers guidance in schools and colleges, developed as part of a 2014 report by Sir John Holman for the Gatsby Foundation. These eight benchmarks are designed to help schools and colleges provide high-quality and...

A new government for change? A young person’s perspective

One of the brilliant members of Northern Gas Networks' Young Innovators Council 2024, Emilia, shares her thoughts on the recent change in government..."The result of the General Election with Labour taking control of our government will have an effect on everyone...

Jen’s Hope in Action: Nurturing kind, compassionate and responsible human beings.

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,...

S4TP go offsite on site

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 like getting...

Celebrating 10 years of S4TP!

Join us in celebrating 10 years of bringing young people and businesses together for the benefit of both and the planet!

S4TP Book Recommendations

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…

S4TP Youth Insights Summer Update

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...

Young Person Blog: Yvana

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...

Young Person Blog: Charlotte

Charlotte from South Shields joined as a founding member of the Young Innovators Council (YIC) in 2021, and was on the YIC for two years before successfully applying for a role on Northern Gas Networks’ Customer Engagement Group (CEG). Well done Charlotte!“I found out...

Young Person Blog: Imogen

Imogen from Durham joined as a founding member of the Young Innovators Council (YIC) in 2021, and was on it for just the one year because she started her degree at Durham University! Here she talks about what the YIC meant for her, and how she has since gone on to...

Young Person Blog: Dhanayus

Dhanayus took part in our S4TP Big Ideas Programme 2021 and made it to the National Finals! Here he talks about working with S4TP Youth Insights by joining Northern Gas Networks’ Young Innovators Council 2023.

S4TP runs first student conference for Mercia Learning Trust

Matt Ronayne reflects on running our first student conference for the Mercia Learning Trust.In February 2023, Mercia Learning Trust tasked Solutions for the Planet to run their first student conference alongside their annual Festival of Education. Our aim was to...

International Women’s Day: Women in STEM

In celebration of International Women’s Day 2023 and National Careers Week, we reached out to Nitya Singh, a panel member sitting on our Northern Gas Networks’ Young Innovators Council 2023, to ask why she thought it was important to encourage more girls to take an interest in STEM subjects.

Northern Gas Networks’ Young Innovators Council 2022 and beyond

It’s the start of the year and we’re excited to have just finished recruiting our 2023 Northern Gas Networks’ (NGN) Young Innovators Council (YIC). But before we look ahead to the future, we’re taking a look back at the success of the YIC in 2022…

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...

Kaitlin, YIC member: Why I joined the Young Innovators Council

Kaitlin is a founding member of Northern Gas Networks' Young Innovators Council, and is about to start her 3rd year of working with us! Hear from her directly about what inspired her to get involved with the council, what she hoped to learn and achieve, and why it's...

Our first year of S4TP Youth Insights

It was with trepidation and excitement that we began recruitment for our inaugural Youth Insights Panels this time last year. We know from our work with young people on our Big Ideas Programme that young people had the energy, imagination, and talent to have an...