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Celebrating an Inspirational Educator: Natalie Stewart Receives EUK Education Teacher Award 2025
Great teachers don't just educate. They inspire confidence, nurture ambition, and help young people discover what they are capable of achieving. That's why we're delighted to celebrate Natalie Stewart of Hadley Learning Community, who has been awarded the Big Bang...
Solutions for the Planet Welcomes Two New Non-Executive Directors to Its Board
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Arpit Raghav and Kathryn Lennon-Johnson as Non-Executive Directors of Solutions for the Planet. These appointments mark an exciting step in our journey as we continue to grow our impact, bring young people and businesses...
Why we host the Big Ideas Programme National Final at the Houses of Parliament
Parliament is more than a historic building; it is the heart of British democracy and a place where ideas are debated, policies are shaped, and decisions are made that affect people's lives every day. We have hosted our Big Ideas Programme National Final at the...
The Big Ideas Competition 2026 National Final
The countdown is on! The Big Ideas Competition 2026 National Final is nearly here. Soon we’ll gather to celebrate the incredible achievements of the young people who have dedicated the last 10 months to developing their Big Ideas. Read on for everything you need to...
The E‑Waste Race: What Happens When We Act Together
At Solutions for the Planet, we’ve always believed that environmental challenges are best tackled together. Not as isolated lessons in a classroom, but as shared experiences that connect young people, families, schools and communities. That principle guides all our...
Power of Youth Day: Celebrating the Young Innovators Shaping Our Future and an Award That Recognises Their Impact
Every year, #iwill’s Power of Youth Day highlights the creativity, leadership and commitment young people bring to their communities and workplaces. At Solutions for the Planet, it’s a moment that feels especially close to home. When young people are trusted, listened...
Introducing S4TP’s Youth Impact Panel
At Solutions for the Planet, we’ve spent years helping organisations understand, engage with, and learn from young people through our Youth Insights Panels. These panels have shaped sustainability strategies, informed product development, strengthened ESG commitments,...
Listening First: How Our Values Took Shape
[Taken from Jen's Hope in Action LinkedIn Newsletter] This week, at Solutions for the Planet, we launched our refreshed organisational values. This isn’t a rebrand. It’s a reflection. A reflection of who we already are, what we’re learning, and who we’re becoming,...
Introducing Our New 10‑Year Strategy: Youth‑Powered Sustainability
At Solutions for the Planet, we’ve always believed that young people deserve more than a seat at the table, they deserve to help shape the future. Today, we’re excited to share our new 10‑Year Strategy (2026–2036), a long‑term commitment to making that belief a...
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...
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