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The King’s Trust: Gen(eration) AI Report

Stuart Mitchell

The King’s Trust has launched the findings of new research commissioned with Public First on the impact of AI on young people’s employment. The new economic modelling and large-scale polling has produced a detailed analysis of how AI is likely to affect young people’s place in the labour market.    The report’s economic modelling finds the impact that AI could have in making the roles young people hold more productive would be worth up to £16 billion to the UK economy. However, the roles held by young people that are at…

Creating a sustainable future for the National Trust update

Stuart Mitchell

In July they the National Trust announced the need to make savings due to sustained cost pressures that are affecting many charities, and to put us in the best position to deliver our new 10-year strategy. Following consultation and our voluntary redundancy scheme, we have been able to minimise the number of compulsory redundancies. As a result of cutting our pay reduction target by £2 million we have also been able to add some roles back into our proposed structure. Of the 6% reduction in headcount we were expecting to…

Join Europe’s leading impact event as ImpactFest returns next week!

Stuart Mitchell

One of the absolute highlights of last year was our trip to The Hague to visit ImpactFest and see the many iniatitives they were working on, and we are delighted to be returning this year. If you are around next week we can’t recommend it enough – come and say hello, if you can’t make it this year put it in your diary for next year.  This is one of the trips we did last year to The New Farm. This is the interview I did with Aldeman Robert Barker…

National Trust announces creative commission on second anniversary of Sycamore Gap tree felling

Stuart Mitchell

Two years on from the illegal felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, the National Trust is today announcing a major creative commission, inviting artists, organisations and creative agencies to breathe new life into the wood saved from the felled tree. One of Britain’s most loved and photographed trees, the sycamore was an emblem for the north-east of England and visited by people from around the world. Its unexpected felling on 28 September 2023 led to an outpouring of emotion across the UK and globally and sparked a widespread conversation about…

Entrepreneur Emma Grede becomes King’s Trust Ambassador

Stuart Mitchell

British businesswoman, serial entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Emma Grede, has announced that she is becoming a King’s Trust Ambassador. Emma, who was born in London but is now based in the USA, recently visited the charity whilst in the UK, meeting young female entrepreneurs who were supported by The King’s Trust to start up in business. Speaking on a video on her social media about the announcement, Emma says: Since I was a kid growing up in East London, I’ve seen firsthand the incredible impact The King’s Trust has had on…