News & articles

• 26 April 2023

The forgotten generation: city v countryside divide revealed

Young people in rural and coastal areas are twice as likely to 
ditch their career dreams compared to city and suburban teens.

• 27 February 2023

Aldridge Junior Signature Art Prize: Winners announced

The Aldridge Junior Signature Art Prize is an annual art competition, created in partnership with DegreeArt.com, the original graduate art gallery, and Callsign, the Digital Trust pioneer, exclusively for students attending the Aldridge family of schools and colleges. It aims to inspire young people and give them the confidence and knowledge to raise their aspirations and explore how their talent could lead to a career in the arts or creative industries.  Last week, the winners of the 2022/23 competition were announced. 

• Discovering creative arts pathways 

• 3 February 2023

Aldridge Junior Signature Art Prize 2023 Finalists announced

The Aldridge Junior Signature Art Prize inspires, informs and develops confidence in young people, to raise their aspirations and explore how their talent could lead to a career in the arts or creative industries. The Junior Prize gives young artists, aged 14-18, the opportunity to enter a prestigious art competition, with the chance to have their artwork displayed at the Bankside Hotel – London’s ‘Art Hotel’ – on the renowned South Bank, a stone’s throw from the Tate Modern.

• Discovering creative arts pathways 

• 7 November 2022

Green Careers Week

As world leaders gather in Egypt to discuss how to tackle global climate change at COP27, the UK is using Green Careers Week 2022 (launched by National Careers Week) to shine a light on the climate jobs of the future. The Aldridge Foundation is also encouraging young people to consider how they can have their own impact on tackling one of the greatest challenges facing their generation.

• 10 October 2022

We’re not a mental health charity but ….

We’re not a mental health charity BUT we do believe that all young people deserve an equal chance in life, and that means helping them to develop the skills, mindset and resilience to overcome challenges and barriers they face throughout their life.

• 29 September 2022

Three young cricketers get their time to shine

Three graduates of the Aldridge Cricket Academy (ACA) programme at Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA) secure opportunities to take their cricket skills to the other side of the world.

• Developing skills through sport

• 22 September 2022

Sir Rod joins Aston University as visiting professor

Sir Rod Aldridge has been appointed as a visiting professor in the College of Business and Social Sciences at Aston University in recognition of his contribution to business, social change and public service.

• 26 August 2022

Bright Futures students explore the dramatic landscape of Snowdonia National Park

As part of our Bright Futures programme, young people facing various personal challenges from London and Lancashire came together for a three day outdoor activity residential to help develop key life skills and have time for valuable self-reflection. Surrounded by beautiful scenery – mountains, waterfalls, vast green valleys and tumbling rivers – we saw their confidence grow as they continued to build on the skills developed through their in-school coaching sessions.

• Building confidence through outdoor experiences and coaching

• 23 August 2022

Girls Community Cricket Programme inspires 1000’s to take up sport

It has been a momentous summer already for women’s sport. Football finally came home with the Lionesses beating the Germans at Wembley to claim the Women’s Euros last month, and women swept to gold in a host of events at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. With interest and participation in women’s sport reaching unprecedented levels, women and girls across the country are now looking to a new generation of sporting heroines. Sport has always been central to the Aldridge Foundation’s mission to equip young people with transferable skills and attributes that will help them throughout their life at school and continue benefitting them as they go on to further education and the world of work.

• Developing skills through sport

• 18 August 2022

Skills and mindset are as important as grades

Today is always a milestone day for young people as they collect their A-Level results. It marks the end of their school careers and the start of their future and life outside of the school gates.