Meet some of the team who make it all happenYou won't find a nicer bunch

Beck came into the job having never seen an NCS programme in action. As a relatively young person, he instantly saw what he had missed out on! Beck is a musician at heart, and has helped FF to organise live music events and social activities. He specialises in data, organisation and design. Had an email or phone call about one of our keep warm events? That will be Beck…

NCS Future Foundations: www.futurefoundationsncs.co.uk

Michelle started her FF journey back in 2008 when she was at the University of Reading where she was leading the Enactus team. Working with FF on “Third Sector Edge”, Michelle mentored a team of sixth form students from Reading Girls School to successfully complete a project with social impact. In fact, one of those sixth formers is now a Coach on FF Programmes! Michelle has a great belief in education in its many forms, having been a teacher, a coach and a mentor. She was rather excited to join FF in 2016 and become part of our amazing programmes aiming to create the leaders of the future.

Michelle is a key member of the Global Social Leader Team, for more information www.globalsocialleaders.com

Alice joined the Future Foundations team following an eight year career in the gap year industry, organising, managing and promoting overseas volunteer and internship programmes for 18-24 year olds. Continually impressed by the breadth of skill, ambition and positive attitudes young people demonstrate when faced with complex challenges and the self-confidence that journey inspires, she holds a firm belief in the benefits of experiential learning! Having spent the best part of the last decade encouraging young people to travel and volunteer their time to social action projects in the developing world, Alice is now focused on the difference young people can make in their own lives and communities, ensuring every young person has the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Alice is a key member of the Global Social Leader Team, for more information www.globalsocialleaders.com

Amy has worked for NCS for a while now and worked with young people for several years! She love’s working on NCS because she gets to see how much young people can achieve when they work together in teams and create inspirational projects within the community. Her highlights of NCS range from seeing young people face their fears and challenge themselves in the adventure phase to watching young people speak in graduations alongside friends they wouldn’t have met if they hadn’t participated.

Pete joined Future Foundations in 2009 and oversees the systems, processes and finances of the organisation. In his role as Director, he supports the staff team with strategic, operational and financial management.

Pete is passionate about enabling people to be the best they can be and achieve their full potential. He has worked with young people through his life from his early teens as a volunteer at his local youth club, to being a long standing part of the Senior Management Team at King’s College London Students’ Union, through to his former role as Chief Operating Officer at Future Foundations.

Pete is now the Chief Executive Officer of our sister company, Future Solutions.

I started my journey with Future Foundations as a coach eight years ago. Using my performance background (I trained as an actor at Drama Centre London) I quickly realised that with the combination of this and FF’s brilliant programmes I could really contribute in helping young people to make real change in their lives.

Having thrown myself into the coaching role and gaining invaluable on programme experience I started to undertake the running of the programmes. National Citizen Service (NCS) for Berkshire was my first challenge, the success of which led to FF winning the chance to run NCS Leaders for the top 100 students in the country. My highlight was taking twenty students to 10 Downing Street to discuss youth provision in this country with the Prime Minister’s right hand men.

I then spent 2 years full time at FF headquarters in Clapham as a Senior Project Manager running all kinds of programmes from one day to residential, as well as being involved in marketing, website design and sales.

I am thrilled to be currently running the AWS Get IT programme in Partnership with Amazon Web Services, which is visionary year 8 programme to inspire young people, especially girls, to break down gender stereotypes and to get into IT.

Amy is a proactive person motivated by the desire to empower people to be able to develop the capacity and control over the direction of their lives. This lead to her studying for a Masters in Social Anthropology and the impact of different influences on how we construct meaning in our lives. Amy works to build the capacity of young people and communities here in the UK and overseas.

Amy is a key member of the Global Social Leader Team, for more information www.globalsocialleaders.com

Simon has a wealth of experience gained in the employment industry. He has won several awards for his work with the long term unemployed, and has a passion for improving the lives of others. His previous role as NCS Recruiter for Ingeus saw him generate record numbers on programme in the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire regions. Simon has project managed NCS since Autumn 2016 and since then has continuted to break records. He has doubled the number of NCS participants 2 years in a row!

NCS Future Foundations: www.futurefoundationsncs.co.uk