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Career Mentoring in Action – creating lasting impact

How PKF Francis Clark partnered with Ablaze to create lasting impact. PKF Francis Clark partnered with a local school through Ablaze's Career Mentoring programme to give young people valuable insight into the workplace while helping them build confidence,...

Latest Bristol OneCity Plan published

Bristol OneCity have published the fifth iteration of the Bristol OneCity Plan, which outlines a vision for a fair, healthy, and sustainable city, with specific goals and collaborative efforts aimed at achieving this vision by 2050. We look at how Ablaze Corporate...

Ablaze publishes 2025 Impact Report

Announcing our 2025 Ablaze Impact Report -  celebrating our 20th anniversary 2025 was the year in which we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Ablaze and what a year it was! Our 2025 Impact Report reflects on our achievements over the past year.Click here to read our...

Engineering Confidence – Corey’s Story of Growth and Discovery

We talked to Corey from Abbeywood Community School about his experience on the Airbus Future Engineers Programme 2025. Corey is a year 9 student from Abbeywood Community School in Stoke Gifford. Since September last year, Corey has been taking part in the Airbus...

One Day, Big Impact: How Career Mentoring Opened New Doors for Izzy

We find out what Oasis Academy Brislington student Izzy had to say about taking part in a one-day Career Mentoring programme with volunteers from RPC. I've realised that nobody starts off knowing what they're meant to be doing, it's ok not to know and to learn along...

Our Big Give match funding campaign opens soon!

We are delighted to announce that our Raising Young People's Aspirations Big Give match funding campaign opens at midday on Tuesday 1 July! The link to donate will remain open until midday on 15 July. Thanks to our match funders, your donation will be doubled; so for...

Megan’s story – how businesses can create positive change

Unlock Meaningful Impact: Empower Your Employees and Strengthen Your Community Through VolunteeringIn today’s fast-paced world, volunteering offers a rare opportunity to slow down, connect with others, and make a lasting difference. Megan’s experience with our Reading...

Gilly and Priya talk to ITV about proposed cuts to benefits

After proposed cuts to benefits were announced in the Spring Statement, ITV News West Country spoke to Gilly from Ablaze and Priya, who took part in our Employment and Skills programme, about the impact this could have on young people in the West of England.On 26th...

Ablaze CEO Sally Melvin talks on ITV News West Country

As the government outlines radical changes to the benefits system, ITV News West Country asked Ablaze CEO Sally Melvin what impact this could have on young people in the West of EnglandOn 18th March 2025, the government outlined radical changes to the benefits system...

Priya’s Story – Employment and Skills Programme

Can the right opportunity transform a young person’s future? Absolutely! Find out how Priya overcame barriers to secure full-time employment after taking part in the Engaging Potential employment and skills programme.Priya, 19 from Kingswood, started on our Employment...

Tegan’s Story

Many people hesitate to sign up for volunteering opportunities because they’re unsure if they’ll be any good. The truth is, you don’t have to be perfect, just be willing to make a difference. Tegan’s volunteering experience highlights that the best thing you can do is...

Ablaze celebrates 20th anniversary

Ablaze Celebrates 20 Years of Empowering Young People in the West of England For 20 years Ablaze has supported a generation of young people from their early years to employment. Help us to support the next. Since 2005, Ablaze has been making a lasting impact on the...

From Classroom to Career: A Curriculum for Social Mobility 

A report by Jack Griffin on behalf of AblazeExecutive Summary Ablaze is a charity dedicated to increasing social mobility for young people through early education and intervention. We believe in the critical importance of integrating career-focused education into the...

Jane’s Story

Jane Charlton is a Senior Marketing Manager at the not-for-profit tech charity Jisc, who became one of a small group of volunteer mentors on our latest Employability and Skills Programme in May 2024. Jane was matched with a young person not in employment, education,...

Sanjida’s Story

National Careers Week  is 4 to 9 March 2024, and the theme for this year is 'Your Future' - a celebration of careers guidance and free resources in education across the UK. NatWest Group are one of the headline sponsors of National Careers Week and run the NatWest...

Ablaze Poetry Competition 2024

Ablaze Poetry Competition 2024

Ablaze is delighted to announce our seventh poetry competition. Ablaze is running another exciting poetry competition, giving Primary School pupils in the West of England the chance to write a poem about ‘Peace’. This year we are doing things a little bit differently...

Ablaze AGM 2023

Ablaze AGM 2023

Our Ablaze 2023 AGM was held on 15 May, thank you to all those who attended in person and online. As well as the official business of approving the annual accounts and welcoming our new Junior Board Members, Will and Heena, we reflected on the successes and challenges...

‘Resolutions with the bigger picture in mind’, January 2023

‘Resolutions with the bigger picture in mind’, January 2023

With the start of a new year comes a lot of talk about resolutions, whether it's something you silently commit to yourself, or something you share with others. Most resolutions consist of things we’d like to change, start doing or stop doing in the new year to come....

AGM April 2021

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Ablaze AGM 2021 Ablaze held our first AGM in April 2021. As well as presentations from our CEO and Finance Manager on the past 18 months of the charity, we were pleased to have presentations from a school and business partnership...