“Every time I cooked, I got this euphoric feeling.” Like so many young people, Oscar knew what he liked, but he couldn’t connect it to a career path or specific job. “I found that quite a crippling feeling.” Growing up in Cambridge, he “didn’t do badly at school”, but struggled with concentration and getting homework […]
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We met Yash at the Caffè Nero by Cambridge Central train station. “I was sat right there,” she says, pointing across the room. On the morning of her interview with PEM, this was where she came to prepare, flashcards in hand, nerves building ahead of one of the biggest moments in her career so far. But Yash’s
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“I was applying for entry-level science roles but wasn’t hearing back”. Tucked away on the ground floor of Cambridge Biomedical Campus is Stir café, just below the Histopathology lab where, only a few weeks earlier, Sam had completed a two-week work placement as part of our latest programme Activate Your Future: Health & Care edition. Over the quiet hum
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“We are supporting the future workforce we need.” Kate Greenwood, Work Opportunities Manager at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and ambassador for Form the Future has recently been involved in our latest programme Activate Your Future: Health & Care edition. Kate has been instrumental in helping to organise the two-week work placements offered to the participants, however
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“I know my younger self would have appreciated volunteers like the ones from Form the Future.” Amara McCalla, a Trainee Development Surveyor at Hill Group, sat down with us to discuss her experience volunteering with Form the Future. Returning to her former school, Amara saw firsthand how much has changed since her time in the classroom.
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Cambridge LaunchPad Committee Partners TTP hosted their first exciting Project Day of 2026 for students from Long Road Sixth Form, Comberton Village College and Hinchinbrooke School. The day began with a welcome talk from Saad Hussain, a Mechanical Engineering Consultant Intern, who introduced TTP, the work they do and the wide range of roles within
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