The Inspire and Achieve Foundation support young people across the Nottinghamshire community through our holistic mentoring, employability courses and youth-led activities. Many of the young people IAF help lack confidence, grew up in care, have poor mental health, a criminal record, addictions, or are homeless. They simply don’t have the support in their life to help them overcome their issues. Others leave education with little or no qualifications and these life experiences often affect their ability to gain, and sustain employment, education and training opportunities. Our team have lived experience of the issues that our young people face meaning every young person who comes to us is met with authentic empathy and a genuine understanding of the complexity of the barriers at play. We also have a fantastic team of youth volunteers, many of whom have been supported through our programmes before who help out at our youth hubs and become ambassadors for the work we do.