Join Student Governors from across the UK at the Festival of Student Governance!
This November Student Governors from around the country will be coming together to develop their skills and learn best practice at the Festival of Student Governance at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre!
Unloc Pauses All Facebook Advertising
Unloc has announced its support of the Stop Hate for Profit campaign and has therefore suspended all advertising on Facebook and Instagram. We are joining other businesses, NGOs and nonprofits in calling for Facebook to do more to stop hate speech on all its platforms, including Instagram. As it stands, Facebook cannot provide sufficient reassurance […]
Free Online Mental Health Course for Young People Launched
You may have seen that Unloc has successfully launched Unloc.online, a new interactive e-learning platform, providing a series of online short courses designed to encourage students aged 11-19 to explore entrepreneurship, employability, leadership and career pathways from the comfort of their own home.We are pleased to announce today the release of the first of a […]
Black Lives Matter
Over the past few months, the team at Unloc have welcomed the Black Lives Matter movement and how it is shining a light on injustice and inequality in the UK and around the world. As an organisation, we have started a process of discussion and reflection on how we can best add our weight to […]
Unloc and Verizon announce return of European Entrepreneurship competition
The Young Entrepreneurs Challenge offers 16-25 year old European entrepreneurs the chance to win a £10,000 prize to get their technology-led business concept off the ground Unloc has for a third year joined forces with Verizon to launch a competition for young entrepreneurs across Europe. The Young Entrepreneurs Challenge invites budding European entrepreneurs aged 16-25 […]
“Unloc’s support and attitude allowed me to no longer limit myself, aspire to succeed and strive to innovate.”
Last Friday we were thrilled to finally launch our first Changemaker Studio location in Camden, a project partnering Unloc with Westminster Kingsway College and Visionnaires. Isabela Dumitrascu, 17, a second year student at Westminster Kingsway College studying a Business Level 3 Extended Diploma, recently completed our Unloc Able and Talented programme, and was keen to […]
Unloc officially accredited as a Living Wage Employer
As the new year begins we couldn’t be more happy to share the news that Unloc is now officially accredited as a Living Wage Employer. Our Living Wage commitment means everyone working at Unloc receives a minimum hourly wage of £9.30 across the UK (or £10.75 in London). Both rates are significantly higher than the […]
“An apprenticeship really does combine the real experience of work with a learning course to best help you into a career.”
Its National Apprenticeship Week this week, a fantastic celebration of the value of apprenticeships and how they can be highly beneficial to young people starting their career journey. Here at Unloc one of our primary goals is to bring the best out in young people, and allow them to meet their full potential. One such […]
Southern Health NHS Roadshow Day
One of our proactive young people sharing why she’s at the Southern Health NHS Roadshow Day today at Portsmouth College! We’ve heard some inspiring stories and some wonderful ideas of how we can improve Mental Health and Wellbeing in our local areas! Thanks to The Portsmouth Academy for taking part!
Building a Network of Global Social Entrepreneurs
For the past 4 years Unloc has been working in partnership with Rwanda-based social enterprise Acts of Gratitude (AoG). AoG has a mission to train and support 100 new social entrepreneurs in Rwanda over the next 10 years. In 2019, the partnership received grant funding from the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust to help make AoG’s mission […]
