It’s amazing what you can achieve with support.  Please volunteer to give up just one day of your time and share your skills with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people. You can make a real impact and support them to take positive steps towards a brighter future. We are looking for volunteers right now to join us for one day, to help young people prepare a CV and learn interview skills, or to support them in fining a work placement to [...]

Around 30,000 young people leave school each year with no qualifications. There are many reasons why a young person might underachieve in school: emotional and behavioural problems, an unstable family home, disengagement with academic learning, or simply falling in with “the wrong crowd”. Once labelled as a ‘failure’, it can be difficult for a young student to see how they can be anything else. This is why The Prince’s Trust tackles underachievement in schools through its network of xl clubs. [...]