Deliver measurable social value and change young people’s lives.
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Why partner with Startup Sherpas?
Helps you meet your CSR objectives, opening up opportunities to connect and support your community at both local and national level.
Boost your early talent pipeline. Target locally or nationally to drive awareness of your company, and spot early talent.
Generate fresh insights and ideas for your company challenge. Get young people working on a real problem you face, and get access to everything they create.
What we offer
For Companies
For Government
SuperSquad Sponsorship
100 young people working for 6 weeks on a real company challenge. The best bit, they get paid.
As a sponsor, you get to shape the question the SuperSquad will work on. You can make it all about a challenge you have within your company.
1000 ideas in the bank, 10 polished ideas, 1 event, unbelievable social value.
For Companies
For Government
CareerQuest Sponsorship
CareerQuests are short experiences of work that school students across the UK are taking part in.
Accessed through our RealWork platform, students are immersed in work experiences created by us, and also our company partners.
Target your company experiences directly to schools in your area, or go across the UK.
HOW IT WORKS FOR COMPANIES
Engage at both national and local level with your own sponsored programmes. Get students
1. Choose your sponsorship package
You can sponsor a SuperSquad (our 100-person paid programme), or shorter CareerQuests (self-serve experiences for young people in schools).
2. We work with you to create your experience
Students can take part in any of our 15 CareerQuests - short 3-5 hour experiences covering all key industries. In some regions of the UK they will also find 'local' CareerQuests from companies nearby.
3. See their progress
You have full access to each and every student to see how they are getting on. This includes their journal - the place where they upload their work. Keep an eye, they create amazing things!
Hear what our sherpees think!
CASE STUDIES
Discover the impact we are creating with our partners across industries.
Stephen Cowan
Leader of H&F Council
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Hammersmith and Fulham Council
SuperSquad is an imaginative and inspiring programme. I was so impressed to hear from our young people how it helped them grow the confidence and skills to be genuinely optimistic about their futures. Well done.
Zach Beckett
Social Value Knowledge and Partnerships Lead
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Accenture
Our Social Value partnership with Sherpas has been invaluable in the last year. Their energy, passion, and drive to do something so important makes collaborating with them a genuine joy. Their programmes have outstanding qualitative and quantitative impact for all stakeholders. They are real changemakers, and I cannot recommend them highly enough.
Michele Williams
Global Head of Risk Consulting
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Allianz Commercial
To collaborate and learn with teenagers; to get their ideas on what is important for them in the future from an insurance product – as well as a working environment – is a fantastic opportunity.
David Horne
Managing Director
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LNER
I am really proud of LNER’s collaboration with Startup Sherpas. It’s fantastic that we’ve been able to gather insight from young people, representing Generation Z and Generation Alpha, as they will be our future customers and employees.
Nicholas Lyons
The Lord Mayor
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City of London
Startup Sherpas is an exciting social enterprise. I welcome their latest initiative to gain the insights and ideas of young people for the industry and to connect young people to the opportunities offered by leading UK companies.
Paul Welsh
Head of Innovation
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Aviva
Startup Sherpas are on a really important and valuable mission… I know myself, when I was growing up, it was difficult to understand what work was really like and to get that work experience that inspires you. I’m really proud to be able to support Startup Sherpas.
FIND OUT HOW STARTUP SHERPAS CAN help you create impactful social value
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