Our impact
Generation is a charity committed to supporting people facing barriers to employment into life-changing, otherwise inaccessible, careers through a unique model of profession-specific bootcamp training with extensive wrap-around support.
Since launch in 2019 we’ve grown to become the UK’s leading charity delivering in this way – supporting more than 3,500 people. We’re part of a global Generation network that has supported over 100,000 people, delivering broad, deep and durable social impact.
How we work Our Methodology
Find and nurture
We find and nurture unemployed and underemployed people, who have been referred by one of our partners, met us at an event, or read about us online.
Select diverse groups
We then select diverse groups of learners who are motivated to seek life-changing work, yet facing barriers they are struggling to overcome.
Deliver
1-3 month, full-time, profession-specific, ‘bootcamps’ with experts teaching key skills, mindsets, behaviours and employability needed to thrive in entry-level roles.
Support
Learners with extensive wrap-around pastoral mentorship and employability coaching support across 1:1s and group sessions, during programmes and for six months after.
Matchmake
Learners to interviews with our employer partners who are looking to hire diverse talent for given Professions.
Track
Our activity and learners’ progress into roles and through time in their careers, to understand our impact and highlight where we can improve.
Data at the center.
With over 40 million data points and growing, we understand the full employment journey for graduates and can continually improve our approach.
Our Impact in Numbers
We define our impact as as advancing on three dimensions simultaneously
Breadth
learners in the UK since launching in 2019
Skills bootcamps delivered
Regions covered across the UK
Depth
of learners placed in jobs within six months of programme completion
per year average starting salary for our learners
job placements
Durability
more income over five years, per learner
alumni promoted in the past year
retention after one year for learners in roles
Who We Serve
Life-changing employment
We see a roughly 2x uplift for Generation learners in the chance of finding work within six months relative to our near misses sample – the sample we believe is most directly comparable, comprising those who applied to our bootcamps but didn’t end up on a course.
There’s a lesser, but still valid and clear, difference to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) sample, however this includes only people who have worked before (vs. approximately 10% of Generation learners who have never worked) and both these samples are counting a range of different job outcomes including low paid work.
Comparing to our near misses sample, Generation learners are:
MORE LIKELY to be working within their TARGET PROFESSION
MORE LIKELY to be working FULL-TIME
MORE LIKELY to RETAIN THEIR JOB after 1 year and be PROMOTED
“Data has driven our decision making, enabled continuous improvement, and provided insights and rigour on our social impact. Using counterfactual analysis our learners are twice as likely to find work than without our support. Moreover, the jobs we help them secure are their first step on lifechanging careers, offering a step-change in earnings immediately and thereafter, creating an ability to save, and establishing a foundation to thrive. That’s real socioeconomic mobility, enabled by skills bootcamps.”
On-the-job performance keeps employers coming back
View the results of our Alumni survey
Each year, we survey thousands of Generation learners across the world
2023 Alumni Survey Results