Future Voices: Youth-Led Content.
Employer-Ready Skills.
A community-led programme where young adults create real content media, gain training and work experience, and connect with employers.
Talk to us about bringing Future Voices into your school, care service, or local authority programme.
About
Future Voices
Future Voices gives young people a platform to tell their stories, learn digital skills, and create content that makes an impact – while partners (schools, care services, local authorities, employers) gain a powerful, youth-led programme that changes lives.
Why this matters
Too many neurodivergent and disabled young people are shut out of work opportunities. We know that:
Only 30% of autistic adults are in any form of paid employment.
Traditional routes to skills and careers often don’t fit for neurodivergent young people.
We believe every young person deserves a chance to thrive – in education, in work, and in life.
What is Future Voices?
Future Voices is a collaborative programme that partners with schools, local authorities, care services, and employers.
Podcasting – planning, interviewing, recording, editing, publishing
Video & digital content – YouTube clips, graphics, social media
Employability skills – teamwork, problem solving, confidence, communication
Participants co-create real content, develop portfolios, and gain the confidence to take their next steps into education, training, or work.
Future Voices is more than a project, it’s a movement to change how young people access the world of work.
Who is future voices for?
Young People
Participants co-create real content, develop portfolios, and gain the confidence to take their next steps into education, training, or work.
Schools & Colleges
Deliver a ready-to-go, inclusive programme that supports curriculum goals, meets Gatsby Benchmarks, and develops employability skills
Local Authorities & Care Services
Engage care leavers and SEND learners with a structured, confidence-building work experience programme.
Employers & Sponsors
Back youth voice, diversity, and digital skills with branded outputs and measurable community impact.
Charities & Community Groups
Co-design projects that amplify local voices, upskill young adults in media and employability, and deliver tangible outputs for impact reporting and funding.
Future Voices
in action
Since 2021 we have been working with young people, developing and delivering work experience programmes that enable neurodivergent and disabled young people to thrive.
We have learnt a thing or two in that time and so have our participants and partners.
Our founder, Lucy Smith had been involved in community radio since 2010 and always knew how radio and podcasting can empower people to use their voice and change people's lives.
In 2024 Inclusive Change At Work set up a project to create content for podcasts that was co-created with neurodivergent young people. This is called Project Sandbox.
We have been creating content with partners ever since and working with young people to develop their confidence and skills.
Listen to Future Voices In Action
Jazz developed in confidence
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What did Tom expect?
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Nikki explains why she wanted to work with us
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Scam Me
Future Voices at Emersons Green
Lightyear Foundation
Listen to Episodes online
Scam Me
Everything Emersons
Squar3roots
Read Our Case Studies
From NEET to national recognition with Inclusive Change and Scam Me
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Award Nominated podcast Squar3Roots with Lightyear Foundation
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Everything Emersons - A community podcast engaging young people
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