Latest News, Press Releases & F4S in the media.
F4S News
1 Mar 2021 - We're getting involved with National Careers Week 2021...are you?
This week is National Careers Week so from the 1st-6th March we are sharing ways you can take part.
11 Feb 2021 - Founders4Schools Partners with World is a Village
F4S partners with EdTech company, World is a Village, to connect pupils around the world.
28 Jan 2021 - Event Invitation: Join us - STEM Careers in the Spotlight on Monday 8th March
Join us in celebrating British Science Week & International Women's Day on the 8th March at our free virtual career inspiration webinar for educators and secondary students.
26 Jan 2021 - Help schools and colleges shape futures
Our partner, the Careers & Enterprise Company, is looking for volunteers
to work with a local school or college to create opportunities for young people.
25 Jan 2021 - Event Invitation: Apprenticeships in the Spotlight with London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham on Friday 12th February 2021
In partnership with Hammermsith and Fulham Council we are celebrating National Apprenticeship Week on 12th February- Join us at our free virtual career inspiration webinar, open to all educators and students across Hammersmith & Fulham.
20 Jan 2021 - Futures4Students Career Inspiration Webinars
Join F4S in celebrating key dates in the career education diary...
22 Jan 2021 - Event Invitation: Join us - Apprenticeships in the Spotlight on 9th Feb
Join us in celebrating National Apprenticeship Week on the 9th February at our free virtual career inspiration webinar.
18 Jan 2021 - New Year Message from our MD
Connecting educators and business volunteers to inspire students in times of the pandemic
15 Jan 2021 - We are looking for User Experience Testers - can you help?
We are looking for a small number of educators and business people who haven’t used our platform before who are willing to help out with some user experience testing.
7 Jan 2021 - Teacher’s Notes: Dates for your diary
Get the lowdown on key dates in the career education calendar.
17 Dec 2020 - 5 Simple Ways to Support F4S
As we are fast approaching Christmas, the season of goodwill and giving, we think this is the perfect time to explain the different ways you can support F4S.
9 Dec 2020 - Change, a permanent ally
Taking on the challenges of Covid-19 head-on by embracing digital in careers education with Mapper
1 Dec 2020 - ‘Futures4Students’ - securing the future for our young people
Founders4Schools launches a new fund to support young people on 'Giving Tuesday'
27 Nov 2020 - Welcome back to the F4S Blog!
Our new home for all our news, updates and events
Press Releases
1 Dec 2020:
FUTURES4STUDENTS - Founders4Schools launches appeal to secure the futures of the ‘Covid Generation’
29 Jun 2020:
Open for business: Google vows to help local British businesses put themselves on the map
10 Jun 2020:
DIGITAL BOOST - Founders4Schools and BCG Digital Ventures Launch UK-Based Digital Boost, A Free Volunteering ...
1 Jun 2020:
New and Improved support for teachers advising students on their careers
2 May 2019:
Work in Progress: Is work experience really fit for purpose?
8 Mar 2019:
Women-led businesses are driving force of the UK economy
5 Mar 2019:
Founders4Schools announces the appointment of Stewart Carruth as Chief Executive to drive the growth of ...
12 Feb 2019:
Skills 4.0 and Founders4Schools
17 Jan 2019:
Partnership Announcement between Founders4Schools and The Prince’s Trust Scotland
16 Nov 2018:
Founders4Schools supports the Power of Positive Role Models theme for International Men’s Day 2018
9 Oct 2018:
Founders4Schools appoints new Finance Director to leadership team
10 Oct 2018:
Founders4Schools awards ceremony celebrates champions of youth employability on Ada Lovelace day
12 Sep 2018:
Founders4Schools announces Trustee appointment: Jonathan Pearl
17 Apr 2018:
Pioneering “AI” Teacher’s Dashboard unlocks work experience opportunities for all UK students
12 Sep 2018:
Founders4Schools announces Trustee appointment: Peter Gotham
14 May 2015:
Founders4Schools teams up with the BBC to inspire a new techno savvy generation
4 Jul 2018:
The Careers & Enterprise Company and Founders4Schools join forces to simplify careers provision for schools
15 Jun 2018:
F4S says a resounding THANK YOU to Business Leaders who Make A Difference to their ...
6 Mar 2018:
Women-led businesses are 'driving force' of UK economy
17 Apr 2018:
Work Experience is easy as A B CV
16 Jan 2018:
OVER 8,000 BUSINESSES COMMIT TO TRANSFORM MILLIONS OF FUTURE CAREERS THROUGH WORK EXPERIENCE
7 Jun 2018:
CEC invests in local projects to help bring the world of work to life for ...
18 Apr 2017:
Founders4Schools goes live in Scotland
5 Mar 2017:
Women-led businesses are driving force of the UK economy
26 May 2017:
Barack Obama’s speech to Scottish students kicks off Founders4Schools’ drive for 1,000 business leader volunteers ...
25 Jan 2017:
Announcing the launch of Workfinder, the work experience app
17 Apr 2017:
Founders4Schools response to the Industrial Strategy
19 Dec 2016:
Founders4Schools meet the North East Local Enterprise Partnership
12 Sep 2018:
Founders4Schools announces Trustee appointment: Stephen Bolton
12 Sep 2018:
Founders4Schools announces Trustee appointment: Mary Curnock Cook
17 Apr 2018:
Schools in Manchester redefine the future of work experience
19 Dec 2016:
Founders4Schools meets the Scottish government
19 Dec 2016:
Founders4Schools meet Teesside University and local business leaders
14 Dec 2017:
Sixteen-year-old girl who inspired Workfinder app opens doors for thousands of young women in Birmingham
15 Dec 2016:
Founders4Schools launch Group Mentoring and Speed Mentoring
28 Nov 2017:
F4S Response to the Industrial Strategy White Paper
15 Jun 2016:
Workplace Visits: A backstage pass to the country’s leading businesses
29 Aug 2018:
Collaboration between educators and employers brings a wealth of opportunity for 6-to-18 year olds in ...
5 Oct 2016:
Now you can book 30 students for workplace visits
3 Oct 2016:
Barclays & Founders4Schools partner to build skills for young people
20 Nov 2017:
Sixteen-year-old girl who inspired Workfinder app opens doors for thousands of young women in Manchester
28 Sep 2016:
Business Weekly: Cambridge tops uk student-entrepreneur engagement
11 Apr 2016:
Boost for D2N2 area students’ employability and career prospects
22 Mar 2016:
Founders4Schools partners with the Careers and Enterprise company to help young people achieve their potential
14 Mar 2016:
FOUNDERS4SCHOOLS TOP FEMALE LEADERS OPEN LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
17 Apr 2018:
A lesson in leadership
7 Mar 2016:
Women-led businesses are 'driving force' of UK economy
1 Dec 2017:
Scotland’s Most Inspiring Business Person of the Year is Announced encouraging Entrepreneurs Across the Country ...
28 Nov 2017:
Sixteen-year-old girl who inspired Workfinder app opens doors for thousands of young women in Newcastle
21 Sep 2015:
Partnership with Young Enterprise
7 Dec 2015:
Founders4Schools signals next stage of growth with appointment of its first Chief Executive
16 Sep 2015:
We are delighted to be a key partner with the Careers & Enterprise Company
5 Jun 2015:
From the classroom to Silicon Valley
5 May 2015:
Local Business Heroes bring subjects to life for Students
20 Nov 2014:
Appathon results
21 Jan 2015:
Founders4Schools launches new product feature
F4S in the media
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www.breakingtravelnews.com
4 Feb 2021 -
World is a Village launches Founders4Schools partnership
Leading online resource for the travel industry announces the launch of our partnership with World is a Village to showcase language learning as an important skill for young people to invest in for their future career.
Maddyness
3 Feb 2021 -
Edtech startup World is a Village partners with charity to connect pupils around the world
Our partnership with World is a Village to highlight the importance of language learning as a key career skill is covered by a leading magazine for entrepreneurs and innovators.
Business Leader
30 Nov 2020 -
Digital Support Boost For Greater Manchester SMEs During Covid-19 Thanks To New Partnership
Small and medium-sized businesses across Greater Manchester are set to benefit from a vital free support programme to improve their digital presence thanks to a new collaboration between GC Business Growth Hub and Digital Boost.
FE news.co.uk
30 Jun 2020 -
Award-winning EdTech charity launches course to help teachers deliver careers education
Award-winning educational-tech charity @Founders4Schools and leading social learning platform @FutureLearn have joined forces...
SHS
6 Jun 2019 -
SHS partners with Founders4Schools
We are very pleased to announce our new partnership with Founders4Schools – an organisation which connects business leaders with local schools to increase social mobility.
Business Weekly
31 May 2019 -
Champagne at the double for Cambridge woman entrepreneurs
Cambridge duo Sherry Coutu and Poppy Gustafsson scooped major accolades in Veuve Clicquot’s Business Women Awards 2019 at a sparkling event in Kensington last night.
The Sunday Times
20 May 2019 -
SOCIAL PURPOSE: THE START-UPS WITH A HEART
Companies with a social conscience are on the rise, proving that profit and purpose can co-exist in the pursuit of success
Financial Times
16 May 2019 -
Women and maths — what’s not adding up?
On National Numeracy Day, the great school gender divide and how it multiplies in adult life
Nesta
10 Apr 2019 -
Workfinder by Founders4Schools
Founders4Schools’ Workfinder platform enables young people aged 16 to 24 to search and apply for work experience placements in growing businesses, helping to level the playing field for those who do not have parental connections.
100 Women in Finance
13 Mar 2019 -
100 Women in Finance Names Founders4Schools its 2019 UK Philanthropic Beneficiary, to encourage Maths4Girls
LONDON – 11 March 2019 – 100 Women in Finance (“100WF”), a global, practitioner-driven, non-profit organization that serves more than 15,000 professionals in the finance and alternative investment industries, today announces that it will support Founders4Schools’ ‘Maths4Girls’ program as the beneficiary of its 2019 UK philanthropic initiatives.
Telegraph
11 Mar 2019 -
Female-led businesses outside of London grew faster than those in the capital last year, new figures show
An analysis of companies run by women that turned over between £1m and £250m in 2017 details how businesses in the South West had a median growth of 26%, ahead of London-based enterprises which grew at 25%.
London Stock Exchange Group
11 Mar 2019 -
London Stock Exchange Group Celebrates International Women's Day
To celebrate International Women’s Day, Women’s Network Forum and Founders4Schools participated in London Stock Exchange’s Market Open ceremony today.
Forbes
8 Mar 2019 -
Female Role Models Exist. We Just Need To Look Around
One in eight women in the UK wants to start their own business, but when asked what is holding them back, many cite the lack of female role models as a key barrier.
Ayrshire Magazine
12 Mar 2018 -
Founders For Schools
A quiet revolution is happening in our schools today and sooner rather than later it won't be quite so quiet...
FE News
31 Jan 2018 -
The lack of work experience provision is a black mark on the UK’s education system
The power of work experience can’t be overstated. Young people need meaningful interactions with companies if they are to hit the ground running when they take their first steps into the working world. These placements can not only help students to develop workplace skills but also inspire them to find careers they’ll love.
FE News
10 Oct 2018 -
Founders4Schools awards ceremony celebrates champions of youth employability on Ada Lovelace day
Last night, Founders4Schools celebrated and awarded the role models in its community who are doing the most to connect students of all backgrounds to the vast opportunities within the world of work.
The Times
25 Jan 2018 -
Providing the digital skills that companies seek
Time and again we hear that today’s school-leavers are digital natives. Yet the widening skills gap in the UK workforce reveals that this does not necessarily translate into digital proficiency at work.
Digital Agenda
17 Jan 2018 -
Experience ‘will ready young for future jobs’
Technology will create more jobs than it reduces over our lifetimes – but to navigate the changes that lie ahead young people must gain experience with the businesses creating the tech jobs of the future, the co-founder of LinkedIn told business leaders in London this week. Julian Blake reports.
chronicle live
30 Nov 2017 -
New scholarship launched to help young women kick-start their careers
A new scholarship that uses a mobile app to help young women kick-start their careers has launched in Newcastle.
The Scotsman
14 Sep 2017 -
Double win for Stirling in Founders4Schools awards
Efforts to improve the job prospects of young people and encourage more children to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects have seen representatives of Stirling Council pick up two accolades.
Sky News
14 Nov 2017 -
Founders4Schools Chairman Sherry Coutu CBE Joins Sky News To Discuss The Talent Crisis
Founders4Schools Founder and Chairman Sherry Coutu CBE today discussed the growing skills crisis with Sky News presenters Sarah Jane Mee and Jonathan Samuels.
City AM
14 Nov 2017 -
The solution to the talent crisis rests with our own businesses
Talent is the number one issue keeping Britain’s scaleups and startups awake at night. Thousands of our fast-growth companies admit that they are being held back by the skills gap and this is presenting a real threat to our place on the world stage.
Management today
14 Nov 2017 -
How to solve a problem like work experience Read more at http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/solve-problem-work-experience/future-business/article/1450165#giDwrtGFE2ZPGqIz.99
Work experience is supposed to be a vital bridge between the worlds of education and employment, connecting businesses to talent and helping young people figure out what they want to do with their lives. In practice, it’s often little more than an extended lesson in tea-making, data entry and envelope stamping.
Read more at http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/solve-problem-work-experience/future-business/article/1450165#giDwrtGFE2ZPGqIz.99
Wired
30 Oct 2017 -
Sherry Coutu on how to succeed as a serial entrepreneur
She doesn't court the spotlight, but Sherry Coutu has quietly forged a reputation as one of the UK's leading performers in tech. The 53-year-old Canadian first made a splash with her financial-services platform Interactive Investor, which she founded in 1994 and sold in 2001.
business weekly
12 Oct 2017 -
Disley and Coutu scoop entrepreneur prize double
Cambridge scooped a unique one-two as Darrin Disley and Sherry Coutu were named by Barclays as the UK’s male and female Iconic Entrepreneurs of the Year at the bank’s Entrepreneur Awards last evening.
business weekly
12 Oct 2017 -
Disley and Coutu scoop entrepreneur prize double
Cambridge scooped a unique one-two as Darrin Disley and Sherry Coutu were named by Barclays as the UK’s male and female Iconic Entrepreneurs of the Year at the bank’s Entrepreneur Awards last evening.
business weekly
12 Oct 2017 -
Disley and Coutu scoop entrepreneur prize double
Cambridge scooped a unique one-two as Darrin Disley and Sherry Coutu were named by Barclays as the UK’s male and female Iconic Entrepreneurs of the Year at the bank’s Entrepreneur Awards last evening.
BQ live
4 Oct 2017 -
NORTH EAST DIGITAL PRINT GIANT WINS ESTEEMED FOUNDERS4SCHOOL AWARD
Digital print firm Printed.com has been awarded the 'Best Workplace Visit' award by Founders4School as a result of the company's dedication to inspiring positive career choices for students.
Computer Weekly
4 Oct 2017 -
Role models best way to increase diversity, says Most Influential Woman in UK IT 2017 Sherry Coutu
Its founder and executive chairman, Sherry Coutu – the 2017 winner of the Computer Weekly list of the Most Influential Women in UK IT – is a serial entrepreneur who believes in the power of using visible role models to encourage children into higher education and careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem).
bdaily
4 Oct 2017 -
North East Digital Print Giant Wins Esteemed Founders4School Award
The rapidly expanding digital print firm Printed.com has been awarded the ‘Best Workplace Visit’ award by Founders4School as a result of the company’s dedication to inspiring positive career choices for students.
audioboom.com
15 Oct 2017 -
LISTEN: Carina Lindars, the Leigh UTC
A teacher from #Kent is leading the way in making hundreds of students employable in #Dartford. Carina Lindars at the #LeighUTC has secured nearing 500 meetings for her students with employers in fields like #technology and #engineering, leading to work experience and apprenticeships. She's just been awarded for her work by the #charity #Founders4Schools.
Evening Standard
22 Sep 2017 -
Secrets of my success: LinkedIn's Josh Graff
What do you do?
I’m the country manager for LinkedIn UK and I also lead our advertising business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
audioboom.com
15 Sep 2017 -
LISTEN: Carina Lindars, the Leigh UTC
A teacher from #Kent is leading the way in making hundreds of students employable in #Dartford. Carina Lindars at the #LeighUTC has secured nearing 500 meetings for her students with employers in fields like #technology and #engineering, leading to work experience and apprenticeships. She's just been awarded for her work by the #charity #Founders4Schools.
CBI
31 Aug 2017 -
Spotlight on business-education interaction
Scottish pupils are leaving school without the skills required by employers. In a rapidly changing world the skills gap is widening and a lack of skills poses itself as the number one barrier to UK economic growth.
Midlands in business
18 Sep 2017 -
Founders4Schools celebrates connecting 80,000 young people to 30,000 business leaders at annual awards ceremony
On the 14th September 2017 at the incredible new Francis Crick Institute, Founders4Schools celebrated the educators and business leaders who have worked together to connect over 80,000 young people with its nationwide network of more than 30,000 business leaders.
Business matters
18 Sep 2017 -
Founders4Schools celebrates connecting 80,000 young people to 30,000 business leaders
The Founders4Schools Judges considered nominations drawn from thousands of educators, business leaders and local government partners who use F4S services to help young people understand the world of work they will enter after school.
Cambridge Network
15 Sep 2017 -
Founders4Schools celebrates connecting 80,000 young people to 30,000 business leaders
his week, at the incredible new Francis Crick Institute, Founders4Schools celebrated the educators and business leaders who have worked together to connect over 80,000 young people with its nationwide network of more than 30,000 business leaders.
tes
14 Sep 2017 -
‘If a company employs people, it should be working with schools’
This year, less than 1 per cent of students in the UK took an A level in computing and only 15 per cent studied a Stem (science, technology, engineering or maths) subject. Of the students studying IT, only 9.8 per cent were female.
Telegraph
22 Nov 2018 -
Work experience is broken and this is how we can fix it
We all remember our first work experience placement. But do we all remember our first work experience placement being meaningful? Did work experience give you genuine insight into what working in that organisation would actually be like? Did it enable you to make an impact on the business whilst you were there? Did it inspire you?
The telegraph
13 Sep 2017 -
Let’s give a new generation the work skills they need
The UK is facing a serious skills crisis. Hardly a week goes by without this gracing the headlines. Most recently we’ve seen low levels of skills outside of the capital blamed for the nosedive in productivity.
The Sunday Times
23 Jun 2013 -
Charity aims to bring entrepreneurial spirit to schools.
Teachers will be able to book local businessmen and women to visit their schools and spread the entrepreneurial spirit, through a new charity.
The programme, founded by Sherry Coutu, an high-profile investor in start-up companies, and launched at the Sunday Times, Festival of Education, will make it easier for schools to arrange for company founders to talk to classes of pupils about their experiences.
Forbes.com
29 Nov 2016 -
Is The Skills Gap Killing Your Scale-Up? Maybe You Should Go Back To School
Fast-growth businesses are vital to the success of the UK economy. While ambitious startups bootstrap their ideas to the market -with perhaps just a handful of employees on their books – and corporate businesses focus on finding efficiencies and cutting staff, it is the scale-ups who are recruiting and creating jobs.
The Sunday Times
30 Jan 2017 -
App is just the job
Technology investor Sherry Coutu is set to launch an app that links schoolchildren with local employers — in an effort to tackle a skills crisis that is holding growing companies back.
The Scottish Sun
24 May 2017 -
DINNER WITH OBAMA
Scots businessman Sir Tom Hunter is giving lucky pupils the chance to compete for a table at the event next month
Daily Record
24 Apr 2017 -
School kids could meet Barack Obama in Edinburgh
Scottish businessman Sir Tom Hunter is inviting a group of pupils along to Obama’s Hunter Foundation charity speech next month.
The Courier
19 Apr 2017 -
Inspirational Sherry to share scale up vision
A serial entrepreneur, investor and mentor, she currently chairs the Scale-Up Institute, Founders4Schools and the financial strategy group of the University of Cambridge.
Digital Agenda
29 Mar 2017 -
Coutu leads founder impact quest
This month, F4S won the employment & skills category at DigitalAgenda’s Impact Awards. In our latest video interview, founder Sherry Coutu CBE tells Shivvy Jervis about the impact F4S is making – and what worries keep her up at night.
CITY A.M.
21 Mar 2017 -
Untapped unicorns: It's time to close the scale-up investment gender gap
Women are increasingly getting to the top of careers in which they were until recently unrepresented. Yet there’s a substantial gap in funding for female founded businesses with ambitions to scale. Untapped Unicorns – a report from the Female Founders Forum released today – looks at what can be done to turn this around.
The Memo
7 Mar 2017 -
See Britain’s top female bosses, mapped
Inspiring women are bossing it at business across Britain. Find one near you.
Isle of Wight County Press
5 Jan 2017 -
Teachers Forge Links with Charities
TRAINEE teachers from Teach First have networked with charities and schools.
Held at Barclays Bank in Newport, the event featured a presentation of Founders4Schools, an organisation that links schools with businesses. Representatives from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Jamie´s Farm, and The Brilliant Club spoke about their work and explored links with education.
Helen O´Connor, south-east and south coast director for Teach First, said: "It was a very successful day and it enabled teachers to network with charities and discuss ways forward and bringing their work into more schools on the IW.
"Teach First exists to provide fair education opportunities for all young people."
We Are the City
6 Mar 2017 -
Female business leaders open London Stock Exchange
70 female business leaders are set to open the London Stock Exchange this morning in celebration of International Women’s Day, taking place this week.
Business Weekly
6 Mar 2017 -
Women-led businesses a driving force in UK economy
Cambridge entrepreneur Sherry Coutu today reveals groundbreaking figures underlining that women-led businesses are a major driving force in the UK economy with a huge payback in terms of jobs and revenue.
Business Weekly
26 Jan 2017 -
Initiative to boost job opportunities for UK students
Cambridge serial entrepreneur Sherry Coutu has launched a new app-based initiative to smash through social mobility barriers and open up job opportunities for thousands more UK students – including those from low income families or disadvantaged backgrounds.
BBC
24 Apr 2017 -
Pupils given chance to dine with Barack Obama
Entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter is giving Scottish school pupils the chance to compete for a table at a dinner attended by former US president Barack Obama in Edinburgh.
LSE Entrepreneurship blog
10 Feb 2015 -
The Impact of Scale-ups on the Graduate Job Market
In November 2014, LSE Entrepreneurship hosted the launch of Sherry Coutu’s Scale-Up Report, which made recommendations for how government can support rapidly growing companies. Ibrahim Maiga, LSE alumnus and Director of the Birkbeck Enterprise Hub, found out more about how scale-ups affect the graduate job market.
The Sunday Times
22 Jun 2014 -
Secret angel paves the way for our first trillion-dollar company
Sherry Coutu isn’t a fan of TV business shows, but the Canadian investor is vowing to help entrepreneurs in her adopted country win the tech revolution
Education Technology
16 Oct 2018 -
Youth employability celebrated at Founders4Schools awards
The annual awards welcomed a selection of inspirational women in STEAM to speak at the ceremony at The Francis Crick Institute in London
The Telegraph
8 Mar 2016 -
Mapped: the UK's mid-sized businesses run by women
British businesswomen are powering growth at hundreds of the country's medium-sized companies, new data analysis has claimed. There are 762 companies with female leadership that generate revenues of between £1m and £250m and are growing by at least 20pc a year, according to a study by education technology non-profit Founders4Schools, which connects classrooms with local business leaders.
National Centre for Universities & Business
8 Mar 2016 -
Women-led businesses are 'driving force' of UK economy
Sherry Coutu, Martha Lane Fox, Joanna Shields, Anya Hindmarch, Neelie Kroes and Reid Hoffman and are amongst the world-leading entrepreneurs and business leaders welcoming ground-breaking new service to celebrate International Women’s Day.
In a global first, new analysis - based on open-government and LinkedIn data-sets - reveals how companies led by women grow, perform and rank - identifying the fastest-growing and most dynamic women-led businesses across the UK.
WeAreTheCity
7 Mar 2016 -
Women-led companies driving force of UK economy, finds report celebrating International Women’s Day
Women-led businesses are leading the charge across the UK, new data has revealed to mark International Women’s Day.
The data revealed that the average business annual turnover is 11,284,634, however women-led average annual turnover stands at 11,719,080.
Shiny Shiny
7 Mar 2016 -
Companies led by women are most dynamic in UK says new report from Founders4Schools #PLEDGEFORPARITY
New analysis based on open-government and LinkedIn data-sets reveals how companies led by women grow, perform and rank – identifying the fastest-growing and most dynamic women-led businesses across the UK.
Scale-up group
18 Feb 2016 -
Education the Key to Creating the Business Leaders of Tomorrow
Sherry Coutu CBE was the guest speaker at the 91st Business luncheon organised by the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists at Apothecaries Hall in the City. She chose as her theme the importance and value to the UK economy of closing what Sherry has termed “the Scaleup Gap”. Sherry spoke about her charitable educational initiative Founders4schools, a free nationwide service that allows teachers access to business leaders who will visit classrooms, share their experiences and inspire the students to achieve success themselves. The initiative has three aims: Inspire the Students; Improve subject attainment levels; Increase STEM subject take up.
The Sunday Times
4 Oct 2015 -
Preparing the ground to grow UK start-ups
Our businesses are ready to scale up but the system is holding them back, says angel investor Sherry Coutu.
The Sunday Times
11 Apr 2015 -
The insider's guide to booming Britain
"A top investor has issued a wake-up call to politicians by mapping star firms in every MP's seat, writes Kiki Loizou". This is the opening to an article on the Sunday times that showcases our LEP and Constituencies tool as the way to bring closing the skills gap nearer the top of politician's agenda and promote this 4% of companies that create 100% of the net new jobs.
Cambridge News
8 Mar 2016 -
International Womens Day: Analysis shows power of women in business
Cambridge angel Sherry Coutu has joined world-leading entrepreneurs and business leaders such as Martha Lane Fox, Joanna Shields, Anya Hindmarch, Neelie Kroes and Reid Hoffman in welcoming a ground-breaking service to celebrate International Women's Day – which is today.
ICT for education
17 Jun 2016 -
Founders4Schools announces new partnership with BBC to support BBC micro:bit campaign
17th June 2016. Founders4Schools (F4S) is partnering with BBC Make it Digital to support the national BBC micro:bit initiative by launching a new nationwide service making it easy for teachers to get tech experts into their classroom to maximise the impact of the technology.
CBI
9 Nov 2017 -
Sir Tom Hunter calls for urgent upskilling of youth for fast-changing global economy
Sir Tom Hunter joined CBI Scotland Director Hugh Aitken and Founders4Schools CEO Sherry Coutu at an event looking at how business-education interactions could be improved to deliver better results for young people and employers.