Work experience shouldn't depend
on who you know
Work experience changes outcomes. But most young people can't get it — and most employers can't offer it. That is the problem we are trying to solve.
What we believe in
Only a third of young people get work experience. Most schools ask families to arrange it — which works if you've got connections. If you don't, you're stuck.
We think where you end up shouldn't depend on who your parents know.
We think employers want to help — most just can't justify the time.
And we think one honest conversation with someone doing the job is often all it takes to spark an interest.
So we match young people to professionals who share their interests. One hour. One-to-one. Structured so it's easy to say yes and both sides enjoy and benefit from the experience.
Our Story
Established by Emma and Luke after leadership roles at Pukka Herbs. They repeatedly experienced how painful the current work experience model is for host organisations, which massively limits the opportunities available to young people without family connections.
“The current system assumes we will magically guess what to do after school. Most don’t, so we fall into careers shaped by our friend and family connections.
Work experience should be a way to test our ideas and begin to map out our plans. All the research shows it opens doors to new worlds, but too few young people get this chance as it’s difficult and time-consuming to host. Our mission is to fix this and make it easy for all employers to influence the lives of their local young people.”
Co-founder
“We all have passions and potential, but it takes experience and time to find what really matters to you. It’s so important to have opportunities available to explore that. With only 1 in 3 young people doing any kind of work experience, we founded Not Impossible to address this.
We want to enable less advantaged young people to build skills, capabilities and a network, in turn helping to improve social mobility and create a thriving, equitable future.”
Co-founder