Our Work

Badge Nation

Led by Real Ideas and Future Creators, Badge Nation is a powerful collective of employers, schools, colleges, training providers, and informal educators. We are committed to recognising what individuals learn, achieve, and accomplish outside of formal accredited learning.

Youth Cooperative Action – Be the Change

Are there social issues that you really care about? Is there something about where you live that you would love to change or do differently? If this is the case, then Youth Cooperative Action is for you!

Bridge

Real Ideas supports organisations all across the South West to deliver excellent cultural education for children and young people.

Cities of Learning

Cities of Learning is a new approach funded by RSA and City and Guilds. Cities of Learning is helping people and places tell the story of their learning.

Cornwall Youth Hub

Working in partnership with the Department of Work and Pensions in Cornwall we are operating Cornwall’s youth hub. We provide a programme to support young people to build skills and harness their passions.

Cultivator

Cultivator is a business development programme developed for Creative Businesses in Cornwall and the Isle of Scilly.

Empowering Places (Make Things Happen)

Make Things Happen is a Empowering Places programme, supported by Power to Change.

Enrich

They are our common heritage; our shared wealth and they belong to all of us that call Plymouth home. We have a dazzling range of woodlands, parks, squares and waterfronts covering some 1600 hectares – over one third of the city’s land area.

Game Changer

Are you: Aged 15 to 24? A Cornwall or Isles of Scilly resident? And unemployed or not in education? We provide support for young people looking for help with education, training or employment.

Generation E!

Generation E is made up of a group of 18-24 year olds.
Their aim? To create better opportunities for future generations of young people in Cornwall!

Green Minds

In Plymouth we are lucky to have access to plenty of green and blue natural spaces. The importance of these places to our wellbeing has become even more evident over the past few months, as has our role and responsibility in maintaining and enhancing for future generations.

G7 Fringe

Illuminate

Illuminate is a spectacular light-based festival based in Plymouth that connects all of the Mayflower 400 destinations across the UK and internationally.

iMayflower

iMayflower is helping Plymouth shout about its culture and creativity offer, develop a long term, sustainable legacy and provide skills and learning opportunities through events and community engagement. We are also supporting creative sector businesses to become more visible on an international stage.

Kickstart

The Kickstart scheme is the Government’s £2 billion scheme to support 16-24 year olds through providing hundreds of thousands of work placements for young people.

Kickstart Ready

Real Ideas are delivering 6-week intensive programmes on behalf of the DWP.

Rank Foundation

The Rank Foundation aims to improve the lives of people and their communities across the UK.

Start Something

Our Start Something programme helps brilliant new enterprises to thrive.

Start Something Immersive

FREE support for digital entrepreneurs!

From April and for the next year we are offering 10 FREE membership packages worth over £3,000 each to entrepreneurial people with ideas looking to start their creative career. 

The State of Us

The State of Us, based out of Plymouth (UK), draws inspiration from new municipalist movements across the world and asks how we can build more powerful communities and economic democracy.