Partner With Us

The Careers & Enterprise Company works with employers, funders, and representative organisations across different industries and sectors who want to engage with education, or are investing in the education system to help close skills and disadvantage gaps.

Where sectors are looking to increase their reach into education, we utilise our regional network of 44 Careers Hubs covering 96% of schools and colleges, in partnership with Mayoral Strategic and Local Authorities, to maximise effectiveness of engagement and target outreach.
Using our extensive, unique national data insights we support organisations to understand and connect with the parts of the education system that will have the biggest impact on connecting young people with opportunities and addressing priority skills gaps.

Employer Advisory Group

We work with leading employers, sector and representative bodies across England who convene to further inform our strategic offering and amplify our work through their networks.

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You can partner with us in two ways:

1. Fund a programme or strategic initiative

We partner with employers, foundations and other funders to design and deliver programmes that address shared priorities, from closing disadvantage gaps to tackling skills shortages and improving young people’s access to meaningful workplace experiences

2. Work with us on a tender or bid

We welcome conversations with organisations interested in working with us, to respond to relevant funding opportunities, bids and tenders. CEC has a track record of attracting external investment and we are always looking for new and innovative ways to improve the impact and effectiveness of the support we provide to young people and educational institutions.

By partnering with us we can provide strategic insight into the education system, partnerships with local Careers Hubs and schools and impactful ways to use national datasets. We would love to hear from you if you have a tender or grant opportunity you would like to discuss.

Examples of innovative partner programmes, designed to accelerate measurable impact for young people and employers:

JPMorgan Chase - Effective Transitions

With philanthropic support from JPMorganChase, we delivered a £2m grant programme called Effective Transitions.The programme delivered targeted support and built evidence on effective careers education for disadvantaged young people. JPMorgan Chase have committed an additional £2.5m to building on lessons learned from the pilot programme and scaling this to keep helping young people to achieve better post-16 destinations.

In June 2025, JPMorganChase announced a further £3.3 million investment, in parternship with the CEC, to expand high-quality work experience opportunities for socio-economically disadvantaged young people.

Sir Richard Harpin and Goldman Sachs Gives

We are partnering with Goldman Sachs Gives and entrepreneur Sir Richard Harpin to pilot a new approach to enterprise and entrepreneurship education in the North East from autumn 2026. Delivered through CEC’s Careers Hubs, the pilot will connect young people and schools with local entrepreneurs and businesses, build teachers’ confidence in enterprise education, and strengthen links between education and priority growth sectors. The pilot will test a scalable, place-based model, with learning and evaluation informing how enterprise education could be expanded nationally.

Generation Logistics Careers Beacon

Generation Logistics partnered with CEC to fund a Logistics Careers Beacon, with the aim to transform perceptions of the logistics sector and inspire the next generation of talent. Through a pioneering pilot in Leicester and Leicestershire, the partnership delivered over 500 workplace experiences and engaged 16 major employers, including ASDA, Maersk, DHL, and Wincanton.

The initiative dramatically increased awareness of logistics careers among young people, with 97% of students reporting they now understand the sector and 63% expressing interest in pursuing logistics roles. By connecting schools with industry, Generation Logistics is helping to build a diverse talent pipeline for one of the UK’s fastest-growing sectors.

Salesforce - Digital Futures Accelerator Fund

With support from Salesforce, The Digital Futures Accelerator (DFA) Fund seeks to promote the adoption of Apprenticeship and Technical Education (ATE) pathways leading to digital skills and employment opportunities.

Commencing in September 2024, the two-year, £1 million-backed programme will be managed through our network of Careers Hubs. The programme’s principal aim is to eliminate some of the barriers to young people's advancement, particularly those facing socioeconomic challenges.

This initiative also encourages the development of innovative, location-specific programmes informed by data from our ATE Framework.