#iwill Week 2025: What Do You Stand For? – An Annual Celebration of Young People, Ambassadors, Changemakers, and Partners Leading Change Across the UK
#iwill Week 2025: What Do You Stand For? – An Annual Celebration of Young People, Ambassadors, Changemakers, and Partners Leading Change Across the UK
Genuine Futures CIC exists to break cycles of disadvantage by empowering justice-experienced, marginalised, and excluded young people through lived experience leadership, hands-on enterprise, mentoring, and community engagement.
Now more than ever it’s time to make a difference and to help and support stalled and disadvantaged communities. Help us build and positively impact the lives of the people who need it. Discover how you can work with us.
Our programmes are designed around what you or your community needs. While our focus is often working with young people, we have worked with people of all ages to help them get back on their feet, become work-ready and much more.
At Genuine Futures, we can talk about our programmes, our approach, and our commitment to young people — but nothing is more powerful than what the professionals supporting them say about the difference our work is making.
From Creative Drawings to Confidence: Jennifer’s Journey to the Makers Market At Genuine Futures CIC, we believe creativity can change lives and Jennifer’s story is proof. As a young artist on our Boss Your Future Bolton programme, she’s turned her love for creative drawings into confidence, purpose, and opportunity. When Jennifer first joined the programme, […]
When Alex joined the Boss Your Future Salford programme, he was at a crossroads. Disengaged from school and unsure about his next steps, the future felt uncertain. Like so many young people, Alex needed more than advice — he needed opportunity, encouragement, and a space to belong.
Imagine what you would do if you were not scared? If you had a life without those self-constructed walls around you? What if those grazes and bruises from life disappeared and you were free to step forward? How would it be if you put down those heavy suitcases of unhelpful stuff you are hanging onto?
Now more than ever it’s time to make a difference and to help and support stalled and disadvantaged youths find a purpose, live law-abiding, gainful and fulfilling lives, contribute positively to society, and thus be a positive influence on their family, friends and the community at large.
Now more than ever it’s time to make a difference and to help and support stalled and disadvantaged youths find a purpose, live law-abiding, gainful and fulfilling lives, contribute positively to society, and thus be a positive influence on their family, friends and the community at large.
