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What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

children celebrating graduating from the raising aspiration programme

What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a lifelong question that’s always asked and there is always an answer. By using career exploration kids are being opened up to the world of work from as young as seven. Keep reading to find out how children use career exploration throughout their development. […]

We have moved into a new office

photo of Lesley Burrows cutting a ribbion for our new office grand opening

Well, they say change is as good as a rest and we haven’t had much rest over the past few weeks! It’s been hard work but we have now moved into our brand new office space at Burnley Wharf. We’ll miss our offices at UCLAN and the wonderful people we saw every day, but we […]

Celebrating success

Sovini Group CEO giving a speech at celebration award event

What a day we had today! Our brilliant Aspirations Partner, The Sovini Group, celebrated the huge success of their partnership with us, after they provided funding for 10 schools in Sefton and Liverpool to receive our Raising Aspirations programme. Because of their commitment to local communities, almost 400 children have raised their aspirations, developed their […]

Inspirational education programme takes home award

Photo taken by credit UKBE and Paul Greenwood Photography of Positive Footprints winning the Inspire award 2019

Positive Footprints has taken home the award for Most Inspiring Training Programme at the UK Inspire Awards 2019. The Burnley based personal development programme provider works with schools across the country to help raise the aspirations of young people. Positive Footprints was singled out by judges for its work with The Regenda Group to inspire […]

Helping to inspire a future photographer

photo of a children from the Raising Aspirations programme taking photos of the Career Carousel event

The Career Carousel is one part of the Raising Aspirations programme, it aims to get businesses and education together to inspire children and show what possible career paths they could take. This is one story from a Career Carousel, which demonstrates the importance of it. “I was commissioned by Positive Footprints to photograph the Careers […]

Come on Flakefleet Primary School

Photo of Flakefleet headteacher Mr D McPartlin

If you’re anything like us (and 8.3 million others in the UK), you’ll have tuned in to Britain’s Got Talent over the past few weeks. We were absolutely delighted to cheer on the kids from Flakefleet Primary School, and their brilliant headteacher, Dave McPartlin. We whooped when they sailed through to the quarter finals. We’re […]

Our new website!

We’ve grown so much since 2012 and we’re raising the aspirations of more children and young people than ever before, so it was time for a new website that reflected our ambitious plans for the future. It’s now far quicker and easier to get everything you need from us on your desktop or mobile. We’ve […]

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