Our partners
We work with the political sphere to create opportunity through
Mentoring
Paid internships & work experience placements
Career & campaign advice
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- We are looking for meaningful long-term partnerships that make a tangible difference to the diversity of our profession and the political sphere.
- Our partners help us reach those communities whose voices are most marginalised and missing from political discourse.
- Your support enables us to campaign for political education for all.
GK Strategy is our founding corporate partner. We work with our partners to offer their employees meaningful volunteering opportunities and provide our Ambassadors with work experience and internship opportunities.
IHAV has delivered training to NCS's award-winning Futuremakers Programme, their Youth Voice Forum and their London Regional Grads. We've also run sessions as part of local NCS groups' summer programmes.
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A grant from the Josepth Rowntree Reform Trust's UK Democracy Fund enabled us to reach over 10,000 young people in the lead up to the 2021 local elections. They're also supporting our 2022 local elections project.
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During UK Parliament Week IHAV runs free events so that young people across the country have the chance to put their questions to MPs. We provide lesson packs in advance so students have an understanding of MPs roles.
WA Communications is sponsoring our 2021-22 mentoring scheme. Over 9 months we will support 15 young people from under-represented backgrounds to enter the public affairs and public policy profession.
The Post Code Lottery Trust's grant enabled us to host our first ever in-person meeting for your Youth Ambassadors. We used this to prepare our social actions for the year ahead and to meet with politicians from across the political spectrum.
The NHS Clinical Commissioners recruited their summer interns from IHAV's Youth Ambassadors and one of them is now a member of their team. We have also provided public policy training for their team.
The Aviva Community Fund enabled us to employ four of our Youth Ambassadors to put them in the driving seat of their capacity building efforts. They put in place the supporting structures to allow us to open up our programmes to hundreds of young people across the country.
2022 Training and Internship Scheme
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Our 2022 Training and Internship Scheme will support young people from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds into careers in the public affairs sector. In addition to funding from The Walcot Foundation, IHAV partnered with Hanbury Strategy, Weber Shandwick, UK Finance, Ellwood Atfield, IPSE and GK Strategy to deliver the scheme and offer 5 paid internships.
