Inspiring Young People is an online hub for career inspiraiton, video job profiles and success stories aimed at young people around the world. We feature inspirational stories about successful young people doing amazing things and achieving the impossible.
At IYP we focus on encouraging others to do the same, providing them with advice and direction that will help them move forward and realise their ambitions.
As a young entrepreneur himself at 20, London based Naweed Shams decided to launch this website in 2009 as a platform for young people to get career inspiration via success stories, gain recognition & praise for their entrepreneurism and learn from eachother.
A year later IYP had gained notoriety and recognition in the world of youth media. He recruited once tearaway Jake Hanrahan, helping him realise his true potential as a writer.
The two combined their talents and got to work. The rest is history in the making.
Get in touch with Naweed – ns@inspiringyoungpeople.com
Marc and Naweed are very similar in the fact that they are both young London based entrepreneurs with a passion for helping young people. He works alongside Naweed developing both IYP’s business model and our exciting new services.
Marc first joined IYP as a writer and has steadily worked his way up the position of Managing Director; so you can safely say that he knows IYP inside out, so if you have any questions please feel free to drop him an email.
Get in touch with Marc – marc@inspiringyoungpeople.com
Fast forward three years and Naweed is joined by Ayath Ullah. Ayath is a true believer in youth empowerment & helping young people reach their full potential. A previous adviser to central Government.
Ayath was a pioneering member of a Panel, setup by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (now known as Department for Education) & sponsored by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS). It was a team of 18 people from all over the country who advised the government and other FE sector organisations on how to improve further education policy in England
As well as being the Business Development & Marketing Manager here at Inspiring Young People, he is a part-time web developer and currently involved in quite a few other startups/projects.
Get in touch with Ayath – ayath@inspiringyoungpeople.com
Excepshunal – Co-director
StuConnect – Events & Content Editor.
BeatScene FM – Business Relations Manager
PostDesk - Product Evangelist
From researching for global companies to giving speeches in parliament, “Mala Mawkin is an impressive young ambassador for science”. When she was 15 she was awarded a trip to NASA from using her love of science and media in the ‘Our Space’ competition. By the time she turned 17 AXA had invested £10,000 into her development in science through Ambition AXA Award Scheme.
Mala also spends her time with numerous charitable organisations raising awareness on committees, coordinating events and volunteering at local disabled schools, care homes and nurseries on a regular basis. Now studying for her a levels, she is a true believer in inspiring people to seize opportunities and strive to achieve their best.
Get in touch with Mala – mala@inspiringyoungpeople.com
Ravinder is a young budding entrepreneur from Birmingham currently studying at the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy.
He is also the founder of ‘Indian Snack Box’, which aims to bring authentic Indian snacks and sweets out to the public in convenient snack sized boxes.
Ravinder is passionate about being successful and, strongly believes in helping others on the journey to success.”
Get in touch with Ravinder- ravinder@inspiringyoungpeople.com
Sophie Howard is a current undergraduate student in her second year at the University of Surrey studying Sociology, Culture and Media.
Alongside her studies, she also writes and reads the news live on air for a local radio station as well as writing fortnightly news articles for a local newspaper demonstrating her interest in writing for different media outlets.
Sophie has also been involved in several work experience opportunities with Channel 4 and is keen to further her work experiences with different media companies.
She’s very ambitious and is working towards a career in media, and hoping to inspire others through working with Inspiring Young People.
Get in touch with Sophie – sophie@inspiringyoungpeople.com