Charity Next
Charity Next is a new initiative of The Prince’s Charities Foundation. It aims to take the brightest and most talented young people from the public and private sectors and give them the opportunity to contribute their skills and enthusiasm to key posts in the Third Sector, in order to build greater mutual understanding and lay strong foundations for closer working.
The first Charity Next cohort is being launched this Autumn and is formed from a candidate pool of members of the Civil Service’s Faststream graduate programme and Teach First Ambassadors. Successful Charity Next candidates will work for a charity for a year and benefit from support, a learning network of peers and the chance to be one of the first members of a growing community of young professionals committed to driving closer and more effective working between sectors.
Participants will gain an unparalleled insight into the pressures and opportunities that Third Sector organisations today face, as well as the opportunity to make an impact in an area outside of their previous professional experience.
The participating charities benefit by hosting a talented future senior leader, whose skills, experience and vantage point from beyond the Third Sector they would not otherwise be able to access. We expect Charity Next participants to make a significant contribution to achieving the host organisation’s objectives while they are working for them and – following their Charity Next experience – to move on in their careers as champions of effective cross-sector working.
