Work With Us
If you want a business that young people want to be part of, give them a part to play
Young people can easily get the wrong idea about big organisations – and vice versa. We’re here to challenge stereotypes. If you want to show young people your business, then make them part of the show.
We’re rooted in diverse networks of young people you want to recruit. We place them at the heart of the production, putting them in front of the camera and behind it.
Our mentoring programme creates powerful human connections that stimulate learning on both sides.
Our videos are pure uncut positivity. They have heart and style and make you utterly relevant to your audience.
- We deliver collaborative projects that generate energy, ideas and creativity.
- We develop employee skills to coach and mentor young people.
- We support wellbeing, social impact and community connections.
We are driven by our purpose to deliver quality for our clients
Inspirational Project Based Work Experience
Helping Organisations Improve Diversity
Building a Community of Mentors
Research
We invite you to spend a couple of hours with the diverse group of young people. You get to ask the questions and we make a wox pop video as a living piece of audience research.
Production
We bring young people into your world and go behind the scenes yo get to the heart of what your organisation is like, honest, authentic and heart felt.
Distribution
We go social of the day of filming to maximize advocacy and reach. And once ready, we distribute the finished film via our school network and through social channels.
Reporting
We share the impact data with you plus and insight report authored by young people.
Inspirational project-based work experience
Our creative, collaborative projects deliver value for clients and high-quality work experience for teams of 16-18 year-olds. Our approach empowers young people by putting them in control.
We use a winning formula managed by our professional team to create journeys of exploration that explode preconceptions and capture small moments of revelation when two worlds meet.
Research and insight
We deliver high-quality research in partnership with global research firm IPSOS MORI – who coach our teams. Young people have a cultural understanding to connect to different audiences.
Video and media
Our young teams have amazing ideas to deliver impactful visual content for different audiences. We work with professional producers, videographers and editors to ensure professional quality that meets our client’s brief.
Youth voice
Our projects give young people a voice. Our teams are great at engaging their peers to capture and advocate young people’s views and perspectives. We help give future generations a say about developments that will affect them.
Our project process
- Step 1: Define the brief - what do you want to achieve?
- Step 2: Design a programme to deliver what you need.
A typical work experience project takes 5 days.
Day 1: Team explores the brief + brainstorms solutions
Day 2-4: Planning and execution day
Day 5: Presentation and feedback
- Step 3: Recruit and brief a team of young people aged 16-18 and professionals to coach them.
- Step 4: Deliver an energising and inspiring project + behind the scenes social media.
- Step 5: Internal and external communications and impact reporting.
Some of our work
Introducing the Youth-Led Empowerment Network
Using animation for the first time, We Rise Alumni: Skye, Sia and Regina share their YEN vision created for the LFA Reimagine competition.
How we made Engage The Future
Watch this great insight into how we deliver our projects, how much our Clients get involved and importantly – what they get out of the experience.
Engage the Future!
Young people write and create a short film explaining why it’s so important to them that developers and change makers in their community consult them to ensure the impact is positive.
Creative Bootcamp!
This is how we collaborated with the Fashion Minority Alliance to give 40 x 16-30 year olds career insight, inspiration and impact.
Will You Judge a Book by its Cover?
See what people think of a group of young people versus what they are actually like.
ITV Win competition advert written and made by young people
Write, produce, film and edit an advert for National TV in week with our work experience team in the driving seat!
The advertising industry need you!
See why it’s important that it has more diverse voices to make it authentic by watching this advert we created with top agency Le Burnett.
OUR FUTURE: A powerful filmed insight into how young people feel about their future
A small group of thoughtful and articulate young people from a local Youth Club discuss how power affects them.
Resonances of 1981: We Rise X 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance
Hear local young people’s views about the 1981 Brixton Uprisings and wider issues of Black British history, education and institutional racism.
Brockwell Hall: Letting the past influence the future
Young people created this film to represent the views and perspectives of young people on the redevelopment of Brockwell Hall.
Gen Z Takeover Video 1: Broadcast on Good Morning Britain
Andi Peters introduces the first video created, scripted and directed by our hugely talented young creative team.
Gen Z Takeover Video 2: Broadcast on Good Morning Britain
Andi Peters introduces the first video created, scripted and directed by our hugely talented young creative team.
Discovering Empowerment
Commissioned by ft’work (Footwork Architects Ltd) and presented at the 2020 London Festival of Architecture
Haringey Apprenticeship Recruitment Video
This film was commissioned by Haringey Council and created by a team of 16 and 17 year olds
Handyfix Advert (for Lambeth Age UK)
This compelling ad was created by young people working alongside marketing and advertising professionals and award-winning film-makers.
@bigupbrxton #WeAreBrixton
Belonging to us is… Being a member, a part of a community or a family. Most definitely your religion and also your culture.
@BigupBrxton Belonging is Brixton
What does belonging mean to you?
What comes to mind when you think of the word belonging?
Building a community of mentors to support young people
We train and support your team to coach and mentor ambitious young people from BME and low-income backgrounds.
You will contribute social value, gain personal reward and feel a sense of purpose.
You will develop valuable knowledge and skills from working with young people from diverse backgrounds.
Our quality training programme provides high Continuous Professional Development for anyone who coaches and develops people.
We can create a bespoke programme for your company so that your Mentors are all trained together.
Why mentor with We Rise?
We offer:
- Comprehensive 6hr mentor training course
- Resources + discussions to deepen knowledge of how to mentor effectively, regular group Q&A sessions, quick and easy access to 1:1 support
- Secure online mentoring platform to support communication and relationship building, whilst keeping all involved safe
- Access to networking and social events with other mentors within our We Rise learning community
What is the sign-up process?
To become a We Rise mentor takes a few easy steps
- Register and create a Mentor profile via the We Rise Mentornet website
- Complete your DBS check and have it verified by the We Rise mentoring team
- Complete safeguarding, e-safety and We Rise mentor training (6 hrs in total across 3 weeks)
- Get matched with a young person via the mentoring platform
- Start your mentoring journey!
Our approach to mentoring
3-month structured rolling programme of weekly meetings to ensure a clearly defined, focussed, effective, mentoring period.
We invest in comprehensive training and continuing development, enabling the greatest chance of success for all involved.
We recognise that the mentoring relationship enables both parties to learn, develop new skills + mindsets, evolve + grow.
We can help you reach and recruit diverse young talent.
Through our projects, our mentoring programme, and our connections with schools we can help you reach and engage diverse young talent. We design workshops, projects, and activities that bring new ideas, perspectives, and energy into your organisation.”