Welcome to The Brightside Trust

The Brightside Trust is a charity committed to creating educational opportunities. Our projects are designed to provide individuals with the confidence and skills they need to overcome social disadvantage.

PROJECTS

Live Journals

Live Journals - for the future of engineers in Britain

MedEx - Medical Taster

A medical work experience programme for young people applying to be the first doctors in their family.

Confident futures

E-mentoring for Children in Care

Big Bang Blogs

Big Bang Blogs (www.bigbangblogs.org), which launched in January 2007, aims to encourage young people to aspire to a career in...

NEWS

Vacancy: Project Coordinator

4th April 2008

We are looking for a self-motivated individual who brings a dynamic approach to the not-for-profit sector. If you have what it takes to help us build on our current expertise then we would like to hear from you. As project coordinator you will work within the project delivery team to support...

End child poverty by 2020?

4th March 2008

Check out this week's Brightside Blog, from The Brightside Trust's research and policy officer, John Twineham. In this edition, John looks at the latest report on Sure Start and discusses whether the government's aim to end child poverty by 2020 really is a credible project. Visit www.brightsidetrust.blogspot.com to get John's take on...