Jake Hayman founded Future First as a consequence of his own state school education. After graduation from University, he saw how many of his contemporaries were not progressing into the same jobs as he and his University peers were and set about addressing the social inequality through providing more effective careers advice.

Together with Future First's Managing Director, Jess Cordingly, the pair have set up Future First, a web-based alumni network for state schools, providing schools with a low-cost, high quality career service for both current students and recent school leavers. Using both online and off-line networking they aim to strengthen the careers advice networks around the real world communities surrounding each state school they work with.

Learning Launchpad have supported Jake and Jess to develop their strategy for how to manage growth and to use their web presence to have a strong social impact without draining their resources.

Jake and Jess have now formed a strategic partnership with the Sutton Trust and are planning to scale up Future First's operations in London, the Midlands and East Anglia over the next three years.

Website: www.futurefirst.org.uk