Digital Youth Enterprise
Real People.Real Skills.Real Opportunities.
Young people on Genuine Futures' Finding My Future and Boss Your Future programmes develop digital skills, then practise them in supervised enterprise activity — including real work on this directory for real Bolton businesses.
Supplied programme imagery
See the directory being built
Approved images from the Genuine Futures workspace show the practical work behind the pathway — research, content, profiles and digital production.
Owner-supplied imagery, approved for public use. No generated substitute people.
Real workspace
Creating and checking business profiles in the Genuine Futures workspace.
Directory in action
Learning how categories, listings and local search come together.
Campaign artwork
Real skills. Real experience. Real opportunity.
The skills
What young people learn and practise
Every skill is taught first, then applied in supervised, safeguarded enterprise activity with consent and content approval at every step.
Online safety & professional digital identity
Local business research
Content writing & blogging
Photography & filmmaking
Editing & post-production
Social media content
Customer communication
Directory listing creation
The pathway
From first skills to real progression
Progression is individual — but the direction is always towards portfolios, work experience, mentoring, enterprise and potential employment.
Learn
Finding My Future & Boss Your Future programmes build core digital and employability skills.
Practise
Supervised enterprise activity on real briefs for real local businesses.
Portfolio
Every piece of approved work becomes evidence in a young person's portfolio.
Experience
Work experience, workplace tours and mentoring with local employers.
Progress
Into enterprise, further training and potential employment.
The Genuine Futures enterprise family
One organisation, real working enterprises
Genuine Futures CIC is the organisation behind the youth development pathway. Live Local. Trust Local. keeps its own independent identity within the family.
The organisation
Genuine Futures CIC
The community interest company behind the youth development pathway — programmes, mentoring and supervision.
Logo & links — awaiting supplied assets
Car washing & valeting
We Shine Any Car
Car washing and valeting enterprise where young people learn customer service and standards on real jobs.
Logo & links — awaiting supplied assets
Cleaning & environment
Clean Futures
Cleaning and environmental enterprise creating supervised, paid-style work experience.
Logo & links — awaiting supplied assets
Arts & merchandise
Urban Futures Collective
Youth-created arts, branded clothing and merchandise designed and produced by young people.
Logo & links — awaiting supplied assets
Your business could be part of their story.
List your business, commission a spotlight, or open a door — every action creates opportunity.