Inspiring the future is a new, free volunteering service which helps people to volunteer in state schools and colleges to do short informal 'career insight' talks to help young people understand the world of work and about training routes, job and career options. The service has opened for registrations from employers and employees in all sectors and professions and hopes to receive registrations from members of the dental industry keen to promote dentistry to young people.

The service aims to help social mobility and get people from different backgrounds into the professions and says that it is a 'fantastic corporate social responsibility and self development opportunity'.

Employees (from CEOs to apprentices) visit a local school or college for half an hour simply to talk about the job they do and the route they took. No CRB check is needed as teachers will always be present. Individuals and organisations can register to take part for free via the Inspiring the future website: http://www.inspiringthefuture.org/

Inspiring the future is run by charity the Education and Employers Taskforce and the government, education and employer representative bodies such as the CBI, CIPD, FSB, IoD are supporting this initiative.

From 2012, Inspiring the future will also offer free volunteering opportunities from a wider menu of options such as mentoring and enterprise activity.