About | Fledglings
About Fledglings

The space
between school
and the real world.

We built the platform we wish had existed when we left school — real skills for money, work, confidence, and life online. Made by the generation it teaches.

🏆 Young Enterprise — National Winners 🏛️ Houses of Parliament 🌱 Founded at 18
01 Our Story
Watch · Our Story

Why it was built, who built it, and what it's trying to change.

From a school leaver's frustration to a national platform.

School didn't teach us what we actually needed. So we built it — co-created with the generation it's for.

  • 2023
    Young Enterprise — National Winners
    Monito wins nationally. The idea gets validated.
  • 2024
    Platform Built
    Four full curricula co-created with young people.
  • 2025
    Houses of Parliament
    Speaking on youth entrepreneurship and the life skills gap.
  • 2026
    Fledglings Launches
    Live across schools, colleges and training providers.
02 The Big Issue

The numbers that made us build this.

73%

of UK adults fall below the financial literacy benchmark — a skill school rarely teaches

1 in 3

children experience cyberbullying online, with most having no idea how to protect themselves

65%

of UK employers say young people arrive without the workplace soft skills they need

Watch the full picture

Watch · The Big Issue

The statistics behind our four curricula — in full.

03 The Next Generation

What they said the education system missed.

One question. Asked across the UK. Here's what they said — unfiltered.

"Nobody explained tax to me. My first payslip I genuinely thought they'd made a mistake."

University leaver, 21 · Financial Literacy

"I had thirty mock exams but I'd never done a mock interview. The first real one, I fell apart."

Apprentice, 19 · Employability Skills

"PSHE felt like a box-tick. Nothing about what to do when anxiety actually stops you functioning."

College student, 17 · Confidence & Resilience

"I clicked a phishing link at my first job. Nobody had ever explained what phishing was."

Junior marketer, 22 · Online Safety
Hear It · Next Generation

Young people on what the education system missed — in their own words.

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