24/04/2026
🎉 Year 5 of The AMANI Project is officially open for applications!
We’re proud to share that the coaching and employability programme is back for its fifth year. This programme is designed for young Londoners aged 16-19 who are seeking a second chance and a clearer path forward 🙏
Over the last four years, participants have been guided through inspiring skills sessions and industry insight days, with dedicated coaches from founding partners, Goldman Sachs and Hogan Lovells 💼✨
Do you know a young person who could do with a confidence boost or some clarity about who they could become? If so, please share this with them so they can apply before the deadline.
Apply here: or at
https://www.aviard.co.uk/TAP26applications
ℹ️ More details: https://www.aviard.co.uk/TheAMANIProject
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23/04/2026
Aviation is one of the most technically demanding and historically exclusive fields in professional life. The path to becoming a licensed commercial pilot requires hundreds of hours of flight time, rigorous written and practical examinations, medical certification, and sustained financial and personal investment across years of training. The barriers to entry are real, and the demographics of the profession have historically reflected who had access to those resources.These four young men are on that path — taking the steps, accumulating the hours, building the skills, and working toward credentials that will allow them to fly professionally.There is something specific worth acknowledging in the celebration of people entering aviation who come from communities historically underrepresented in it. The pipeline of professional pilots is shaped not just by who can physically perform the job — many people can — but by who believes from an early age that the profession is available to them, who receives encouragement to pursue it, and who encounters people who look like them already doing it.Representation in aviation at the professional level creates the conditions for broader representation in the pipeline. Pilots who are visible in their communities, who speak to students, who appear in photographs being celebrated on their journey — they shift what young people imagine as possible for themselves.Four young men choosing aviation. Taking the steps. Moving toward something difficult and worthwhile.Aviation needs more of them. They're doing the work. That deserves acknowledgment.
08/04/2026
happening every Saturday in September 2026. The annual events happen for the children by our children.
Celebrating 20+ years of “supporting families, children and community”
• Pan London
• Youth & family focused
• Collaborations
Registration to be released soon. Follow socials on Smart Kid
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