City Volunteering

Experiential Learning and Employability Hub

To catalyse the number and types of quality, mutually beneficial experiential learning (learning by doing) engagements taking place in the UK annually.

ABOUT US:

Who We Are

The Experiential Learning and Employability Hub (ELE Hub) is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organisation driving experiential learning opportunities for lifelong learners across the United Kingdom through stakeholder connection and collaboration.

Our Definition of Experiential Learning

Learning by doing with a formal outcome or result that can improve employability, self-employability or promotion potential. Includes credit-bearing experiential learning such as apprenticeships, internships, skills bootcamps, traineeships, sandwich courses, co-ops and micro-credentials and non-credit bearing or other types of experiential learning such as problem-solving projects, innovation projects, entrepreneurship learning, global immersions, simulations, job shadowing, workplace-based learning and internally motivated projects.

WHY OUR WORK MATTERS:

Experiential learning can boost the employability potential at any stage of one's career (early, mid-life or later-life) regardless of any career shifts, career breaks or time spent in self-employment. The more people who have access to opportunities to learn and apply new skills in real world environments, the more people who can achieve their full potential at any stage of their life.

OUR VALUES:

We support individuals on their employability and self-employability journeys with a focus on experiential learning.

We build and share information on experiential learning.

We connect experiential learning stakeholders.

We collaborate and partner and we activate experiential learning collaborations and partnerships.

We enable innovation in experiential learning.

We foster diversity, equity and inclusion through experiential learning.

We operate for the benefit of all in the United Kingdom.

THINGS WE ARE PROUD OF:

We practice what we preach, which is why we support our volunteers to gain the valuable work experience they need through our own Volunteer Work Experience Programme.

Our experiential learning stakeholder network is growing rapidly, with an average of 200 registered attendees at our events.

We are researching both formal and informal experiential learning opportunities across the UK for everyone to access as needed.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN OUR PEOPLE:

Accuracy and attention to detail
Strong communication skills (written, verbal and visual)
Ability to quickly understand the needs of our organisation
Can ask key questions to enable us to clarify requirements
Understands the resource constraints of a small not-for-profit and is able to work with these
Open to feedback
Collaborative
Willing and able to work within virtual teams and contribute to team goals as required

HOW WE ARE DIFFERENT:

Our activities aim to support lifelong learners achieve their full potential across all stages of their career, we do not only focus on early careers and graduates.