UK Urbanplan News

Inevitably, given the impact of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, we had to sadly postpone part of our March 2020 school tour. But the good news is that we were at least able to visit 10 of the planned 18 schools – and the feedback was fantastic! We delivered to 234 students, with 27 teachers and 34 volunteers participating AND 100% of them rated the workshop excellent or good! We can’t do much better than that! We have also had to make the difficult decision to extend the postponement to cover … Read More

ULI UK has just finished another successful UrbanPlan tour and during its 5th anniversary! The programme is going from strength-to-strength and all the enhancements that have been made to the workshop scenario this year have been very positively received. The November tour visited 20 schools, reaching just under 800 students and working with 77 industry volunteers. The tour started in Scotland before heading down south via Chester, Liverpool, Blackpool, Leeds and Birmingham – finishing up in London at the end of the month. The programme wouldn’t be possible without the … Read More

After a successful pilot earlier in 2019, ULI UK is excited to announce it is launching a mentoring programme for UrbanPlan pupils. In partnership with Brightside the aim is to match enthusiastic pupils from the schools we have visited with UrbanPlan volunteers – all via an online platform. We want to help the 30% of young people interested in a career in the sector to work out what route is right for them. For more information and to sign up as a mentor visit our mentoring page

The ULI UK team will be back in schools delivering UrbanPlan in November 2019. There will be a number of opportunities to volunteer in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham and London. Take at look at our volunteering page for more information. https://urbanplanuk.uli.org/volunteer/ You will need to be trained if you are a new volunteer and the next volunteer training session is in London on October 29th 2019 9am-1.30pm. For those of you who cannot make it to London we will also arrange a series of webinars. To register your interest email UrbanPlan@edcoms.co.uk by … Read More

Students from 20 schools across the UK participated in a celebration event of the 2018–19 ULI UK UrbanPlan programme, which took place on Monday 15 July at City Hall, London. Read More

UrbanPlan UK has had another successful year! We have visited 42 schools since September 2019 from Glasgow to Brighton and worked with 100 new volunteers reaching 1200 young people! We also ran a very successful mentoring pilot with partners Brightside and are hoping to raise the funds to roll that out next academic year. We also weclomed some new funding partners – thanks to UCEM , PATRIZIA , Principal  along with the Siskind Family Trust and Van J Stults for supporting this wonderful initiative this year – as well as all our existing … Read More

As the end of the academic year fast approaches, the UrbanPlan UK team is heading on its Summer Tour of schools across the country to engage young people about the real estate industry. Read More

We were delighted to be joined by a group of fantastic students at our ULI Europe conference in February 2019. Watch their brilliant performance here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlndjnfHH_s    

The UrbanPlan UK team will be hitting the road again in March visiting schools across the country. If you would like to volunteer then visit https://urbanplanuk.uli.org/volunteer/ for more information and email urbanplan@edcoms.co.uk to register your interest.  The next volunteer training is scheduled to take place on Thursday 28th February 2019 in London (with a webinar for those who are unable to get to London).