How to support us

If you believe it is essential young people understand more about the built environment, then you are supporters of what we do.

 And maybe you also need to demonstrate to stakeholders, investors, customers, how you generate lasting social value, economic and environmental benefits.

 We use our knowledge of the best projects out there together with our own experience of working with schools and young people, to help you ensure your initiatives are designed and delivered to produce the best results.

Here’s how you can help us to help you:

Partner

If you think education is the most powerful and logical route to creating better citizens who understand and can influence the built environment, and you need to demonstrate this to all your stakeholders. This is the package for you - £5,000 pa.

·      Present your company’s ‘social value journey’ at an exclusive TET Dialogues live event/online webinar

·      Pen your thought-leadership article in TET’s E-newsletter

·      Client/board dining/event opportunities with TET founder attending

·      Host a dinner and invite guests from TET’s networks

·      Be a member of TET soundings board for future activities, event and help guide TET’s ‘road map’

·      Your name on press releases, website, newsletters, articles on your work where relevant to articles produced by TET

·      Be associated with a new charity that is amplifying and enabling innovation in engaging young people of all ages

Sponsor

For organisations who in addition to supporting TET’s work wish to demonstrate commitment to a new charity helping drive innovations in engaging young people - £2,500 pa

Benefits:

·      Association with a new charity that is helping empower young people in the built environment, providing them with knowledge they can carry into adult citizenship

·      Opportunity to present the aims and work of your organisation at one of our Dialogue or other events

·      You can invite our TET (and Open City) founder Victoria Thornton to speak at one your organisation’s internal events

·      Invitations to all online and live TET events, including annual awards receptions, and online TET dialogues

·      Your logo and web link on our website, newsletters and event collateral

TET Friend

For individuals and SMEs interested in helping young people get to grips with the built environment. A £500 annual donation from organisations with more than 20 employees, or £200 for those with fewer.

Benefits:

·      Advance registration for our TET dialogue panel discussions – hear good ideas first!

·      Acknowledgement online and publicity in our social media

·      Early bird opportunities to sponsor our award categories

·      Invitations to awards ceremonies and other events

·      20% discount on Inspiring Future Generation Awards submission fee

Support our Awards 

Inspire Future Generation Awards

Open to built environment professionals and organisations – this competition rewards initiatives from the UK and around the world that have taken place in the last three years. Read more about the Awards and the winners’, sponsors and projects from the previous three years, here.

Entries should demonstrate how built environment professionals support children and young people to acquire the skills and experience, involving research or activities that give them a voice in the built environment, greater agency, have the potential to lead to policy change.

There are opportunities to become a sponsor and support these awards and help transform young people’s voice in the built environment. Two packages are available: 


Headline Sponsor for the Awards: £10,000

Benefits

  • Your brand on each piece of pre-event marketing for the programme, and your full presence at the ceremony

  • You will be a judge for one or more award categories

  • You will present Outstanding Individual of the Year Award 

  • All the photography you can use in your comms and marketing material

  • You can invite 10 people to the awards ceremony

  • The opportunity to host a dinner exclusively for yourself and our joint networks

  • Article in TET’s E-newsletter

  • £500 prize included to be presented to winner for one of the Categories.

Single Award Sponsor: £3,000

Benefits

It’s an exciting new awards programmes attracting excellent schemes that work for young people, and for sponsors

  • You benefit from pre-publicity and branding at the Awards Ceremony

  • You get to present the category award you’ve sponsored and receive photography for you can use in your communications

  • You can invite five people to the awards ceremony

  • Individual of the Year Category. In addition prize of £250 presented to Emerging and Established Winners. [don’t understand this….]

Creative Thinking Awards

The Creative Thinking Awards is being formally launched in 2025 to celebrate teachers and built environment professionals who have been using the theme of architecture and the built environment education within classroom teaching or collaboration. The awards aim to recognise, promote, and encourage school-led learning programmes exploring architecture and the built environment.

The award celebrates architecture learning across categories including themes of wellbeing, community and sustainability, subject areas and key stages. Successful initiatives will demonstrate pupil engagement, best practice, impact and creativity. 


Headline Sponsor for the Awards: £10,000

Benefits

  • Your brand on each piece of pre-event marketing for the programme, and your full presence at the ceremony

  • You will be a judge for one or more award categories

  • You will present Outstanding Individual of the Year Award 

  • All the photography you can use in your comms and marketing material

  • You can invite 10 people to the awards ceremony

  • The opportunity to host a dinner exclusively for yourself and our joint networks

  • Article in TET’s E-newsletter

  • £500 prize included to be presented to winner for one of the Categories.

    Single Award Sponsor £3,000

    Benefits

    It’s an exciting new awards programmes attracting excellent schemes

    • You benefit from pre-publicity and branding at the Awards Ceremony

    • You get to present the category award you’ve sponsored and receive photography for you can use in your communications

    • You can invite five people to the awards ceremony

    • Individual of the Year Category. In addition prize of £250 presented to Emerging and Established Winners. [don’t understand this….]

Volunteer

Become a volunteer - virtual or in-person or wish to help via giving some pro-bono time? Please contact Christina at info@thorntoneducationtrust.org

Donate

If you’d like to make a one-off, or regular donation, to TET directly, or you wish to make a donation towards a particular element of either our Awards or our Programme, please visit our CharitiesAidFoundation page where you’ll find all these options to DONATE