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Building Futures Network

Train young people. Build communities. Create lasting impact.

Join us in a powerful and practical way to help build a better future.
One young person, one project, one community at a time.

As a member of the Building Futures Network, your business could help fund the training, mentorship, and job support of hundreds of young people in Zambia. These young builders gain recognised construction skills – and go on to help deliver vital infrastructure like schools, health clinics, housing and toilets in communities that need them most.

It’s tangible. It’s lasting. It’s the kind of impact your business can be proud of.

What your membership helps make possible

  • Training for young people to enter the workforce with real, practical construction skills
  • Construction of new schools and toilets so more children can learn, and more girls can stay in education as they grow up
  • Supporting more women to work and thrive across the construction sector
  • Scalable models that can support youth development in Zambia, and beyond
Trainees learning at the Centre for Excellence

Who is this for?

The Building Futures Network is open to:

  • Purpose-led built environment companies: architecture, engineering, construction, planning, design
  • Small, medium or growing businesses looking for a simple, affordable way to have a demonstrable impact

 

Whether you’re a consultancy in London, an architect in Chicago contractor in Lusaka, or a studio in Copenhagen, this is your chance to build more than profit.

Why businesses join the Network

Businesses join the Building Futures Network because they want to give back in a way that’s real and measurable.

It’s not about vague promises or ticking boxes. It’s about aligning your company’s value and goals with meaningful, visible impact.

Membership helps bring your organisation’s values to life. It inspires pride among employees, and connects your company to a story that matters.

For many, it’s also about differentiation – standing out as a business that builds more than profit, and showing clients, partners and employees that you’re committed to creating a better future.

Pupils at Mwachisompola Primary School

What your business gains as a member:

  • Highlight your company’s social purpose:
     We’ll proudly feature your support across our platforms and you’ll receive a ‘Building Futures Network’ digital badge to display on your website and link to the impact you’re helping create.
  • Confidently share you company’s impact story:
     Your support translates into real results: young people trained, schools and clinics built, lives changed. We’ll provide you with compelling stories, visuals, and data so you can confidently report your impact to stakeholders, clients, and teams.
  • Be part of the conversation – and the solution:
    Contribute your perspective and join exclusive insight events, Women in Construction Talks, and learning sessions on inclusive development, green construction, and workforce transformation.
  • Experience impact up close: 
    Have an opportunity to join once-in-a-lifetime group trips to Zambia, where you’ll meet the young people you support, visit active projects, and witness your impact first-hand.
  • Track your impact with confidence
    Each year, we’ll send you a clear and inspiring impact report: metrics, photos, and human stories that make your contribution real and memorable.

Our purpose

Build It believes in a sustainable Africa where young people can work, thrive, and shape their own futures.

Your membership helps us move closer to that vision by supporting a model that gives young people real skills, real opportunity, and real hope.

It enables us to refine and expand our work in Zambia and lay the foundation for partnerships that can grow our impact across the region.

Trainees at the Centre for Excellence

You can support can help young people like Noel Phiri – who’s gone from learner to leader.

Noel completed his training with us in 2024. With his new skills and renewed confidence, he secured his first contract. Through hard work and determination, he has gone on to complete a number of projects.

Noel’s now employing former classmates to help him. He is supporting his family and is building them a home. Noel plans to return to school to finish his studies, and to continue growing his business.

“I felt I was nothing before this training… Now I’m in a better position – and I want to help others get there too.”

Noel also has political aspirations and would like to:

“…become a young leader who is able to influence and foster positive policy that will put young people with skills in a better position.”

Noel Phiri pictured on his graduation day with Build It Chair Lucie Kasanga

Simple, transparent membership

Choose the level that fits your impact goals

Whether you’re taking the first step or ready to go further, your membership helps us train young people, build essential infrastructure, and develop new models that can scale our impact:

Impact Member
£1,200 per year
Your membership could help:

  • Fund the training and work placements for 2 young people
  • Support the construction of schools, clinics, and toilets in underserved communities
  • Deepen our work in recruiting women into construction

Catalyst Partner
£6,000 per year
Your partnership could help:

  • Fund the training and work placements of 10+ young people
  • Support strategic programme development and model innovation
  • Contribute to the development of scalable models for youth development

Join us today

Become a founding member of the Building Futures Network. 

For further details and to join the Network, email: [email protected]

Let’s build something that lasts. Together.