NCE Path
Understand barriers. Build a personalised pathway. Prepare with an AI mentor. Record learning and verified achievements.
Explore Human Potential TechnologyHUMAN POTENTIAL TECHNOLOGY
A future built
around you.
Your ambitions. Your circumstances.
A path as individual as you are.
NCE connects personalised support with practical skills, community opportunities and routes into work or enterprise. NCE Path is the technology we’re developing to guide each person’s journey.
In development · Seeking feedback and pilot partners
THE POSSIBILITIES START WITH A PERSON“I’d love to make something of my own.”Illustrative ambition
Potential into practiceSkills · Confidence · Opportunity
PERSONALISED SUPPORTCOMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONREAL-WORLD ACHIEVEMENT
ONE MISSION. TWO CONNECTED PARTS.
A path forward.
A place to take it.
A person can have ambition and still feel stuck. Our model connects NCE Path’s personalised guidance with practical opportunities through Reconnect programmes, local partners and proposed Forge spaces.
NCE Forge
Reconnect programmes bring the pathway into everyday life: learn a skill, join a Community Mission or get support to reach an opportunity. Forge is our ambition for spaces that bring this together.
Explore NCE ForgeNCE Institute sets the vision. Path connects the journey. Reconnect brings practical opportunities. Forge is our ambition for the places that bring them together.
SMALL STEPS. REAL POSSIBILITIES.
A journey worth investing in.
Illustrative scenes showing our proposed approach; these are not photographs of an NCE pilot.
REAL-WORLD WAYS FORWARD
Find a starting point.
See where it could lead.
Each proposed programme has a place in the same journey. Path would help someone find a suitable opportunity, connect support and recognise what they achieve.
CONNECTION & PRACTICAL SKILLS
Reconnect British Barbers
A haircut and conversation can open the door to supported barbering, supervised practice and building a professional identity.
Connected by Path Find a welcoming first step → explore training → record practical achievements.
Explore British Barbers ↗
CREATIVITY & ENTERPRISE
Digital Enterprise Hub
Try website design, social media, YouTube or 3D printing. Build something with a mentor and explore further learning or an enterprise idea.
Connected by Path Match interests to a taster → create a project → build skills evidence and choose what’s next.
Explore Digital Enterprise ↗CONTRIBUTION & BELONGING
Community Missions
Voluntary, supported tasks—from gardens to beach cleans—offer a manageable way to contribute, meet people and practise skills.
Connected by Path Find a suitable mission → agree support → verify contribution in a Skills Passport.
Explore Community Missions ↗
ACCESS & PARTICIPATION
Reconnect Mobility
Our proposed shared transport service would help people reach learning and community opportunities when travel is the barrier.
Connected by Path Identify the travel barrier → check available support → make the planned next step reachable.
Explore Reconnect Mobility ↗Proposed programmes · Illustrative concept imagery, not photographs of an NCE pilot. Activities and transport depend on funding, partners and availability.
A PERSONALISED PATH FORWARD
How does Path
bring it together?
Choose a stage to explore how personalised support connects someone’s ambitions to real-world opportunities. A pathway can adapt as circumstances change.
NCE PATH / JOURNEY EXPLAINER
01 / START WITH THE PERSON
What would you like your future to look like?
Explore interests, strengths and ambitions, alongside the barriers making progress difficult. A pathway begins with listening.
ILLUSTRATIVE PARTICIPANT JOURNEYAn interest in making things.
A creative person wants to explore running a small business, but lacks confidence and doesn't know where to start.
CreativityConfidenceEnterprise
A MENTOR BETWEEN MILESTONES
Support for the moments
between appointments.
The proposed AI companion would help turn a big goal into a manageable next step — offering preparation, encouragement and a place to practise.
01
Prepare with confidenceRehearse interviews, explore ideas and practise explaining your skills.
02
Find your focusBreak tasks down, build routines and try optional breathing or grounding exercises.
03
Keep your support connectedRecord updates and review what is shared with a keyworker, including draft progress summaries.
Proposed features. Human support, participant choice and review of AI-generated notes remain part of the design.
NCE PathInterview practice · Concept preview
Let’s start with something you’ve already achieved. Tell me about your Community Mission.
I helped organise a beach clean. I welcomed the group and made sure everyone knew their task.
That’s a useful example of communication and teamwork. What did you do when plans changed?
EXAMPLE SKILLS EVIDENCECommunication · Teamwork · InitiativeEvidence would be checked with the activity organiser.
An illustration of the proposed experience
NCE COMMAND / FOR FRONTLINE PROFESSIONALS
Your experience should shape
the technology you use.
A practitioner workspace for caseloads, case preparation and frontline ideas. Discover how NCE Command connects to Path and how improvement proposals reach human review.
Explore the practitioner workspaceWE KNOW YOUR IDEAS MATTER.We’re on the
frontline with you.
frontline with you.
Your insight. Our technology. Better outcomes.
Working prototype · Fictional dataHUMAN POTENTIAL RETURN
Progress for people.
Value for communities.
HPR is our proposed framework for understanding what changes and evaluating programme value. It measures outcomes—not a person’s worth.
01 / PEOPLEConfidence, skills and progression
02 / COMMUNITIESContribution and stronger local connections
03 / PUBLIC VALUEOutcomes considered alongside programme costs
Explore the assumptions behind the numbers.
Use the dedicated HPR engine to model five-year fiscal returns, break-even and sensitivity scenarios.
Illustrative planning tool · Not measured NCE resultsA SPECIALIST PATHWAY / HPR-J
Research and opportunity beyond release.
Our proposed justice strand applies the Path approach to learning, progression and preparation for life after release. We’re seeking research and operational partners to shape a first test.
WHY NCE BEGAN
It started
with listening.
Adam PowellFounder, NCE Institute
Conversations in my salon kept returning to the same thing: people had ambitions and abilities, but the help they needed was fragmented.
Small opportunities to contribute could change how someone saw themselves. Building my own digital businesses made me wonder what more people could achieve with practical support and a path built around them.
That is the idea NCE Path is being developed to test.
HELP SHAPE THE FIRST TEST
Bring your experience.
Challenge our thinking.
We’re seeking feedback from councils, employment providers, community organisations, researchers and people with lived experience, to shape focused pilots across North Yorkshire and Teesside. Our Reconnect programme proposals and Forge 01 ambition focus on Middlesbrough; delivery locations will be agreed with partners.
01
Does this meet a real need?
Tell us where support breaks down and which parts would make a difference.
02
What should we test first?
Help define a useful participant journey, appropriate support and evidence of progress.
03
Could we explore a pilot?
Discuss a suitable cohort, local opportunities, delivery responsibilities and evaluation.
Early development stage. Features, partnerships and impact are proposed and require validation. This site does not collect participant records.