Dewire.life helps young people and their parents reduce screen dependency — and find clear pathways into work, education, and training. Free, always.
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Entry-level always shown first. Saturday jobs prioritised — because the first payslip changes everything.
Most small businesses don't know what's on the table. Up to £5,000+ in incentives, zero NI on under-21s, fully funded training. Here's everything, plainly explained.
Real, current UK government payments and savings — updated for 2026. Most small employers don't know they exist.
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From Saturday jobs to full apprenticeships. Post on Dewire.life and reach motivated young people in your area.
Practical guides, family challenges, community support, and pathways to get your teenager back on track.
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No lectures. No judgment. A way back to the stuff that actually feels good — and the opportunities that go with it.
Free and low-cost activities always shown first. Sports, arts, volunteering, outdoors — get off the phone and into the world.
Not a detox. A reset. Daily nudges, peer support, and badges worth sharing.
The story, the mission, and the people behind it.
I'm a Sales Director at a global engineering manufacturing company. Nine years ago I walked out of university and into that job — nervous, underprepared, and grateful for the opportunity. So when I started struggling to hire graduates into the same kind of entry-level roles, I paid attention.
It wasn't dramatic at first. Fewer people turning up to open days. Candidates at the very start of their careers making salary demands that didn't match the reality of where they were. A general sense that something had shifted in the gap between university and the workplace. I noticed it, filed it away, and assumed it was a blip.
It wasn't a blip. I started digging — LinkedIn, industry conversations, news, research. The NEET figures stopped me cold. Over a million young people in the UK not in education, employment or training. An influx of government employer incentives that only exist because the problem is serious enough to require intervention. A post-COVID generation that had spent its most formative years behind a screen, often with nowhere obvious to go when those screens were put down.
The screen dependency piece clicked personally. I caught myself reaching for my phone without knowing why — checking for validation, filling silence, killing time. I've been doing it for years. And I'm a 30-something with a career, a structure, a reason to be somewhere every morning. I can only imagine what it feels like at 17 or 21, with none of that, and a phone that offers something that feels like connection on demand.
If I — a director at a globally successful company — can't find the young people I need, that's not a recruiting problem. That's a signal. And if I can see my own dependency in a mild form and recognise how much harder it must hit a teenager with no structure around them, that's not a theory. That's empathy built from honest self-reflection.
So I built Dewire.life. Not because I had a tech background or a venture capital deck. Because I felt compelled. Because the problem was visible from where I was standing, the dots connected clearly, and nobody seemed to be joining them up in a way that was practical, free, and genuinely useful to everyone involved — employers who need young people, parents trying to guide them, and young adults who just need a push in the right direction and a guided path to something real.
"If I can't hire successfully as a director at a globally successful company, that speaks to a wider problem. I felt compelled to do something about it."
— Founder, Dewire.life · Ebbsfleet, Kent
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