news Issue 17 Autumn 2011
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Our Engagement work is gathering support
In this issue 2 Inspired words 2 Spreading our wings 3 Clapton’s fashion fix 3 Determination lets the show go on
Our success on Keep It Moving has led to further engagement work with NEET young people. Inspire! is building on the success of its engagement work with the award of two contracts through the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) to address the problems of young people 'at risk' of disengaging from education and those who are not in education, employment or training (NEET). The first contract is part of a North London Consortium initiative for 14-19 year-olds 'at risk' of becoming NEET, while the second is part of a pan-London programme to encourage 1619 year-old NEET young people to join an apprenticeship scheme and be supported through it for a minimum of 26 weeks. Between now and March 2014, our target is to engage and assist around 70 young people onto positive life and career paths. The programme makes use of the experience we have already gained on our engagement schemes, including Keep It Moving. It provides the young people with a mix of skills workshops, personal development, team and confidence building sessions, work taster placements and mentoring. Keep It Moving has already assisted more than 225 16-18 year-olds since it was launched in 2008 and contributed to reducing the rate of NEETs among 16-18 year-olds in Hackney from 12% to 6%. Robin Childs, Inspire!’s Senior Programme Manager (Engagement) explains the approach: “There are many complex and different reasons why a young person disengages from education. It could stem from a bad experience at school, problems at home,
drugs, substance abuse or other health issues, trouble with the police, learning or language difficulties. The key to getting them back on track is to undertake a thorough assessment and then build a learning plan that is tailored to the individual. “Sometimes these young people have unrealistic ideas about their future careers or no idea at all about what they want to do or might be good at. Our role is to encourage them to sample a range of options whether it be in music, fashion, media, beauty or IT/digital media and then equip them with the other skills that underpin that.” One thing we have learned in attempting to tackle the NEET issue is that a multiagency approach works best, so we are working in partnership with a number of local organisations, including New Regents College, the borough’s pupil referral unit. The London Borough of Waltham Forest is the lead agency for the consortium with the ‘at risk’ of becoming NEET group, reporting to the Skills Funding Agency/Young People’s Learning Agency. The BEP Group, a member of the London Education Business Partnership Network (LEBPN) is overseeing the pre-apprenticeship programme for 16-19 year-olds. Both programmes are financed through the European Union as part of its commitment to transforming lives through better skills and better job prospects.
4 Summer project keeps Regent’s students busy
4 Dominic moves on... 5 ...and au revoir to Karen 5 Now for the new arrivals
6 Exploring Business, Administration and the Law 6 Inside Slaughter and May 7 Work Week research 7 Clapton Girls speak out 7 Inspire receives Big Society boost 8 Trustee profile 8 Stop Press: more good news on contracts
Inspired words David Blagbrough Director of Inspire!
Against the background of a continuing difficult funding environment, recent social disturbances in Hackney and rising youth unemployment, the continued success of our schools in offering quality education, so manifest in the year on year improvement in both GCSE and A level results, is a stunning contrast and is to be applauded. For Inspire! too, there have been a few beacons of light. We have successfully secured a number of funding bids from the City of London, Young People’s Learning Agency (YPLA) with co-funding from the European Social Fund (ESF), and UBS. The City of London and YPLA funding will enable us to build on the not inconsiderable success we have had in helping to reduce the rate of NEETs in the borough and open the eyes of NEET young people from neighbouring boroughs to the wealth of employment opportunities in the City. UBS, which has maintained its faith in our ability to make a difference, has agreed to support our work in curriculum enrichment and vocational opportunities, principally with the Bridge Academy, but with elements feeding through to other secondary schools in the borough. We were also nominated by Hackney Council to lead a major bid against a tender from the Skills Funding Agency – again co-financed with the ESF - on behalf of six north London boroughs forming the North London Cluster. This will again extend our work with NEETs. A further dimension to our engagement programmes has been occasioned by the good news that YOH!, one of our partners on the Keep It Moving (KIM) programme, has won a significant bid from Trust for London. KIM has done well to encourage
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disengaged young people back into education or training, but this has yet to feed through to employment. The Trust for London funding will allow us and YOH! to engage with a wider range of employers who could be encouraged to address this situation. Inspire! was honoured to be shortlisted for a Lord Mayor’s Dragon Award for Community Partners for our ‘Learn for Work’ programme with Linklaters. Whilst the prize was not to be ours on the night, we took pleasure in the fact that one of the winners in another category, Heart of the City Award, was eFinancialCareers, whose bid we supported. We were also delighted that another of our City partners Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP – won the Lord Mayor's Award. Change is always difficult but we must embrace it to grow and move forward. Here, at Inspire!, it has been hard to accept the departures of two longstanding members of staff, Dominic Maher and Karen Diamond. Their contributions are acknowledged elsewhere in this newsletter. I am, however, delighted that in between establishing her new business, Karen will continue to work with us on a consultancy basis. We also said farewell to Joel McIlvern who was a tutor on our Inspired Programme and has moved to New York to undertake Masters degree in ‘Hip Hop’. He will be sorely missed by his students. Now we welcome and look forward to working with a number of new colleagues who have joined us in recent weeks. Sophie Priestnall joins the
secondary team as Programme Manager for Work Related Learning, Stella Oshin and Jessica Meese will strengthen our work experience team and Alice Kestell joins as Programme Officer in the primary team. They all bring their own unique attributes, ideas and talents to Inspire! Also departing from Hackney is Karen Mangan, from Business in the Community. Karen has worked hard to dovetail the school/business relationships established by Inspire! into the new Hackney Business Class model. She has proved to be a good friend and a more than capable pair of hands. We wish her success in her new role. Inspire! has taken its first step beyond Hackney’s borders with the award of a contract to support work experience for Parliament Hill School in Camden. This, combined with our extended work with NEETs, will see us aim to extend our employer database and work more closely with companies based in the City of London. The requirement for Inspire! to source work experience placements, of all types, has almost doubled over the past year or two, so support from existing and new companies becomes ever more important. So, we look to the New Year with excitement, confidence and some degree of apprehension but always with the conviction that we strive to do the best we can for young people in Hackney.
We are spreading our wings Inspire! has secured it first contract to work outside of Hackney. We have been approached by Parliament Hill School in Camden to source work experience placements for their Year 10 students. The placements are due to take place in the summer term and the school came to Inspire! after Camden EBP, part of Camden Council, was forced to close because of budget cuts. We are very excited by the prospect of working in a new borough, although it will prove a stiff challenge for our Employer Engagement team who will need to bring around 60 new employers in Camden on board.
Clapton’s fashion fix displays talent The end of the summer term saw 180 Year 8 and 9 students from Clapton Girls’ Academy take part in a one-day enterprise workshop called ‘Fashion Fix’. Eighteen volunteers from businesses including Linklaters, ING, Standard Chartered, AON, City of London Corporation and the Armed Forces helped to introduce the girls to the concept of enterprise and employability skills against a background of sustainable fashion. The students were invited to ‘pitch’ for a stall and catwalk show at London Fashion Week by designing and producing t-shirts with a sustainability theme. The girls took on individual roles within their teams, purchased materials from a classroom stall, costed their proposals and pitched their ideas together with a catwalk show to demonstrate their fashion ideas. Students voted for the overall winning team whose t-shirt designs were professionally digitised by a graphic design company to print onto shirts.
Students discuss their budgets
Determination lets the show go on Hackney school children showed their determination in the face of the recent disturbances by completing a theatre project culminating in a sparkling performance to almost 100 people at the New Arcola Theatre in August. The children were all part of our ‘Mind the Gap’ project, funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and which seeks to support pupils who may experience difficulties in making the move from primary to secondary school. A summer theatre project was central to the initiative, getting youngsters from different primary schools to work together
in their new school environment so that they would have new friends and familiar surroundings by the time the new academic year started. Working alongside them were theatre professionals and musicians from the New London Orchestra. Up to 15 children, at any one time over two weeks of the summer holiday period, turned up to write, rehearse and perform a short musical piece called ‘The Last Crystal of the Doominator’. One day of the project had to be curtailed because of the riots and despite the tensions of the aftermath, the youngsters, with the support of their families, were determined to finish the
project and showcase the talents and confidence that they had gained with a fantastic performance to a packed studio at the Arcola. All of the participants have now transferred to either the Petchey Academy or Urswick School (formerly Hackney Free & Parochial School). ‘Mind the Gap’ will enter its next phase with a series of mentoring sessions and events to help keep the pupils focused and on track. It is hoped that they might become peer mentors for a new intake of students at next year’s summer theatrical performance.
On stage at the Arcola
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Summer project keeps New Regent’s students busy
Participants at our graffiti workshop Inspire!’s Summer Project, delivered on behalf of New Regent’s Vocational College, provided an action-packed six weeks’ worth of activities that combined the acquisition of new skills with pure enjoyment. In total, we delivered 18 days (72 hours) of entertaining and learning opportunities. Sessions were designed to cater for small groups – up to 10 people per workshop –
and 24 people took part over the programme’s duration. At least six attended every day. There were different themed events throughout the summer including cookery, drama, graffiti art, hip hop, fashion and beauty, and sport, culminating in a day’s canoeing at the Laburnum Boat Club. Fifteen year-old Harley Von
Haidenthaler turned out for both the music and the fashion/beauty weeks. She said: “The nail day was really fun. I painted my partner’s nails. I also really enjoyed the hip hop as I’m hoping to break into the music business.” Our graffiti workshop at the Dalston Curve Garden turned out to be our most popular event with 12 people in attendance. Inspire! Project Manager, Dorothy Hodgson said: “New Regent’s College is the pupil referral unit for Hackney and many of these young people were at risk of disengaging from education during the long summer holiday period, or worse, running into trouble. The Summer Project was a positive way to keep them focused and, perhaps, help them discover a new talent. Our hip hop week, for example, uncovered some fantastic vocal talent and the students were motivated to write some rap that came out against the recent riots. “It was also encouraging to see new friendships formed on the programme. Several of the young people met up outside of the sessions socially. Trust and comradeship are important factors in some of these young people’s lives and it is good to know that they are building friendships and a support network.”
Dominic moves on... After seven years, we were sorry to wave farewell to Dominic Maher at the beginning of September. Dom joined Inspire! as an administrator during our first wave of recruiting. He steadily rose through the ranks to become Employer Liaison Officer and finally, Employment Engagement Manager. Along the way, he showed a great aptitude and empathy for working with students who had a low attendance at school and his success eventually paved the way for us to win a pilot Key Stage 4 Engagement Programme that went on to form the basis of our engagement work today. Dom also played a key role in growing our employer database, vital to supporting
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our many initiatives and not least, our work experience programme. He became a mentor on the Hackney Schools Mentoring Programme in 2005, was an active Primary Mentoring Partner at Tyssen Primary School and joined the board of Governors at St Dominic’s Primary School, which he had attended as a child. During his time with us, Dom became a first-time father to the delightful Oscar, now aged three and a half. His ready wit and mischievous sense of humour will be much missed – although, in spirit, he remains part of the Inspire! family, having moved not far away to work with BSix. We thank him for his not insignificant contribution over the past seven years.
Dominic at one of Inspire!’s workshops
...and au revoir to Karen Karen Diamond, Inspire!’s Senior Programme Manager (Secondary) is also moving on to pastures new. Karen joined us as our sole Primary Programme Manager and quickly made her made her mark, expanding the services we offer and the number of schools keen to take our programmes. Under her management, the primary team grew from one to three people. She was instrumental in shaping our Work Week programme for primary schools. This successful initiative has now been
taken up by more than a third of the borough’s primary schools. A role swap a couple of years ago, saw Karen move across from our primary team to secondary. Again she made an instant impact, extending our service to schools and adding two more members of staff to the secondary team, bringing its total to eight. Karen has decided on a complete career change. Having taken a course in floristry, she has opted to pursue this as her next challenge. She will continue to provide support to Inspire! on a freelance consultancy basis in a number of key areas: quality awards and marketing. Deputy Director, Kita Jiwani, who was
Karen’s counterpart on our secondary team when Karen arrived five years ago, has no doubt that she will succeed at whatever she puts her mind to: “Karen is very pragmatic, extremely committed to pursue quality and has a great ability to think clearly and unemotionally about what is in the best interests of the organisation. She is also very good at spotting an opportunity. She has brought all these qualities to bear at Inspire! and it is for this reason that we want to retain our contact with her. I have no doubt that she will be just as effective in the floristry industry. We thank her for all she has done and wish her well.”
Now for the new arrivals
The new recruits – Jessica, Stella, Sophie and Alice A clutch of new arrivals is busily settling in at 57 Dalston Lane and we hope to bring you more detailed information about them in future editions of Inspire! News. In the meantime, here is a brief who’s who. Stella Oshin joins the employer engagement team as Employer Liaison Officer. Stella has experience in both the recruitment and retail sectors. She will lead on Key Stage 4 work experience for several schools and will be responsible for Key State 5 tailored placements. Also joining the employer engagement team is Jessica Meese. As Employer Liaison Support Officer, she will handle much of the administration for work experience, including maintaining contact with current providers. She will also be charged with securing and organising volunteers for our work-related learning days. Jessica joins from Community Service Volunteers where she has been responsible for managing volunteers.
Amy Jenkins has been promoted to Employer Liaison Officer and, like Stella, will handle Key Stage 4 work experience for allocated schools. In addition, she will lead on work experience for our PreApprenticeship programme, Special Needs provision and NEET students. Alice Kestell has joined the primary team as Work-Related Learning Programme Officer. She takes responsibility for the Primary Brokerage Service and will also deliver our Work Week programme to selected schools. Alice began her career working in design and advertising for notfor-profit clients involved in education. She went on to re-train as a teacher, completing her qualified teacher status at a primary school in Lambeth. Lauren Thomas is due to join the secondary team as Work-Related Learning Programme Manager in December. Lauren is currently working with the school expedition company, World Challenge.
Also joining the secondary team, as Programme Officer, is Elizabeth Cope. Elizabeth arrives in November. In September, we welcomed Sophie Priestnall as our new Work-Related Learning Programme Manager. Sophie joined us from IntoUniversity where she was involved in designing and delivering programmes to raise young people’s aspirations. She was also responsible for running the corporate mentoring programme over the last academic year. Sophie has settled in so well to her role that it already seems as if she has been with us for far longer than a mere few weeks. We are delighted to announce two promotions. Joanne (Jo) Barker takes over Dominic’s role as Employer Engagement Manager. Jo will be well-known to those who come into contact with our employer engagement team. She joined Inspire! in 2005 as a Programme Administrator and was soon promoted to Employer Liaison Officer. She went on to become a vital member of our employer engagement team, taking six months sabbatical, last year, to spend time in Australia. Congratulations also to Lucy Rafferty who becomes Senior Programme Manager for Secondary Programmes. Lucy originally joined Inspire!’s primary team and later moved across to manage our secondary curricular enrichment and vocational activity.
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Exploring Business, Administration and the Law Inspire!’s ‘Opening Doors to Business, Administration and the Law’, programme has given Hackney students the chance to find out about these careers by meeting those involved. The initiative was funded by London East Thames Gateway Aimhigher and has facilitated visits by schools to various City companies. The first of these was Cardinal Pole School which sent 37 Year 10 students to Linklaters for the day. Here they met some of the firm’s employees together with young people who are studying at university or college with a view to pursuing careers in law or business.
Students had the chance to question Linklaters’ staff about their jobs
A careers carousel enabled the Cardinal Pole students to question Linklaters staff about the jobs they do and how they got there. The line-up included a lawyer as well as those involved in IT, accounts and other services that support the lawyers in their work. Yet more employees were introduced during a tour of the building that took in the finance department, service desk, gymnasium and community investment department. After lunch, there were workshops with national apprentices, students from Hackney’s BSix 6th Form College and undergraduates in law and business management from the University of East London. These were designed to illustrate the different progression routes available and to encourage students to pursue their studies beyond the age of 16. Some light-hearted team exercises also challenged the students to demonstrate some of the skills and qualities that will serve them well in the world of work. Commenting on the day, 15 year-old Emma Pham said: “I learnt a lot today but especially about apprenticeships and I might consider that route because it seems a good way to earn money and possibly do a degree as well. However, I have always wanted to go to university and my parents would like me to. I haven’t decided yet but I would like to become a solicitor or an accountant.” Students from Hackney Free & Parochial School also took part in the scheme, spending a day at investment bank, UBS.
Insider’s view of Slaughter and May BSix 6th form college students with an eye on careers in a business or legal environment got a glimpse into the workings of the busy law firm, Slaughter and May at its City of London offices. The visit took place during the college’s ‘World of Work’ week and the 25 young people were welcomed by Peter Brien, one of the firm’s partners. Peter is also Chairman of Inspire! He gave an overview of Slaughter and May’s work, emphasising the broad range of jobs and careers that a large City business offers and the diversity of work involved in the legal profession. “Law is not just about money and businesses. If you are into music, scientific research, tv, media or even sport, you can be involved in advising those industries. “People here sometimes work round the clock but our lawyers are backed up by an incredible staff who work in IT, finance, photocopying, human resources, catering, security. You may not want to be a lawyer but look around today and maybe it will give you some other ideas about working in the City.”
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Peter Brien welcomes the students There was a chance to meet and question a cross section of employees including a legal secretary, newly qualified solicitor, accountant and receptionist, before a tour of the building showed more staff at work and day-to-day working conditions. After lunch, the group met Human Resources manager, Morwenna Lewis, who outlined the role of HR. The group was shown two CVs and asked to decide which candidate they would be most likely to employ.
One BSix student clearly impressed by the day and who took her chance to quiz lawyer, Phineas Hirsch, was 18 year-old Anthia Omari-Amoako. She said: “I have a very strong passion for law. I don’t want to do anything else. I want to become a barrister.” With a number of offers from prestigious universities already on the table, it looks as if she will very likely succeed.”
Clapton Girls speak out to take London title
The Clapton Girls' team - winners of the London Debate Challenge Congratulations to Najima Ahmed, Rommana Delair and Jamiah Okoye from Clapton Girls’ Academy who beat off teams from 23 other London boroughs to take the London Debate Challenge 2011 title, organised by the English-Speaking Union. The school only started debating this year and students have been trained and mentored by debate coach, Debbie Newman, as part of the Linklaters ‘Learn for Work’ programme, managed by Inspire! Around 200 schools entered the competition with 24, each representing a London borough, making it through to finals day, hosted at Central Hall, Westminster. Here, the Clapton team took part in preliminary heats. The four highest scoring teams from schools in Hackney, Lambeth, Westminster and Bromley, then debated two motions ‘This House would allow students to skip school to go on political protests’ and ‘This House would introduce compulsory random drug testing in all schools’. Each topic was debated passionately in front of a 150-strong audience but it was the wellrounded arguments, analytical skills and quick thinking from Najima, Rommana and Jamiah that convinced the judges to award them the title. Debbie Newman was obviously delighted to see the girls fare so well. “This was a fantastic, and unexpected, result for a school who only started debating this year. Anna Garsia from Linklaters helped to prepare the girls for the competition and obviously did a super job.” Tyssen School was also involved in an English-Speaking Union competition. Having won the Linklaters Debate Challenge, the team qualified for the ESU’s Primary Schools Public Speaking Competition, hosted at its Dartmouth House headquarters in Mayfair.
Work Week research Inspire!’s Work Week was piloted in 2006-07 as an innovative, high impact work-related learning programme for primary school children. The initiative offers a week-long, structured series of work and career-related activities that seek to develop children’s awareness, knowledge and skills for the world of work. Every year group in the school takes part, with its own themed programme. By Year 6, pupils are engaging with sophisticated concepts such as profit and loss, supply Our research will measure the impact and demand and a Dragon’s Den-style of Work Week pitch. We have now delivered Work Week to four years at their various feeder primary more than 15,000 children. The feedback schools; some will have taken part in Work we have received from schools is very Week for only one or two years whilst a positive and our evaluation, to date, has third group will have no experience of an measured how much the children have enjoyed and engaged with the programme. Inspire! Work Week. Around 100 short questionnaires have We are now taking our research further, been issued to pupils as the first step. thanks to funding from the City of London, Once we have had an opportunity to already a supporter of Work Week. With the evaluate the responses and take into help of an experienced social science account other influences such as having a researcher, we want to measure young parent/guardian in work (or not) and people’s aspirations and attitudes to and other work-related learning activity, we awareness of the world of work in order to will draw up a target group of around 20 more scientifically assess the impact of pupils. Work Week. We then plan to interview these The research will be carried out with a students in more depth, with possible cohort of Year 7 pupils at Cardinal Pole RC further interviews undertaken with their School. Some of them will have respective parents/guardians and teachers. experienced Work Week activities for up to
Inspire! Receives Big Society boost Inspire! has received £152,000 from the Government’s Transition Fund to help young people in the borough. The fund is designed to assist charities, which are most vulnerable to reductions in public spending, to prepare for new opportunities being developed to support a Big Society. David Blagbrough, Inspire!’s Director, says the money is being used to improve and streamline operational support and programme delivery to meet the challenges of significant cuts in local and central government funding. “We will use the transition funding to make better use of technology, putting more resources online and introducing more robust systems to monitor and control costs. We also plan to design and develop new programmes of benefit to young people in Hackney, including an enterprise challenge programme for primary schools and new work-related
learning activities that support the Olympic ideals whilst also drawing on the interests and expertise of employee volunteers.” Nick Hurd, Minister for Civil Society, said: “The Transition Fund is part of a much wider package of support for charities and voluntary groups and social enterprises. We are opening up new opportunities for charities to deliver public services, cutting red tape and developing new sources of finance such as the Big Society Bank. “However, the scale of the economic challenges we face as a country mean that charities are facing tough times. All the charities receiving transition funds have a plan to overcome current challenges and emerge stronger. We recognise the hugely important contribution charities make to our society and we are committed to supporting them.”
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Trustee profile Harry Reeder Director Indirect Tax, KPMG
It seems almost inevitable that Harry Reeder was destined for a role at Inspire! A Hackney resident and a passionate supporter of volunteering with young people, his background seems a perfect fit. “Before I came across Inspire!, I was actually volunteering one day a week at Jubilee Primary School in Hackney for a couple of years. I really enjoyed my time there. Then, through KPMG’s CSR team, I got involved with the City Academy which the company sponsors. I also volunteered for a Dragon’s Den, organised by Inspire! at a primary school. I thought it was absolutely fantastic and I was impressed with the whole concept. I particularly remember it coincided with Eid, so some
of the children who had worked on the project all week were not able to attend the presentation. One team ended up with just one child but he stood up and made the presentation on his own – it was great!” When KPMG’s CSR team approached Harry to see if he would be interested in a trustee role with Inspire!, he was intrigued. “I obviously knew about Inspire! by then, so I went along to meet with David (Blagbrough) and it turned out to be a treasury role. Although I am a tax adviser at KPMG, I’m not an accountant or auditor but it seemed they were looking to me as more of a sounding board for their decisions and judgements rather than the nitty gritty; also to draw on my experience from the wider business world. In a previous life, I was a VAT inspector and I have advised not for profit organisations as well as corporate businesses. “Inspire! has got its eye on the finances and they are never far from David’s thoughts. Between him and Abigail (Mason), they know what they are doing but sometimes they just want to
Inspire! would like to thank the following funders for their support Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Linklaters
Big Lottery Fund
London East Thames Gateway (LETG)
Cadbury Foundation
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
City of London Corporation
St Katherine and Shadwell Trust
CMS Cameron McKenna East Hackney Schools Consortium EiC Action Zone Freshfields Hackney Council KPMG The Learning Trust
Skills Funding Agency (European Social Fund) Slaughter and May UBS West Hackney Parochial Charity YOH
bounce their ideas off me. There’s no question it’s difficult out there at the moment. David suggested that we meet more regularly to review things and I suggested reporting to the board more often during this time so that we can take decisions quickly, if we have to. It’s also important that they keep the line for funding applications live and I think that’s now beginning to pay off.” A keen amateur dramatics participant, Harry acts with the Tower Theatre and is fresh from performing in a play at St Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch. He was sorry to have missed the ‘Mind Your Gap’ performance at the Arcola Theatre but, as a writer of poetry, was very taken with some of the work he read from Hackney students. “I’m very impressed by Inspire! and the whole concept of teaching children about the business world. It was something I never had access to at school or university. I remember my very first job was a huge culture shock, so the idea of introducing young people to business resonates with me 100%”
Stop press more good news on contracts Inspire! was delighted when Hackney Council showed its faith in us by nominating Inspire! to lead a further funding bid to the European Social Fund on behalf of North London Cluster (Barnet, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest). This is for additional work with NEET young people. We are thrilled to report that we have just learned that we have been successful with our application. The contract involves the award of £750,000 for us to lead a consortium of six boroughs with each delivering wrap around support for 425 NEET young people over the next two and a half years, moving them back into education, employment or training. We will bring you further news in our next issue.
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