A group of Year 11 students from Plymstock School in Plymouth travelled to London to visit The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) on 21st November to raise the profile of their social enterprise, Our Way, as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. The students took to the West London address with enthusiasm and a professionalism that would have been…
Plymouth Social Enterprise Week is in its third year running, and this week has seen over a thousand people take part in the various events, doubling figures on last year. The Global Entrepreneurship Week takes place across the UK, and aims to highlight the importance of social enterprise as a growing sector, and ensure it becomes a part of everyday…
Students create a community festival for the ‘Happiness of People Everywhere’!
RIO assists young people gain experience, training and employment.
The Social Enterprise Qualification, developed in the south west, is forging an international reputation as the top school in Uganda will now be delivering it as part of their curriculum. Teaching staff from Wampeewo Ntakke School were trained as SEQ mentors on a recent visit to Westlands School, Torquay and will now take their skills and knowledge back to Uganda…
Secret Fridays, an entertainment and employability programme run by Real Ideas Organisation, started again in October and will run for 12 weeks, and we are looking for more 16 – 19 year olds to join! If you didn’t make the open day in October, don’t worry. You can still get involved. We’re looking for young people who are not in…
The first learner in the UK to achieve a Gold SEQ (Social Enterprise Qualification) has been recognised in the national SFEDI awards week. SFEDI, the Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative, is a government recognised standards body for business enterprise and support who allows accreditation for the qualification. Amber Webster from Aster Group, whose innovative mobile phone app helped her achieve…
