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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…
RIO has today been announced as one of just 10 winners to receive an RBS Inspiring Youth Enterprise Grant. Close to 200 organisations submitted applications for funding to run programmes for young people in enterprise. From those applications, twenty-two organisations from across the UK were shortlisted, before ten were chosen as the eventual winners. The grant applications were submitted online…