Minister To See The ‘Rite’ Way To Help Youth Employment The Youth Employment Minister is to see at first-hand the pioneering work being done by social enterprise Workingrite in helping young people into full-time work. Angela Constance will meet a group of trainees and their employers in Alloa during a 90-minute visit to Workingrite’s Forth… Read more »
Oban Bright Spark Makes the Most of His Job. Press&Journal Article 29.6.12 – William Ward
Funding boost puts social enterprise on ‘rite’ lines Jobless youngsters across Scotland are to be helped to find full-time employment as part of a major contract awarded to a pioneering social enterprise. Edinburgh-based Workingrite will deliver a £500,000 contract from Skills Development Scotland (SDS), to extend its highly successful work-based mentoring programme into new parts of the… Read more »
About Sandy Campbell and Workingrite Sandy Campbell is the Director of Workingrite – a social enterprise and charity that delivers work-based mentoring and learning for 16-18 year old young people. Workingrite manages 7 projects operating in different parts of Scotland achieving over 80% progression into full-time employment and apprenticeships. Sandy created Workingrite in 2004. His… Read more »
Radical: and not just because we actually work Workingrite has received an award as one of Britain’s top 50 Radicals – as judged by The Observer and NESTA – a London based think tank. As Geoff Mulgan, the Chief Executive of NESTA said: “a radical is someone who struggles against the odds to achieve something… Read more »
New offices and contract We are pleased to announce that Workingrite has moved office and our new address is 1 Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 7BG. Our telephone numbers and e-mail addresses remain the same. We are also delighted to announce that we have successfully secured new contracts from Skills Development Scotland to deliver work… Read more »
Life Changing Funds are a Vital Community Life Line The Herald – 4 January 2011 Life Changing Funds are a Vital Cummunity Life Line
You’re hired: white van man and the real apprentices Article by Ian Jack Orignially published in The Guardian, Saturday 20 November 2010 The Big Society is a place of many mansions and lord knows how many shacks, crescents, terraces, alleys and cul-de-sacs: a cluttered landscape of all kinds of charities and volunteer groups that we’ve… Read more »
Banking on the ‘big society’ Originally published in The Guardian on 1st June 2010 Social enterprises need more than a bank to really solve this country’s toughest social problems Can a bank save the big society? With the plans for the development of a “big society bank” endorsed on Monday, government has never put… Read more »
Pupils turned off school find a new route to success Orgininally published in The Guardian on Tuesday 2nd of February 2010 A new work-based mentoring programme akin to an apprenticeship is having great success with young people who don’t get on with school Ashleigh McIntosh has had a three-month placement at Fairfield Housing Association…. Read more »