Scottish Mentoring Network Award Workingrite are very happy to announce that due to our hard work and ongoing success we have recieved the Scottish Mentoring Network ‘Continuing Excellence 2012’ Award.
MSP Gets Down With the Kids Youth Unemployment Minister Angela Constance’s visit to a Workingrite project as described by the Alloa Advertiser.
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 »