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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 »

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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 »


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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 »


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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 »


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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 »


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  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 »


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  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 »


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  The real meaning of social enterprise   If Cameron’s new model army is to change Britain, we’ll need my friend Mark Orginially published in The Independent on Thursday, 12 November 2009 Mark Peters is 32. His parents fostered a number of children, one of whom, John, was sectioned in his late teens. John’s dispiriting treatment… Read more »


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  Our Fifties-style ‘chalk and talk’ schools clearly aren’t working   Originally published in The Independent on Saturday, 10 October 2009 In his 1930s bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie argued that success was 15 per cent technical knowledge and 85 per cent the ability to express ideas, assume leadership and arouse… Read more »