Ambassadors - East Midlands
Off to a Flying Start
The East Midlands Region has got off to a flying start for this years information
sessions which are being held throughout the region in key locations during
the months of February and March. Our first session took place in Lincoln and
Mansfield and Derby places are already filling up for later this month with
Leicester and Daventry in need of a boost to their numbers for March so please,
any further promotion or networking you can give to this to get even more engagement
would be greatly valued!
East Midlands Businesses on a Mission to Improve Employee
Engagement
Employers from across the region recently attended an event at Brush
Electrical, designed to help them understand the business benefits
of improving the way they engage their employees.
It was organised by East Midlands Development Agency (emda)
and Acas, in conjunction with the Department for Business, Innovation
and Skills (BIS).
The event was part of a groundbreaking project which Acas has launched,
together with emda, to help employees improve employee engagement,
innovation and business performance.
NTA Winner of the Year, Training Provider; Wheelbase
Driving Young Offenders Back to Education
A Nottingham charity is reaching out to excluded young people with
mechanics courses.
The Wheelbase Motor Project is an independent charity that uses motor vehicle training and motorsport to motivate disaffected young people. The charity first opened its doors in 1992 to youths between 16 and 18 years who had already committed some kind of motor crime. Its target group has now widened to include any young person aged between 14 and 25 years.
Research carried out in 1988 revealed that the typical car crime offender came from a socially deprived inner city, had lost contact with formal education, had no qualifications and was unlikely to have any experience of a job.
Wheelbase's trainees have needs that make it difficult or impossible to take part in mainstream education. In order to break this spiral of deprivation, the charity has to take a different approach.
