Working Rite has
received investment from the Learning
Launchpad fund, a social investment fund that aims
to support the most innovative educational social enterprises in
Britain.
Working
Rite won the Centre for Social Justice
Social Enterprise Award 2009
Working Rite CIC
was founded with support from the Wood Family Trust
and the Laidlaw Youth Trust.
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| Who we
are:
Working Rite CIC is an Edinburgh based social enterprise
specialising in work-based mentoring projects.
What we do:
We set up projects matching up youngsters with local
employers to give them real work experience and a rite
of passage into the world of work and adulthood.
Projects using the Working Rite method
are continually generating 75% plus success rates in
progressing youngsters into full time employment and
apprenticeships.
We have set up projects in the following
areas:
• Dundee & Angus
• Edinburgh
• Glasgow (two projects)
• Perth
• Scottish Borders
• Sheffield
• Newcastle
• Sunderland
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| Latest
News
"Inspired by
the successful Working Rite model, we will match up
100,000 young people with sole traders for a 6 months
work experience. Your first boss - one of the most
influential people in so many of our lives. We are
calling on sole traders to seize this opportunity.
We will strip away the bureaucracy and let them teach
the youngsters. It's a win for them; a win for the
teenager, and a win for society"
Baron
Freud, Conservative Party Conference 2009
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Rite has won the Centre for Social Justice Award 2009
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for link]
"Having
developed a very effective yet easily replicable model
to tackle the growing number of young people who are
Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET), Working
Rite is an excellent example of the third sector’s
capabilities: providing innovative solutions to problems
that have long defeated the State. I am delighted that
we have been able to reward and recognise their work
through our Awards programme."
Iain Duncan Smith MP, Chairman of the CSJ
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the government is serious about doubling the number
of apprenticeships we are going to need a hell of a
lot of appropriate placements. Not just any placement,
but the kind of appropriate way forward that you are
working on."
David
Blunkett, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside |
| “We
will support the development of work-based for young
Scots, along the lines of the Working Rite Model”
SNP Election Manifesto 2007.
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