We are pleased to announce that Working Rite have moved office and our new address is 1 Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 7BG. Our telephone numbers and e-mail addresses remain the same.
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.
Latest News
We are delighted to announce that we have successfully secured new contracts from Skills Development Scotland to deliver work based mentoring to 120 young people across our seven projects in 2011/12.
'Work Pairing' based on the experience of Working Rite was announced in the 2010 UK Govt. Agreement. For more information on the development of Work Pairing in England click here
Who we are
Working Rite is a social enterprise that sets up and delivers work-based mentoring and learning projects for 16-19 year olds accross Scotland - and now expanding into England and Northern Ireland. Our head office is in Leith, Edinburgh.
What we do
We deliver 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.
What people say
"We will support the development of work-based mentoring for young Scots, along the lines of the Working Rite Model"
SNP Election Manifesto 2007.
Working Rite won the Centre for Social Justice Award 2009
"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, Minister of State for Work and Penstions, Former Chairman of the CSJ
As 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