On Saturday 24th February I was honoured to be chosen as the guest speaker for #SkillsFest2018 in Barrow in Furness, South Cumbria. Skills Fest is an annual celebration of jobs, placements and opportunities in the South Lakes / Furness region … Continued
Here’s another short blog post for you – it’s a daily reminder, print it off, put it on the fridge, next to the kettle, at your desk, on your bike, on the mirror…you get the idea: “Be SO GOOD … Continued
Future Skills – research and responses. There have been a few new studies and reports written recently about careers development, support and access in the UK. I read a few of them over the weekend and will try and make … Continued
Skills and knowledge or skills v knowledge? Our last blog was about the World Economic Forum’s research into the skills needs for the 21st Century and so by definition, what we need our young people to be learning about alongside … Continued
New skills, old skills? New organisations, revisited skills? As you will probably know, we have been working with young people for 12 years – we started off delivering Enterprise programmes (hence the name!) in schools and we’ve developed in a … Continued
National Careers Week review. #NCW2017 was an amazing, exhausting, fun, far-reaching, exciting and life-changing experience for everyone involved. There were events held in schools, colleges, universities and businesses to support young people in their career aspirations, pathways and to increase … Continued
“There was luck involved…had I been brought up in Newcastle, Leeds, Birmingham or Bristol there would have been no indoor cycling and no Olympic Gold medals”. The above quote is from a multiple Gold-medal winning GB Track Cyclist and highlights … Continued
It’s here! The TEDx talk I delivered at TEDxWhitahaven on 7th September has been approved and put onto the TED YouTube channel. Featuring our work over the past 10 years, the title of the talk is Engineering Random Opportunities for … Continued
On 6th July I had the privilege of working with the Prudential and the Transformation Trust at the London Olympic Velopark as a preparation event for the Pru RideLondon sportive at the end of the July. We delivered a session … Continued
The perfect time is right now. “I trained for eight months. Then I just felt I was ready. I could have delayed it, to get fitter or secure more funding, but I might never have left. Many people postpone making … Continued