Inspire
The decline of our traditional industries has resulted in failing family structures and generations of worklessness, leaving many young people with poor or no skills and little prospect of employment or progressing through education.
The Inspire and Achieve Foundation passionately believes that everyone has the right to an education and we can no longer afford to deny disadvantaged young people the opportunity to grow and progress into the successful adults they want and deserve to be.
The focus of the Foundation has been to support the work undertaken at West Nottinghamshire College’s Ashfield Centre. The Ashfield Centre is a unique specialist facility offering vocational courses at entry/level 1 and a bespoke individual support service and network for each learner. Since opening in 2007 the Centre has seen almost 250 young people progress to other education or work and continues to excel as a model of good practice which, with the Foundation’s support, has been disseminated to organisations across the UK as a ‘DNA’ that can be adapted in other communities.
Through fundraising activities, the Foundation aims to support the following initiatives:
- Build and establish a vocational support Centre using a model of good practice, the Ashfield Centre, as DNA, to attract impossible to reach young people back into a learning environment;
- Encourage employers to ‘sponsor a learner’ for as little as £30 per week providing much needed support towards the cost of food, transport and other basic day to day needs that we may take for granted but without this financial help may prevent a learner from attending college and subsequently ‘dropping out’.
- Release staff at the Ashfield Centre to share and promote its unique work with other organisations throughout the UK as a tried and tested model of success which can be used as a DNA for other projects.
- Promote the Behaviour Management resources produced by staff at the Ashfield Centre as a best practice toolkit to address the often complex needs of disengaged learners returning to education.
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