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LBB Work Experience 2017/18
Bromley Education Business Partnership continues to coordinate the Council’s work experience scheme. This year, we received 34 applications from students in years 10, 11 and 12. Max Mulcahy, work experience placements coordinator, worked to promote the value of work experience and managed to secure placements in a range of departments including Libraries, IT, Bromley Children Project, Democratic Services, Commissioning...
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Employers go back to school!
Over 20 volunteer employers from local and national business and the community spent last Friday 13th July back at school. They worked with 260 students from Year 10 at Darrick Wood School helping them to be better prepared for the world of work. The volunteers worked with a group of 6/7 young people and took them through a number of activities to help them better understand the range of opportunities open to them when they finish their studies. It was a very hot day but that didn’t deter the students from really engaging and chatting with the employers to find o...
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Thames Water Education Centre/Site Visits - Dartford
Thames Water are constructing an education centre which will be ready for school visits from September 2018. Further details about school visits can be found on their website (Long Reach will be added to the website shortly): https://corporate.thameswater.co.uk/About-us/Community/Tools-for-schools/School-visits Note: Up to 30 students per visit A typical visit is from 10am – 2pm Visits include a tour of the sewage treatment works and various curriculum focused workshops and practical activities Address: Long Reach Sewage Treatment Works Marsh Street Dartford DA1 5PP Further to school visits Thames Water also offer a range of activities/resources: ‘Community Speaker’ visi...
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Jobs Fair brings young people and employers together
Bromley’s Youth Employment Scheme (YES) delivered by Bromley Education Business Partnership held their third annual Jobs Fair at the Bromley Central Library last Friday 6th July. 90 young people from the local area who are currently looking for work dropped in during the morning to find out more about the opportunities available. Over 25 local and national employer organisations were represented at the event covering a range of work sectors. These included painting & decorating with Bell Group, Cleverbox (a local web design company), Greggs, Kings College Hospital and MyTime Active. Employers and training providers brought along ‘live’ job/training opportunities to promote and talk through with the young p...
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Stars from the community
The London Borough of Bromley holds an annual celebration event called Bromley Stars (sponsored by LBB contractors). This event celebrates the fantastic work carried out in Bromley. The 90 strong team of Bromley Mentoring Initiative mentors were nominated under the category of volunteers who make a huge contribution to Bromley services and we are delighted to report that they won! This is fantastic publicity for the work they do but also a great way for LBB Senior Management to acknowledge the commitment and dedication they show to the young people they support. Their contribution in hours equates to over 3,400 over an academic year and in excess of £25,000 if we paid them! Cllr Kate Lymer, Portfoli...
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