Category: Chair’s Blog

Career Ready (https://careerready.org.uk/) are a charity who aim to improve social mobility by taking encouraging students from disadvantaged backgrounds to go to university.

The remit includes a wide selection of resourced activities which you support on the ground. Career Ready works with TVCA career hub mostly in 23 of the 64 Tees Valley schools and also 4 Further Education (FE) colleges.

We have lots of overlaps and have shared contacts to increase our effectiveness by working more closely together.

We were delighted that Monster Confidence were confirmed as visiting the Tees Valley (https://monsterconfidence.co.uk/).

Computer Science & Software Engineering Sub Group were welcomed

Role – Act as point of contact for Software Engineering / Computer Science contacts and information.

Champion – Andrew Simpson, BCS The Chartered Institute for IT

What a great meeting with Seymour’s finding out about how Engineering Together can link into the community work they do and their new exciting Skills Academy.

The UK’s newest skills academy finally opens its doors

We’re a proud partner of the River Tees Rediscovered Landscape Partnership after being invited to their strategy meeting.

Looking forward to working together to promote our outdoor engineering schemes in and around the Tees Valley.

Engineering Together were happy to meet The Start Studio UK to talk about creative learning in the Tees Valley and how it can promote engineering and improve student resilience.

High Tide (https://www.hightidefoundation.co.uk/) are a registered charity about 7 years old who put on lots of different careers events in order to inform young people, mostly under privileged about the opportunities for work along the river.   

Events include river trips, week long cadetships, taking students through the life of a mobile phone from Taiwan to Asda, making port to part trips including international visits to Rotterdam. 

High Tide have engaged members and regularly help with events and go into schools (mock interviews, assemblies, workshops etc).  Sectors include transportation and engineering businesses, retail, finance, law, web design, IT and the Harbour Police.

These overlaps with Engineering Together are looking forward to working more closely in the future.

Our Champions have of course been very busy, and in our September meeting we found about all their good work.

Reminder that ‘many hands make light work’ – volunteers for active participation in any
aspect of what we are doing would be most welcome.

Our handbook was developed and rolled out at our September meeting which has helped form the basis of the website.

Excited to have been asked to outline Engineering Together to the Tees Valley Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).

Lots of contacts made and the alignments with the Tees Valley strategies were evident.

https://teesvalley-ca.gov.uk/lep/

Exciting times 🙂

Great meetings with Richard McGuckin from Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council and Denise McGuckin from Hartlepool Borough Council.

Looking forward to working together on the Great Exhibition of the Tees Valley (GETV) and other exciting projects.

Paula met with North East Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network (NEAAN).

As with many organisations there are lots of overlaps with STEM and diversity between NEAAN and Engineering Together. 

NEAAN is one of nine in the country, it covers the whole of the North East and every sectors including engineering and construction.

It aims to encourage young people and employers to be on / take on Apprenticeships through employer engagement.

Their Young Ambassadors Network includes 60 Ambassadors over the North East.  Those wanting to become ambassadors are given one day presentation training. 

Apprenticeship Standards aim to provide a framework for all sectors
https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/