Tomorrow’s People are taking referrals for their next Working It Out course that starts this month. The Working It Out course supports unemployed young people – 16-24 yrs – to gain experience and build skills to enter into further training or employment.
Every course is made up of 14 young people, with the majority of the programme spent working on community challenges. These challenges help build a young person’s employability skills, experience, team-work skills and self-esteem.
The challenges benefit the local community and give an opportunity for young people to be seen doing something positive in their local community.
Recent challenges have included:
- Painting the offices of the MS Therapy Centre, Leith
- Building and maintaining Pilton Community Garden,
- Applying anti-climb paint to roofs of Pilton Equalities Project,
- Conservation work at Hopetoun House and South Queensferry
- Painting the sports area at Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre
- Assisting in the building and maintaining of Cyclone Gipsy Brae Trails Mountain Bike Track
- Landscaping and planting trees as part of the North Edinburgh Grows project
- Painting the visitors centre at Glenkinchie Whiskey Distillery, East Lothian.
The programme runs for 16 weeks – places are limited but young people living in North Edinburgh are prioritised.
For further information telephone 0798 066 9019 or email wio.edinburgh@tomorrows-people.co.uk
