Right to Read
Employees take part in "Right to Read". This is a national campaign to promote improving literacy at Key Stage 2.
Enterprise Days
The programme seeks to recruit company employees to support childrens' reading activities. Employees become a 'volunteer reading partner' and spend one hour per week listening to and reading with primary school children. The satisfaction gained by the employees and the improvement in the childrens' reading activities demonstrates what a positive impact this campaign is having on the local community.
Mentoring
A training day that puts approx 200 pupils working in groups of 10 through 4 exercises.
The day focuses on enterprise and key employability skills such as the ability to communicate, present and work to deadlines.
E-volve
This involves members of staff giving up their time to visit local schools and conduct 1 to 1 sessions with pupils.
The objective is to offer help and guidance to pupils in their final year.
Skills Plus Launches
This involves mentoring with children of primary school age via e-mail.
There are currently 8 Key Personnel Group employees who are involved in this initiative.
Adopt a School
The HR Manager of Key Personnel Group delivers a speech to a year group of students to cover what skills employers look for in their staff.
The time is also used to stress how attending school and being punctual is good training for working life.
Key Personnel, Key Personnel Group's sister company, has adopted Fairham Community College in Clifton.
This will involve running a number of events including a careers fair in the next academic year.