Once again, in partnership with Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Creative & Cultural Skills (CCSkills), Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) is delighted to deliver Creative Careers Week 2022.
This year, Creative Careers Week 2022 will run from 21-25 November, with 3 key aims and 4 main strands of activity. We very much hope your organisation can get involved in any of the strands. To register your interest, complete this FORM and read on to find out more about the programme.

Aims
1. Raise awareness among young people, educators, parents/carers and careers’ influencers of the breadth of roles and range of pathways available within the creative and cultural industries
2. Inspire young people to consider a career in the creative and cultural industries while highlighting the breadth of roles and range of pathways available
3. Encourage and support employers across the creative and cultural industries to engage with young people and education through Creative Careers Week 2022. 

To celebrate a year since COP26 took place in Glasgow, My Climate Path is promoting a two-part campaign for the public, schools and businesses to get involved in.

The aim of our Climate Campaign is to inform and raise awareness of the green skills agenda, highlight the environmental credentials of our Climate Hero businesses, and celebrate all the activity which My Climate Path has completed so far.
                                                                                      
As part of the campaign, My Climate Path is hosting a Climate Trail around Glasgow city centre. Glasgow's Climate Trail is a fun, interactive scavenger hunt which will lead young people and business professionals around the city’s most sustainable and circular locations via an app called 'ActionBound'.

The campaign also aims to celebrate everyone's journey to becoming more environmentally cautious by encouraging everybody to share on social media what they have been doing for climate change since COP26 using #MyClimatePath.

Find out how you can get involved

We won bronze!

Our My Climate Path, COP26 educational legacy project won in the Education Excellence category at this years Global Good Awards!

We are so proud to be part of the amazing #COP26 education legacy initiative!

Well done to everyone involved in this project, including our ClimateHeroes!

This month we hosted, in partnership with Howden, a Teacher Insight Day at their factory in Renfrew. Teachers from schools around the West Region were invited along for talks and tours of the facility.

Thank you to all of the teachers who came along & everyone at Howden who helped to organise and run the event!

If your company is interested in hosting a teacher insight day with us please get in touch with us at info@dywwest.co.uk

Last week we attended the launch event of an exciting new Business Networking Group at Dumbarton Football Stadium, put together by Dumbarton Football Club, Dunbartonshire Chamber of Commerce and Rock You Events.

The Dumbarton Loves Local Business Club is free to all businesses and will take place on a monthly basis at Dumbarton Football Club. Under the Loves Local banner the aim of the event is to bring local businesses together to connect, share, support and build relationships and encourage members to #ChooseLocal.

The next event will be taking place on Thursday 27th October.

Once again, in partnership with Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Creative & Cultural Skills (CCSkills), Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) is delighted to deliver Creative Careers Week 2022.

This year, Creative Careers Week 2022 will run from 21-25 November, with 3 key aims and 4 main strands of activity. We very much hope your organisation can get involved in any of the strands. To register your interest, complete this FORM and read on to find out more about the programme.

Aims
1. Raise awareness among young people, educators, parents/carers and careers’ influencers of the breadth of roles and range of pathways available within the creative and cultural industries
2. Inspire young people to consider a career in the creative and cultural industries while highlighting the breadth of roles and range of pathways available
3. Encourage and support employers across the creative and cultural industries to engage with young people and education through Creative Careers Week 2022

Could you #ShareAnHour a week to mentor a young person and support them to find and grow their talents?

Scottish mentoring charity MCR Pathways are looking for mentors across Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire. At MCR Pathways, we believe that a young person's future should be determined by their talents and never their circumstances. Our award-winning programme carefully matches young people with a mentor to meet for just one hour a week, in school. This one to one relationship makes a profound impact on young people's confidence and future, as well as being beneficial for employees and businesses supporting mentoring.
 
All steps to becoming a mentor can be done online and full training is provided. No qualifications are needed, just the desire to make a difference.

For more information, please visit: MCR Pathways or email nicola.smith@mcrpathways.org with any questions.
 

Mentoring a young person can not only have a life-changing impact for the individual but is also an invaluable way for young people to develop the skills, confidence and aspirations they need for their future success.
 
Whether you want to make a difference to the lives of young people or develop your own interpersonal skills, mentoring a young person provides individuals and employers with an opportunity to take a lead role in inspiring, encouraging and shaping the future workforce.

Join DYW, Career Ready UK and MCR Pathways to find out more about the benefits of mentoring and the opportunities for employers to get involved in mentoring young people in Scotland through our free mentoring employer information session on Thursday 27th October from 10am-11am

Register here

Well done to the DYW School Co-ordinators from Inverclyde Council who organised a successful DYW Breakfast held in the Ambitions training restaurant of West College Scotland on the 15th September.

Previous relationships were rejuvenated and lots of new introductions were made over a coffee & pastry with magnificent views over the Clyde.

Thanks to all the employers who supported the event!

S1-S4 students at Mary Russell School in Paisley had a brilliant week with Lauren, Rachel and Findlay from Ashleigh Scotland.

The team were inspiring students about the construction industry, career pathways and conducting STEM activities.
 
Following the successful visit, Ashleigh Scotland have invited the S4 students for a site tour at their Abbey Quarter site in Paisley.

Well done to everyone involved!