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Sponsored by: Birmingham Education Partnership
Volunteer and use your business experience to inspire young people
By Mike Pipe, senior enterprise coordinator
An enterprise adviser is a volunteer from business who works closely with the headteacher or senior leadership team of a school or college to provide strategic support. You will use your business experience and professional networks to help develop and implement an effective strategy that puts opportunities with local employers at the heart of a young person's education. Volunteering as an
enterprise adviser can be incredibly rewarding. You’ll be supported by a trained, full- time enterprise coordinator and a range of practical resources to help you in your role. You can also benefit from peer support from other volunteers and broaden your network of contacts further. Our enterprise advisers
come from different industry sectors and professional backgrounds, be that employed, self-employed or recently retired. As an enterprise adviser you can use your unique business experience to inspire young people and prepare them for when they leave education. You’ll gain new skills
working with the senior leadership in a school and use your network to bring the right people together. If this appeals to you, and you are able to give around eight hours of your time a month over one academic year, we’d love to hear from you. With your help, we can
bring the right people together to strengthen our network and put young people's futures first.
If you are interested in becoming an enterprise adviser, please contact Mike Pipe at
Michael.pipe@bep.education.com or call on 07717 316661.
Funding boost for arts centre expansion
Ambitious plans: An artist’s impression of the sensory garden
Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) has been awarded £400,000 towards an ambitious expansion project. The grant has come from Arts Council England’s
National Lottery-funded Small Capital Programme and will go towards the creation of a new purpose-built studio, a sensory garden, reinvigoration of existing spaces, advancements to the digital infrastructure and refurbishment of the MAC’s Café. MAC welcomes more than one-million visitors each
year and connects thousands of people to the arts through its participation, community and outreach work.
Deborah Kermode, chief executive and artistic
director of MAC, said: “This has always been about opening MAC up to even more people.
‘Arts and culture play a vital role in making the area a great place to live’
“We don’t believe art is a passive past-time. We want
people to come here to make, see and do creative things that enrich their lives. “On behalf of our visitors, we would like to thank
Arts Council England for their ongoing support.” Peter Knott, area director for Arts Council England,
said: “Arts and culture play a vital role in making the area a great place to live and we’re pleased to be supporting MAC as it creates new opportunities for artists to develop and audiences to experience creativity in an environmentally-friendly way.”
Careers backstage beckon
The REP Theatre in Birmingham is offering vulnerable young people an opportunity to gain hands-on work experience as part of a new initiative. The ‘Beginning Backstage’ project is a partnership
between the theatre and youth homelessness charity St Basils. Participants will develop specialist and highly-sought after technical skills in all areas of backstage operations. It forms part of the ‘Big Give Christmas Challenge’ – a national initiative which seeks to raise over £13m
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for UK charities. As a result, any donations made to The REP between 3 and 10 December will be doubled. Companies that have already shown their backing
include Pertemps, Hortons Estate, Pinsent Masons and BHSF.
For more information and to show your support contact
rachel.cranny@
birmingham-rep.co.uk or call 0121 245 2163.
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