Celebrating Success
Congratulations to Hannah Borthwick, Shaun Scott and Shannon Hamilton who received awards at the Venture Scotland presentation evening last night at the City Chambers. You did Bridges Project proud!
Bridges Project would like to congratulate Hannah Gordon for passing her Open Water Diving Certificate. Well Done!
Congratulations to Callum Harper who recently passed the Driving Theory Test. Well done!
Congratulations to Shaun Scott who has secured a Christmas job in Argos. Well done Shaun. All that interview preparation you did paid off!
Bridges Celebrates Big Lottery Fund Award
Bridges Project is delighted to be awarded with a new grant from the Big Lottery Fund’s Investing in Communities programme to support its Way2Work service over the next five years. Click here to read the full article.
Good News!!
We have been successful in our application for funding to the Fairer East Lothian Fund for our Way2Work support worker. This helps us to continue to provide the employability work which is so essential to helping young people towards jobs and college. Congratulations to all those involved and a big thank you to East Lothian Council.
CONGRATULATIONS TO FAY
Congratulations to Fay Logan who recently completed her Level 1 Principles and Practice in Youth Work Course with East Lothian Council Community Learning and Development and Lothian Association of Youth Clubs. Well done Fay!
Bridges Clients are Scottish Learning Partnership Award Semi-finalists
On Thursday 31 March 2011 a roll call of honour for Learning Awards semi-finalists was held at Pollock Halls in Edinburgh. Among those on that roll call were Hendry Ross and Kyle Storrie – two young men who have made maximum use over the last few years of the opportunities offered at Bridges Project and who have both now moved on to full employment, self-reliance and an adult life as contributors, not only in their own family circles, but also in society.
CROFTON AWARDS
At an awards ceremony in Edinburgh in November the 2010 Crofton Award winner was announced as Bridges Project, based in East Lothian, and supported by Lothians based Fast Forward, a national voluntary organisation which promotes health and well-being through education by, with and for young people.
The judges said that the project fully deserved the Crofton Award for both the standard of their work and the development of the young people during their project the 'Journey of a Cigarette'. The project involved the young people looking at all aspects of tobacco, including farming, marketing, smoking, addiction, role of the media, and the health impacts of tobacco.
The judges also stated that they were particularly pleased to see that this project had increased the confidence and understanding of the young people, given them a sense of pride in their work and achievements, and given them creative and employability skills which they can use in the future.
Link to the Crofton Award article.
