We were excited to be invited along to the official launch of the Manorview charity and rebrand!

The foundation will harness the company’s resources, skills, and connections to help improve the lives of people affected by poverty. It was great to discuss their future plans and see the new branding.

Join Get The Gen to learn more about the fundamental building blocks to unlock the potential of your youngest generation of colleagues!

Unlocking the full potential of your early years’ workers will be key to sustaining and growing talent within your organisation. This session will look at how we all support our newest colleagues to collectively achieve this!

 Thurs 8th June
 0930-1030

Register here  https://buff.ly/3BYvKxU

Congratulations to one of our Young Person's Guarantee employers RSPB Loch Lomond on winning the DYW award at #W4BA23 and well done to finalists Lomond Radio & Babcock Clyde, who are also YPG employers, all 3 do amazing work with young people in the West Dunbartonshire Council area

The Scottish Government, Public Health Scotland and See Me recently established the ‘Supporting Mentally Healthy Workplaces: National Learning Network for Employers’.

Employers of any size and across the whole of Scotland are invited to join for free.

The network complements the ‘Supporting mentally healthy workplaces’ employer platform, which signposts employers to a wide range of free mental health and wellbeing resources and information.

This webinar will focus on supporting men’s mental health in the workplace, will be held on 15th June 2023, 9.30-11.00 am on MS Teams.

Register here

We’re delighted to support #AFutureinFinance, Scottish Financial Enterprise new initiative to inspire, enable and break stereotypes about working in Scotland’s financial services industry.

Learn more about the campaign here

Whether you’re mentoring young people through work placements, apprenticeships or jobs this free training workshop offers practical insights and guidance to hone the skills required.

During the session you will explore key mentoring skills and tools, including the GROW model, and have an opportunity to practice these skills with guidance and support from an expert facilitator.

You will also receive a detailed guide to mentoring that is packed full of practical hints and tips as well as sources of reference for further self-directed learning.

This workshop is designed for individuals responsible for supporting young people on work placements as well as individuals responsible for managing apprentices or young employees within their organisation

Date: 30th June 
Time: 0930-1200

Click here to register

We had a brilliant day at Renfrewshire Connect, Renfrewshire's annual networking event, at Paisley Lagoon this month.

It was great to meet lots of lovely people and we even managed to attend a few of the brilliant seminars throughout the day.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to speak with us. Here's to next year!

Developing the Young Workforce are celebrating the achievements and resilience of young people across Scotland through the Young People are Great campaign, and we are asking for your support

The campaign aims to:

• Highlight the key achievements and resilience of young people across Scotland
• Raise awareness of the greatness young people bring to any workforce
• Spread good news, success and motivation

We invite you to get involved in this one-day-only campaign, which takes place on Tuesday 6th June 2023

Find out more and how you can get involved

Last month DYW Live launched their new social media accounts!

This online programme facilitates live interactions with employers/industry and learners & teachers.

They offer:

• Inspirational talks
• Lessons on careers, job opportunities & labour market trends
• Support for systematic skills development
• Mentoring and virtual work placements
• Thematic courses and qualifications

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Our 2023 STEM West event will return on 20th-21st November at West College Scotland, Clydebank campus.

This event is there to help to inspire young people to choose STEM subjects at school and have employers showcase early careers in their industry.

If you are an employer who is interested in showcasing your company and/or early careers, with something interactive or hands on for S3-S4 pupils to engage with over the 2 days then please let us know.

Email: info@dywwest.co.uk