
We’d like to invite you to give an hour and make a difference to the future career choices that a young person makes.
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Share your career journey and insights with young people in schools and colleges in your local community.
Your unique industry knowledge and experience as someone who owns or works for an SME can make a difference to the options a young person considers for their careers.
You could be the person who changes the life of a young person, just by showing them what is possible.
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Benefits to your business
The Give an hour campaign is a great way to give something back to your community and ignite your team at the same time.
It helps give young people in your area the skills and knowledge that they need while also potentially finding new recruits for your business.
By becoming involved, you can shape the future leaders in your community.
I love running CV writing, interview skills and personal brand sessions with young people, it gives me an amazing feeling of giving back and the feedback I get is truly uplifting and invigorating.
Sarah Hopkins Director, Hopkins Longworth Ltd
What can you do in an hour?
It might feel like an hour is too short to have a real impact, but we know from experience that an hour can create new perspectives and inspire new ideas.
You could speak to a class about your sector, play a role in a business competition, carry out a mock interview or support a CV workshop.
Even these short activities make a big difference and can change a young person’s life.
Find out moreGive an hour … change a life
Would you like to be the person that inspires a young person’s future?
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In principle:
- If you are working as a volunteer in a school and the activity with young people is supervised and infrequent (less than 3 times a month), it is unlikely the school will require an enhanced DBS check, but they may still ask for you to complete one.
- If you are volunteering more frequently (3 times or month +) in schools and the work is supervised, an enhanced DBS check may be required.
- If you are working unsupervised and delivering any form of regulated activity to a young person or group of young people, the school will require an enhanced DBS check with a Children Barred list check.
- In all cases it would be down to the individual schools to ensure the safeguarding of the children is acceptable and in line with their safeguarding policy and the statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education.