Orange Bow -16-24 year old training specialists for the BAME community – 16-24 year old training specialists for the BAME community

Orange Bow CIC

Supporting unemployed young people and adults to gain skills and find employment, to help brighten their future and employment prospects.

What we do

We support young people and adults who are out of employment or from underprivileged communities to learn new skills and gain the confidence to find employment, launch an enterprise or pursue further education. Working in collaboration with the Job Centre, schools, local businesses, and recruiters, we are committed to helping all people to aim for a brighter future.

What we offer
● Pre-employment and Post employment courses
● Traineeships and Practical work experience
● Mentoring
● Counselling

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Our Impact

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guided into full time or part time paid employment

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of learners from BAME backgrounds

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of learners interviewed for jobs they wanted

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of learners went to full time or part time employment, 3 months after completing our courses.

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of learners progressed to further education

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Learner Stories

Nelson is a young man that was referred to us by Active Living Support. He dropped out of college and did not know what do next. With no work tangible work experience and qualifications, he felt he didn’t have many options, but fortunately he enrolled on our Business Essential course in April 2019 and was a given work experience at Money Business TV. Nelson is now in active employment. He is enjoying 30 hours a week role within the world or marketing and advertising at MBTV. “I felt lost before being introduced to Orange Bow” said Nelson. He was also enrolled on an IT user skills apprenticeship on Monday 2nd September. On completing his apprenticeship, he is looking at the option of studying a business degree part time while still working at MBTV.

Nelson

I have learnt camera skills, editing and creative mind. My favourtie project from Orange Bow was Key’s House shoot that we done. I found that more enjoyable because it was like an actual video shoot. We were there for hours behind the scenes and it was a good time. I signed up because Orange Bow was looking for people my age for young creative minds and how they were pushing for us to go to get out there and get more experience for work. I am planning to stay on further at Orange Bow to help out where I can and I am looking for a Media job as well in the near future.

Kyle

My time at Orange Bow was filled with laughter and encouragement. As we journeyed through our course we were delighted to find out about the various job roles that are linked with social media and digital market industry. Everything was planned well, from the structure of the day to the information about the workshops being distributed. We had hands on experience which was invaluable, from being in a sound recording studio and making an actual song, recording our own podcast episodes, and being involved in shooting visual content for YouTube. It was great because the knowledge we were being fed was being applied in reality from production to distribution. Even when it came to the workshop book (which was my least favourite part) we were fully supported with filling those out and provided with a comfortable space to ask any questions we had. I am truly grateful to the whole Orange Bow team and Francesca Kuhanuka.

Clementina

Shanique came to us as she had been finding it very difficult finding a job, despite her best efforts. With minimal qualifications and experience employers would quickly discount her as someone that could add value to an organisation. Having been refereed to us by our partners, Rising Stars Support, she enrolled in our Business Essentials course. Shanique then did a two-week work experience with Afro UK online and due to our support and her hard work Glen at Afro UK online ended up keeping her on for a 16 hour per month contract. Glen said normally “it is hard to find young hard-working people with the soft skills needed for business. Orange Bow did a good job training Shanique.” Shanique will continue her work on a part time basis when she starts a further education course at University in January 2020.