The Green Skills Programme

The Green Futures programme is funded by the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority (WEMCA) as part of their Green Futures Project Green Futures Project – West of England Combined Authority. This year the programme will serve 225 young people across 15 schools in Bristol, Bath & North East Somerset, and South Gloucestershire.

For young people: two exciting days of skills building, employability activities and employer-led workshops – one in school and one in the workplace.

For employers: training workshops and/or one-to-one support to develop engaging and inspiring workshops, activities, and experiences of the workplace.

100% of employers who attended our training session said they were “more confident to promote pathways into my profession/industry.

Green Skills - for Schools

Green Skills builds on our successful Green Futures programme. It offers two exciting days of skills building and employability activities and employer-led workshops – one in school and one in the workplace. It will also include a green careers fair for parent/carers to attend with their children.

The programme will equip young people with the information, skills, and knowledge required to access the huge range of ‘green’ jobs that will be available to them in the future.

Activity 1

Employability day in school including:

 

  • Introduction to ‘green’ jobs and skills
  • Green skills-focused employability
    session
  • Green employer workshop
  • Green industry-related activity.

Activity 2

Experience of the green workplace including:

  • Workplace tour
  • ‘Meet the employees’ session
  • Peer and employer-led mock interviews
  • and/or additional industry-related
    activity.

Green Careers Fair

For participants and their parents & carers

Green Skills – for Employers

ARE YOU A *GREEN EMPLOYER* OR DO YOU NEED *GREEN SKILLS* IN YOUR INDUSTRY?

Don’t know where to start with engaging young people? WE CAN HELP!

We are actively seeking green employers who are new to delivering experiences of the workplace to young people. We can support with free advice on how to engage young people in your workplace and industry. Please contact Emily Bailey for more details.

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“I thought both the Green Futures and Green Skills programmes were well devised and delivered.

I felt supported to meet the needs of the group and the aims of the programme.”

Facts and figures

  • World Skills UK 2022 Report
    “…demonstrates a stark disconnect between increasing employer demand for green skills, and young people’s lack of knowledge.”
  • 59% of employers said they need green skills now or will in the future.
  • 67% of those have struggled to recruit staff with the right skills.

Feedback

We’ve typically done the default ‘shadow this person’ type work experience. After attending the session I came away inspired; I’d never really put much thought into how boring it must be for students who attend!

This year we have worked with different departments to create a ‘timetable’ for the students, and each department has a different task that they will assign to the student. For example, this year we have one student who has said that they have an interest in marketing, so they will be having some bitesize introduction chunks with the marketing team, accompanied by a social media ‘project’ that they can complete. When they are with HR, we are going to do some career mapping and interview exercises, the idea being that they will be as interactive as possible.