Hi Essex,

We’ll be discussing just this topic at the next GEM London Twilight event at the V&A tomorrow evening if anyone is free and wants to come along.

GEM London

What is our role in helping young people into employment?

Victoria and Albert Museum, Learning Centre, Seminar Room 1

Friday 3^rd October

18.30 - 20.00

£5 for GEM members, £15 for non-members

With over 15% of 16-24 year olds currently unemployed, how can museums help young people improve their chances of getting paid employment? Is it our role? Does it only fall on the museum educator to offer opportunities? What sort of opportunities do we / could we offer? What practical things can we do? In this twilight session we’ll hear from learning practitioners from three organisations who will share their experiences, plus a chance to take part in group discussions and hear about the latest findings. There will also be drinks and networking after the presentations.

Speakers will include:

Rose Cronin, Young People's Programmes Assistant and NEET Project Coordinator National Portrait Gallery, will talk about developing a toolkit for engaging NEET young people through practical photography, creating sustainable progression routes for young people.

A member from London Transport Museum’s Learning Department, will explain the Young People’s Skills programme, and how it engages young people to explore different pathways of work, cultivating key skills relevant to employers and developing a proactive attitude towards their future careers.

David Judd from the V&A, Creative Projects Manager for Learning, will cover the career focused social inclusion work and workshops run for young people at the V&A, including ‘Making it: Careers in Art and Design’ an annual event of talks, taster workshops and advice, for 16-24 years olds interested in the creative industries.

The V&A is open till 22.00 on Fridays, to find out what else is on that evening at the museum http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/events/day/20141003/

For directions of how to get to the Learning Centre please go to http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/e/education-centre/

To book please go to http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gem-london-what-is-our-role-in-helping-young-people-into-employment-tickets-13197681621

Best wishes

Jenny

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Subject: pre-employment skills

This news article, on today's BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29454002) prompts me to ask this question:

Is your museum delivering sessions which develop pre-employment skills amongst young adults? Confidence-building, teamwork, speaking publicly etc.

I'm not talking about pre-employment skills in preparation for working in the museum sector. General pre-employment skills.

I'd be very interested to hear from those museums who do. I'd be equally interested to hear from anyone who thinks this is too wide of the mark for what a museum actually is.

I'll collate results and share. Please tell me to anonymise the info if you so wish.

My view, before I see any feedback, is that museums (of all types) could be missing a trick in not thinking how they could utilise their collections to help local schools and colleges develop pre-employment skills. There is even potential funding to start it off. But let's see what comes from this general appeal to you lovely Gemmers....

Essex Havard

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