Work Experience At The Door Holly, who is currently a Year 12 student at Stroud High School, has been doing Work Experience at The Door once a week on Wednesdays since Feburary. Here is what she’s been up to: “I
Josh’s Story
This month’s case study is about a young person who has been with The Door for years. He has struggled find his way in life, but he has always been hard working and doesn’t like being out of work. Over
‘Hope’ for the Future
A few weeks ago we were approached by an old friend of The Door’s who was embarking on a research project for a Masters Degree in Education. She wanted to look at the positive affects that alternative education provided by
New Music Programme for 16-24 yrs NEETS
Get Started with Music I am delighted to inform you that The Prince’s Trust will be running ‘Get Started in Music’ in partnership with The Music Works from 8th-12th June 2015.. The Get Started in Music programme is aimed at
Anne in the News!
After her A-levels didn’t go as well as she had hoped, Anne Townsend decided to take a different route into her chosen career path with the help of South Gloucestershire and Stroud College. Read more: here
FREE money management course
Made of Money provides a non-judgemental, safe, interactive and fun space in which to build up your confidence and skills so that you can manage your financial affairs more effectively. Through a mixture of small group activities and exercises, games
Who is lukewarm?
I recently met with one of Stroud’s parliamentary candidates for the upcoming general election. Impartiality stops me from naming which one! In fact, all those standing in May have connections with us, and it has been an honour and privilege
Thinking about Moving On
One of the statistics we use in Hope Training to measure the impact of the work we do, relates to ‘what happens next?’ for the students. Last academic year 85% of of cohort moved on to further training here or
Donation Changes
Tranzform has changed the types of items that we can and cannot accept as donations for resale in the shop. We are no longer accepting electrical items that need to be plugged in of any size and we are also
Working with Virtual School
The Virtual School has responsibility to oversee the education for all Looked After children in Gloucestershire. After attending their annual conference and speaking with them about mentoring, we were successful in signing a contract to offer a mentor for all