As part of its on-going commitment to the local community, Rabjohns employees are taking an active role in volunteering with Young Enterprise.
With more than 40 years’ experience, Young Enterprise is the UK’s leading business and enterprise education charity. The Young Enterprise Vision is that all young people will have the opportunity to gain personal experience of how business works, understand the role it plays in providing employment and creating prosperity, and be inspired to improve their own prospects, and the competitiveness of the UK.
To help deliver this vision members of the Rabjohns team have been spending time in local schools presenting the Young Enterprise Primary Programme.
Zoe Jones, part of the Advisory and Assurance team, has managed a programme of activity at Warndon Primary School with Year 6 pupils entitled ‘Our Nation’. This included one-hour lessons teaching pupils about all aspects of business ranging from manufacturing of goods, supply chains and marketing to applying for jobs.
Zoe has also been a company advisor at The Alice Ottley School for the 6th form Company Programme, where pupils set up a company and run it over the year.
Rebecca Marshall, Managing Director and Pete Grayer, IT Director both volunteered in teaching a series of one-hour lessons at Fairfield Primary School. Rebecca presented "Our Families" to Year 3 pupils whilst Pete presented "Our City" to Year 5 pupils.
"Our Families" looked at what is a family, what work family members do, the difference between needs and wants, where families go to get things they need and want, how families get the money to buy what they need and want and the choices one has to make when considering how to spend a limited family budget.
“Our City” aimed to give children a greater understanding of what the city they live in means to them. It taught, mainly through discussion and fun, that a City is located where it is for a reason, that the City is used for all sorts of different things, some of us live in it, some of us work or go to school in it and some of us go to play in it. It also aimed to show that a City as a whole is made up of many constituent parts, all of which come together to make the city what it is. Thre children learned how a city grows, who is responsible for the growth of the city and how they have a part to play in the daily life of our city as visitors, shoppers, workers or dwellers. As part of the learning process they built a cardboard city, carefully deciding upon the layout as it grew, opening a restaurant in the city, choosing target clients and how to get them into the restaurant as well as compiling a local newspaper with journalists, photographers and editors.
