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Inspire the next generation of talent to develop digital skills and enable them to prosper in workforces of today and the future.
The BDF Education Packages enables your organisation to sponsor schools and/or colleges across the West Midlands to receive dedicated digital skills workshops, activities and learning provisions.
Whether you would like to support interventions in early years or secondary schools, or engage with 16+ year old students with projects and activities in your business, BDF have numerous options to enable you to do so.
Inspire primary school students with access to interactive workshops and assemblies enabling pupils to get hands on experience of how technology is used across a range of areas including designing and creating toys, digital story-telling, making games with code, coding micro:bits and investigating AI and machine learning.
By contributing £10,000 + VAT you can support over 300 young people in understanding the importance of digital skills and how technology is embedded in everyday life.
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Enrich the employability prospects of secondary school students in considering careers within technology by enabling them to hear about the career journeys of role models in digital jobs through career panel events, connecting directly with digital employers via speed networking events, mastering the art of successful interview techniques through interview practice workshops and gaining direct exposure to how tech companies operate through workplace visits.
By contributing £15,000 + VAT you can support almost 500 young people in gaining exposure to career prospects within the world of technology.
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Support young people in bridging education and employment through providing access to ‘Transition to Work’ and ‘Ideator’ programmes; bespoke programmes that will enable young people to work collaboratively to provide digital solutions to real-world challenges hosted by industry.
By contributing £28,000 + VAT you can support 150 young people to develop employability skills and access valuable work experience through exposure to real working practices and make key employability decisions at an essential career defining stage.
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A combination of package A and B, you can enable a primary school and secondary school with access to the insightful and interactive digital skills workshops, assemblies, career panel events, digital employer speed networking events, interview practice workshops and workplace visits to tech companies.
By contributing £25,000 + VAT you can support over 800 students in gaining knowledge, awareness and experience of using digital skills and careers within technology.
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A combination of package B and C, you can support a secondary school and college/university with access to career panel events, digital employer speed networking events, interview practice workshops, workplace visits to tech companies, the Transition To Work and Ideator programmes.
By contributing £42,000 + VAT you can support over 600 students in identifying career options within the technology sector and defining pathways to make more informed decisions post-education.
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Our full education package will enable you to support young people across all stages of an education journey. Combining all the activities from package A, B and C you’ll be able to support students at primary, secondary and further/ higher education stages.
By contributing £52,000 + VAT you can support over 950 students, from inspiring young minds with how technology is used in everyday life and industries, through to enabling young people to use technology to solve real world challenges.
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By collaborating with Birmingham Digital Futures through the Education Packages you can:
Help close the regions digital skills gap
Your commitment to implementing digital skills activities will inspire and enrich young people to develop vital digital skills, consider careers that use tech and form a pipeline of talent that can prosper in the workforces of tomorrow.
Make an impact through social value
Your investment will provide a platform to showcase your commitment towards social value within the region through the engagement of tangible, real and impactful activities, becoming an attractive employer for future hires that value working for a company that is making a positive difference.
Get involved with ease
We recognise that commitment to social value takes time. This is where BDF plays a pivotal role in managing the process for your organisation. From identifying education establishments within key locations that you can support and delivering digital skills activities directly to young people, through to marketing and promoting the impact your investment makes, BDF’s management can ensure you can make a difference within having to sacrifice your valuable time and resource.
Partner with a Russell Group university
Develop direct links with University of Birmingham to enable and develop collaboration opportunities which can benefit you and your organisation, whether that be through research activities, wanting to supporting shape academic practices or through providing exciting engagement opportunities for talented students.
Access talent for your recruitment needs
Get ahead of the curve and be part of a journey through which you can mould and access talent who can work to their optimum level within your organisation.
Contact the BDF Team to learn more about how you can make a difference to future generations of talent through the Education Packages
Email: hello@digital-futures.network