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transforming lives through enterprise
www.readyunlimited.com
our visionOur vision is that through their education, young people develop the enterprising and entrepreneurial skills, attitudes and behaviours that are relevant to the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
our missionOur mission is to develop the knowledge, confidence and imagination of educators so they can develop enterprising and entrepreneurial teaching and learning for all young people, from as soon as they start school, and all the way through their education.
“The educators we work with harness enterprise as a vehicle for school improvement, transforming their organisations and the achievement of the young people they work with. We don’t provide a curriculum in a box – instead we support and inspire educators to reflect on and improve their practice and develop their own solutions. Our results show that’s more motivating, successful and sustainable for teachers and learners alike.”Catherine Brentnall, Managing Director, Ready Unlimited
Since establishing our first programme in Rotherham in 2005, our success has seen us grow a movement towards enterprise in education. To date, we have launched programmes or trained teachers in Barnsley, Calderdale, Doncaster, Hull, Lincolnshire, Liverpool, London, Norfolk, North Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Scarborough, Sheffield and Warrington.
• 1,782 teachers trained• 692 trainee teachers trained• 94 businesses involved
working nationally
key milestones:2005 Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council launches Rotherham Ready, a school improvement programme for young people 4-19 years, to develop skills, attitudes and behaviours through enterprising and entrepreneurial learning.
2008 Growing profile and impact leads Rotherham Ready to deliver programmes across Yorkshire and the Humber.
2010 Rotherham named ‘Most Enterprising Place in Britain’ for developing an Enterprise Pathway in the town.
2011 In response to growing national interest Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council establish ‘Are You Ready?’ to deliver programmes across England.
2012 Selected by Nesta to receive support to scale up and increase impact.
2013 ‘Spin out’ from Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council - Ready Unlimited launches as an independent social enterprise to fulfil the ambition of creating a culture of enterprise in education across the UK.
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ready unlimitedReady Unlimited is a not-for-profit social enterprise grown out of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council’s award winning school improvement programme, Rotherham Ready.
We exist to transform the life and work chances of young people by enabling educators and other partners to develop enterprising learning that is relevant to the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century.
A growing body of evidence is demonstrating the importance of enterprising and entrepreneurial skills, knowledge and understanding in relation to attitudes towards education and achievement,1 improving the quality of teaching and learning,2 labour market outcomes,3 and developing resilient and capable young people and communities.4
The Ready Unlimited team have extensive experience of working with teachers, lecturers, academics and support staff in primary, secondary and special schools, further education colleges and higher education institutions. We are all passionate about inspiring and supporting educators, business and the wider community to work together to prioritise and strengthen the development of an enterprise culture and high quality practice and provision.
We are passionate about enterprise in education so please get in touch with us if you would like to share your thoughts or have a question.
1 Yorkshire Futures and Hoshin (2007), Understanding and Addressing Key Stage 4 (GCSE) Educational Underachievement in Yorkshire and the Humber.2 SSAT Using business and enterprise to raise attainment: case studies of three outstanding schools3 Employers and Education Task Force (2012), It’s who you meet.4 Hannon et al. (2012) Learning a Living.
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our approachReady Unlimited has created a blueprint for how enterprise and entrepreneurship can be developed and sustained in education and beyond. We have developed a range of support services to help build knowledge, skills and confidence in developing an enterprising education.
Our work includes enterprise in early years, enterprise through the curriculum, developing student led social enterprises, high quality employer engagement, developing effective questioning and reflection through enterprise, and enterprising family learning.
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“Enterprise to Ready Unlimited is both a
way of transforming outcomes for young
people and a clear progression route – and
that’s a unique selling point. No-one else has
pulled it together so completely.”
Rachel Booth, Director, Retford Post-16 Centre
empowering young people
Enabling young people to influence and co-produce the provision of an enterprising
education
providing tools
Offering ideas, guidance and an Impact Evaluation Framework to develop effective practice and
pathways to the National Standard for Enterprise
Education
establishing an enterprise
pedagogyEmbedding an enterprise entitlement and The Big
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developing educatorsRaising the knowledge, skills and confidence
of teachers
influencing policy and
practiceInspiring champions to effect structural change
across the UK
connecting with the local community
Including parents, peers and the community within
enterprising activities engaging with
businessEnabling educators to
link-up with businesses, employers and entrepreneurs
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Rapid globalisation and shifts in technology, the economy and employment patterns mean that young people face increasingly complex and unpredictable working lives.
The transformation of the economy, from an age of industry to an age of knowledge, creativity and enterprise has significant economic implications.
Now, much low and medium skilled work is being outsourced or automated and the competition for highly skilled work is on an international scale. The global economic crisis and recession have compounded these problems, and as unemployment spread across the UK, young people have been disproportionately hit. There are more young people unemployed than any other group.
1 in 5 young people aged 16-24 are unemployed.1
The vast majority of businesses in the UK’s private sector employ less than 10 people and many are sole traders. This trend is expected to increase further in the future. In many areas the biggest employer has traditionally been the public sector but short-term austerity measures and long-term funding trends mean that many jobs have been shed and further contractions are likely.
The truth for most young people coming through education now, is that if they want to have a job in the future, they will have to demonstrate skills, ingenuity and flexibility. This applies whether they want to establish their own business, work for a private company or enter the rapidly changing public services or ever-evolving not-for-profit sector.
the changing world of work
1 Figures published in September 2013 show a 21% youth unemployment rate, http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/sn05871
“The world has, and is continuing to change rapidly, and young people need to be better prepared for the
opportunities and challenges
they are going to face once they
leave school. As a businessman I
know what it takes to be successful; children need the
chance to develop lateral thinking,
partnership working, risk-
taking and creativity.”
Carl Hopkins, Entrepreneur and Channel 4 ‘The Secret Millionaire’
“To cultivate creative and
entrepreneurial talents is
much more than adding an
entrepreneurship course to the
curriculum. It requires a
paradigm shift – from employee
oriented education to
entrepreneurship oriented
education, from prescribing
children’s education to
supporting their learning.”
Professor Yong Zhao, Author of ‘World Class Learners: Educating
creative and entrepreneurial students’ (2012)
Dinnington Colliery in Rotherham, 1930’s Dinnington Business Park in Rotherham, present day
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ready for the futureReady Unlimited believe that enterprise and entrepreneurship are the most effective vehicles through which young people can be prepared to maximise their potential in both their working and social lives. A growing body of evidence from leading education organisations backs our trust in the power of enterprise.
Ofsted recognise that preparing young people for the challenges of the future workplace is a key element of a 21st century education. Inspectors are advised only to give an outstanding judgement where they see evidence that learners are responsible and curious, are well equipped for the next stage of their education, training or employment, and have the skills and attitudes to participate fully and positively in modern Britain.6
The Young Foundation has collated a range of evidence7 from psychologists, academics and projects that showed that developing young people’s psychological capital is crucial for positive outcomes in learning and life. Evidence from Ofsted reinforces this, showing that schools that narrow the gap and improve outcomes for all learners focus on pupils’ personal development, independence and self-confidence.8
Research by Hoshin9 into persistent educational underachievement in Yorkshire and the Humber found that young people’s perception of the labour market was a critical factor in their motivation. Not knowing ‘what’s out there’ and not being able to connect learning to economic success is detrimental to young people’s academic achievement.
6 Ofsted (2013), School Inspection Handbook. 7 The Young Foundation (2012) An outcomes framework for young people’s services.8 Ofsted (2008) White boys from low-income backgrounds: good practice in schools.9 Yorkshire Futures and Hoshin (2007) Understanding and Addressing Key Stage 4 (GCSE) Educational Underachievement in Yorkshire and the Humber.
To support young people to be ready for
the future, Ready Unlimited offer a range of support
services to educators, and other organisations working with young people, to encourage and embed the use of enterprise in building
young people’s knowledge, experiences, skills and
attitudes.Dearne Valley College students learn about enterprise and set up their own computer business
Miners in Rotherham in the 1940’s
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“Too many people leave school thinking
they are stupid. They’re not stupid, they simply never got a chance to
find out what they were good at.”
Sir Ken Robinson
our vision of young people leading rewarding and fulfilling lives
Love for lifelong learning
Enterprising skills,
attitudes and behaviours
Better connected to the world of work and
business
Financially self-reliant Making
their own opportunities
More highly
qualified
Sense of belonging and
purpose in their
community
Ente
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rising young people
leading rewarding and fulfil
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ives
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“Staff and children have been inspired by enterprise because it gives context and purpose to learning. There has been a positive impact on confidence, motivation and enjoyment of teaching.” Denise Popplewell, Head Teacher, Tealby School
“It has changed the way I think about and plan learning. I hadn’t thought about enterprise as an approach to curriculum design, but it is really effective. It has made me a more enterprising teacher and a more enterprising person.” Sarah Pitt, Secondary Teacher, Wayland Academy
“Enterprise has helped cement the changes I have been making to improve school. Some children lacked drive, motivation and leadership and this programme has been perfect for addressing this.”Claire Fisher, Head Teacher, Hayfield Primary School, Derbyshire Ready
working with educatorsReady Unlimited focusses on developing the skills, capabilities and imagination of teachers and other education professionals so that they are able to design learning opportunities that challenge and motivate young people to succeed through enterprise.
We take this approach because we recognise that teachers are best placed to understand and respond to the needs of their own pupils and their own community. We also realise that by building educators’ capacity we are equipping them to sustain and strengthen enterprise-learning opportunities long after the input of Ready Unlimited.
The long-term multiplier effect of working with educators has helped to ensure that Ready Unlimited has already affected the practice of hundreds of teachers, who in turn have inspired greater enterprise knowledge and skills in thousands of young people.
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Increases in achievement
and attainment
Improvements in pupils’
attendance and behaviour
High quality
education-business
partnerships
school improvementTeaching and learning is the core business of schools, and developing teacher effectiveness1 and a rich and relevant curriculum,2 are crucial elements in how Head Teachers achieve success.
Harnessing enterprise as a vehicle for learning offers an effective way of developing teachers’ capacity, imagination and skills to design a curriculum and culture that challenges and motivates children and young people to succeed.3
School and college leaders tell us that working with Ready Unlimited to develop enterprise in education has delivered a wide range of benefits in relation to teaching practice and culture, as well as the engagement and achievement of young people.
Effective collaborations
within and between schools
Better quality
teaching and learning
1 Ofsted (2012) Getting to good. 2 Ofsted (2013) School Inspection Handbook. 3 SSAT Using business and enterprise to raise attainment: case studies of three outstanding schools.
More engaged, motivated
and reflective teachers
More meaningful
relationships between the
school, parents and the wider community
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Pupils
plan ethical clothing ventures
Pupils record their enterprise learning
“I used to want to leave school and play on my play station. Now, in five years time, I want to run my own business in horticulture.”Re-engaged Year 10 learner
“He’s letting us do it ourselves, that’s how he’s teaching us. It’s like freedom.”Year 9 pupil
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Pupils make and sell jewellery
Pupils develop their own businesses
enterprise in actionWe have extensive practical examples of how we have supported and inspired teachers to effectively develop enterprise through and beyond the curriculum. Here is a selection of enterprise learning opportunities developed by practitioners involved in our programmes.
Special school students
worked with professional filmmakers to document a large-scale talent show.
They used industry standard filming and editing equipment
and generated income by selling DVDs of the event
to students and families.
l ights, camera, actionInfant
school children read ‘The Emperor’s New
Clothes’ and used the fable as a springboard to plan their own ethical clothing company. They
‘pitched’ their ideas to a panel of peer judges. Through the process they learned about ethical clothes
production, current and past designers, accounting and
presentation skills.
emperor’s new clothes
Secondary school geography
pupils learning about street sellers in developing
countries were set the challenge of making money from nothing. They created their own businesses, from selling hand massages, to making bookmarks from recycled materials
and developed their enterprise skills by planning and organising a ‘street
market.’
street market
Pupils worked with
the marketing team from a local football
club to learn about the design and manufacture
of sports wear, before creating their own
designs.
sports kit
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“Linking with employers and entrepreneurs is an excellent way for our students to see how their skills and interests transfer into the world of work and business. Students take responsibility, make things happen and build in confidence and capability.” Russell Heritage, Head Teacher, Wingfield Academy
“Enterprise has transformed how children relate to learning, and how we engage parents, the wider community and the world of work and business.”Lynne Pepper, Head Teacher, Herringthorpe Infants School
connecting with businessA key element of the Ready Unlimited approach is to encourage educators to secure the involvement of individuals from business and the community and bridge the gap between education and the world of work. By establishing contacts from beyond the school boundaries it brings important real life context and relevance to learning experiences. It connects young people with local role models and enterprising networks. We have a range of employer engagement models and curriculum project ideas that teachers can use to build partnerships with business and the wider community.
Make £5 Blossom – a business provides a class of pupils with a £150 loan and mentoring to help them launch their own ventures in school. Once the loan is repaid, any resulting profits can be distributed for the benefit of the school or community as agreed by the pupils.
Young Entrepreneurs Clubs – a business mentor works with a smaller group of students over a longer period of time providing advice and guidance to support their enterprise ventures.
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“It’s changed what we
talk about. It’s given us
a basis for knowing
more and talking
more about enterprise.”
Parent involved in ‘The Family
Money Tree’
Ofsted recognise
the importance of establishing links
with business, the local community and other external organisations to improve the quality of education, extend the curriculum and increase
the range and quality of learning opportunities
for pupils.1
The Ready Unlimited approach also seeks to maximise opportunities to engage family members and peers, reaching out beyond the confines of the classroom to involve the wider community in learning through enterprise and entrepreneurship.
We have created The Family Money Tree, an enterprising family learning programme that improves key literacy and numeracy skills, as well as developing enterprise capability through venture-based learning. Building confidence and skills through the course has transformed parents’ views and actions on returning to work and setting up in business, as well as the conversations they have with their children about work and self-employment.
School leaders tell us how enterprise has been a powerful vehicle for engaging parents and the wider community. Herringthorpe Infants School has seen a 600% increase in its after school family learning events when it gives them an enterprise twist.
Recent ethnographic research into our work by Esro Ltd showed that enterprise in education was having a ‘far reaching’2 effect, impacting on family members, friends and peers and encouraging their thinking and behaviour to become more confident and entrepreneurial.
1 Ofsted (2013) School Inspection Handbook2 Esro Ltd (2013) ‘Are we ready?’ An enterprise education for an enterprise
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making wavesWe have come a long way since 2005 and the launch of our first programme, Rotherham Ready. We are proud of the strong reputation we have gained and our proven track record in transforming what educators think and do.
An independent evaluation1 of the first four years of Rotherham Ready noted our impact on school culture and the curriculum. Using the Cabinet Office framework for ‘culture change’, evaluators found we were successfully
changing the behaviour of teachers and Head Teachers and hailed
the programme more of a ‘movement’ than a
project.
Rotherham was crowned as ‘The Most Enterprising Place in Britain’ in 2010. We contributed to this by demonstrating
how creating a culture of enterprise
in education was transforming young
people’s attitudes to learning and life and raising
achievement and attainment in schools.
Given our strong performance we have experienced year on year growth in the uptake of our programmes and we have extended our reach with educational organisations and partners across the country.
Ready Unlimited has also garnered international acclaim for our work with teachers, business leaders and academics from as far away as Finland, Lithuania, Spain and Japan visiting us to learn about our approach.
1 MTL (2009) Rotherham Ready Evaluation2 Ofsted (2008) Ofsted Survey Inspection: Evaluation of Rotherham Ready Enterprise Initiative
“The team at Ready Unlimited really understand how to embed enterprise and entrepreneurship in education and they offer an excellent range of services to support and empower teachers to design enterprise learning that will inspire pupils to succeed. The results speak for themselves.” Carl Hopkins, Entrepreneur and Channel 4 ‘The Secret Millionaire’
“An enterprising education is key to developing a ‘can do’ culture in education and beyond. Young people’s attitudes towards learning and life are being transformed and the work that started, and continues, here in Rotherham is internationally known for its innovation and impact.”Karen Borthwick, Head of School Effectiveness, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
“The approach has had such an impact that it is shaping the curriculum and it will shape the future of Britain. Enterprise has been used as a legitimate learning tool so pupils can be creative and use their own initiative. It has put the borough at the forefront of teaching on a global scale by enabling students to bridge the gap between business and education.”John Healey, MP for Wentworth and Dearne
Ofsted have evaluated our
approaches:2
They praised how we inspired teachers and school leaders to prioritise enterprise.
They identified that our high quality training and resources enabled teachers to view enterprise as integral to school improvement. They recognised the impact our work was having on young people and highlighted that teachers
involved in our programmes were developing good and outstanding learning that was
leading to young people who were confident and enthused.
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sharing & influencingTo complement our programmes of work with schools, we contribute to the broader debate about education.
We provide evidence from our work and research about the need for and impact of enterprise learning on young people, teachers, schools and communities. We link with national and international organisations, policy makers and researchers to share our learning and experiences. We welcome feedback and discussion. If you would like to know more or feel you could contribute, please get in touch.
measuring impactWe are committed to demonstrating the impact that enterprise and entrepreneurship in education has on leaders, practitioners and learners.
To enable us to capture and measure our impact, we are working collaboratively with a range of research institutions that scrutinise our programmes, tools and training and help us develop our approach to impact measurement. These include Warwick University’s Centre for Education and Industry (CEI), Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and The University of Sheffield.
We have developed, and are continuing to refine, an online ‘Impact Evaluation Framework’ to enable us to capture a holistic picture of what is happening within the schools with whom we work. We use the data to triangulate evidence from leadership, practitioner and learner perspectives, identify clear development points and reflect on links between action and outcome. This is an exciting on-going project that provides real potential for progressing learning about the development and impact of enterprise education. Our partners, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, will be issuing a report examining the effectiveness of the Impact Evaluation Framework tool by early 2014.
Image: Prince Andrew talks to students from St Mary’s Catholic Primary School about how they integrate entrepreneurial learning across the curriculum for children as young as four years old
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scaling changeReady Unlimited are developing a whole system approach to creating a culture of enterprise in education and beyond.
We have been supported by Nesta, the UK’s innovation charity, and the Local Government Association to prototype a community based enterprise model to impact on schools, businesses, parents and the wider community. This model, called Ready Hubs, has enormous potential for communities to sustain and scale enterprise practice and provision.
Our learning partners, The University of Sheffield, have compiled a process evaluation to capture the journey of Ready Hubs in their prototype year. Please get in touch if you want to explore how Ready Hubs can transform the involvement in enterprise of young people, educators and communities.
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transforming lives through
enterpriseReady Unlimited’s success stories
demonstrate how embedding enterprise in education can
deliver positive change.
Improvements in pupils’
attendance, behaviour and achievement
High quality
education-business
partnerships
More enterprising
young people and
communities
More meaningful
relationships between schools,
parents and the wider
community
Greater work and
career prospects
More engaged, motivated
and reflective teachers
A sense of belonging
and purpose
Better quality
teaching and learning
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Phone: 01709 380906Email: [email protected]
Rockingham Professional Development Centre, Roughwood Road, Rotherham, S61 4HYReady Unlimited, a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with company number 8058981, VAT registration number 158881756.
