Engaging with Education

As an employer, you can help inspire and develop our future workforce. This can be achieved by schools and businesses working together to expose young people to the opportunities and pathways available.

Every business can get involved in many ways:

• Careers Event
• Workplace visit
• Employability Skills
• Business Challenge
• Curricular Input

Our in-house Education Team support primary and secondary schools in engaging with local employers and facilitating these activities.

There are many benefits to supporting Ayrshire schools and getting involved in one of the above activities.

• Develop your skills pipeline
• Raise profile in community
• Give something back

You can view a list of activities taking place from now until June 2025 below:

 

• Secondary Requests
  • Auchenharvie Academy S1 – S3 META Skills, flexible with dates and times until June 2025

   

  Primary Requests

  • Forehill Primary Careers Fair- 30th April 1.30pm
  • Dalry Primary World of Work Week 5th – 9th May, flexible with times each day
  • Garnock Primary World of Work Week 12th – 16th May, flexible with times each day
  • Blacklands Primary Careers Event – 15th May
  • Marr College P6 Transition Event- 23rd May 9.30am-12pm

Staff development tool

• Put young people at the heart of your workforce
• Inspire the younger generation into your sector
• Promote your opportunities and routes/pathways into the sector

For further information on each of these opportunities, download our Employer Engagement Guide.

To get involved or discuss what type of engagement would suit your business best, please contact the team at engage@ayrshire-chamber.org or on 01292 678666.