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Friday 09 May 08 |
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Pledge: We will facilitate businesses’ involvement with the local community by supporting education, employment and environmental initiatives.
The group has maintained its focus upon schools and through them with local families, as well as young people, with an emphasis on training and employment.
Partnerships with several local community groups continue to be strengthened. Once again Better Bankside was a leading sponsor of Southwark Playhouse’s ‘Shakespeare for Schools’ season and the Southwark Theatres Education Partnership (STEP) Festival, as well as funding the feasibility work towards a possible new production of the ‘Southwark Mysteries’ in 2010.
The group also supported Bankside Open Spaces Trust’s ‘Gardening for Health’ project, a 'Writing the Archive' project, the Bankside Residents Forum and Southwark Young Pilgrims.
The Corporate Social Responsibility theme group seeks to release the skills and time of local employees in the wider interests of the community. It ran a successful seminar on employee volunteering in June, with a large group of local employees also undertaking a team ‘challenge’ at
Mint
Street
Park in May.
The well-established Christmas project expanded to include a card competition among local schools, with profits from the winning design going to Broadway.
At the end of the year the group ran a successful ‘inquest’ into the needs of local people. In 2007 the group aims to refocus and widen its programme of employee volunteering, working with Volunteer Centre Southwark and the Southwark Education Business Alliance. It will:
- recruit mentors for secondary students in Southwark
- seek two-week work experience placements for secondary students in Southwark
- advertise other volunteering opportunities for businesspeople.
 In 2007 Southwark Playhouse will award the first 'Better Bankside Emerging Director Award' for its 'Shakespeare for Schools' production.
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