Ready SET Go

Ready SET Go, an exciting project to encourage more women into non-traditional training and employment. It is important that women have the opportunity to fulfil their potential based on their talents and interests rather than their gender and should be offered the same opportunities to pursue whatever career they chose.

Working with partners the project aimed to encourage more women into non-traditional training and work opportunities by:

developing specialist accredited training sessions to include personal development, confidence building and skills awareness
providing support into further training, work experience and employment
providing diversity training to teachers, educators and advisers to help reduce gender stereotyping in advice and support
working with employers to raise awareness of the potential of recruiting women into non-traditional areas and look at addressing the barriers faced by women entering these sectors.

The Ready SET Go project finished at the end of March 2007, but Chwarae Teg will continue to promote and encourage women to consider opportunities in non-traditional sectors.

The project worked with 313 women, 47 employers and 110 educators.

Over 30 taster training sessions have been run for women, which have included:

Carpentry
Painting & Decorating
PC Building
Basic Electronics
Basic Electrics
Motor Vehicle Maintenance
Digital Photography
Conservation
Changing Your Environment
Burning Ambition - Introduction to the Fire Service

At the end of the project the women who had participated on the taster courses were tracked and from the 70 completed forms that were returned, over 45% had gone onto further training courses and 15% into employment.

For further infomation on the Ready SET Go project and to read some case studies of those involved on the courses please click on the link below.

Ready SET Go newsletter [pdf]
Case Study - Angela carves a new career in carpentry [pdf]
Case Study - Groundbreaking course helps Swansea mum tune into new career [pdf]

If you are exploring the possibility of a change in career or looking for opportunities for training some other useful websites are:
www.careerswales.com
www.learndirect.co.uk

This project was part funded by:

Last Updated: 26/09/2007 11:29:12 By Sian Baird Murray