Join the conversation on our social media channels
The Sheffield Pride of Place Board is calling for businesses to volunteer their time to help elevate the aspirations, attainment and work-readiness of Sheffield’s young people.
The See it Be it campaign is partnering with schools across Sheffield to provide valuable workplace experiences and employer encounters, ensuring every young person can reach their full potential.
Together we can inspire Sheffield’s young people to be tomorrow’s leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators.
Pride of Place and See it Be it are collaborating with 25 schools to provide an enhanced offer of support. All of these have been identified to be in areas of high deprivation and low social mobility or are one of our many brilliant special or alternative provision schools/settings.
We also aim to offer enhanced support to young people in the city who are in care or care experienced - this is in recognition of our responsibilities towards community parenting for this important group.
There will be a wide range of opportunities available across a variety of settings. Whether you or anyone within your organisation can spare half an hour or half a day, there is something so all of us can get involved.
The 25 Pride of Place schools are hosting launch events in their settings, which are a great opportunity to meet students, staff and local businesses around the schools, to find out more about the campaign and what it means to them.
“We know that just four meaningful employer encounters in a young person’s school life can make a massive difference to their aspirations and to what they go on to do later in life.”
Hear Kate Josephs, Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council, share why supporting the See It Be It Campaign is so important.
"I am confident that the See it Be it campaign will inspire and inform a generation of learners across the city and provide them with aspirations for the future” - Tim Roberts, CEO of Henry Boot Plc and Chair of the Pride of Place Board.
Hear more from Jack Kidder, Responsible Business Manager, in the video.
We are asking businesses to volunteer their time to provide meaningful employer encounters. To get involved please pledge your support.
Join us at any of our events to hear from our key partners about why this work is so important, what we aim to achieve, and how you can get involved.
Business in the Community
Aviva
Henry Boot
Mott Macdonald
University of Sheffield
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield Chamber of Commerce
Sheffield City Council
Voluntary Action Sheffield
NHS Integrated care partnership
SADACCA
Alternative Provision (18 settings across the city)
Astrea Academy (secondary mainstream)
Becton - Main Site & Kenwood Academy (special school)
Bents Green School (special school)
Chaucer School (secondary mainstream)
Children in Care and Care Leavers (secondary all settings)
Discovery Academy (special school)
Fir Vale Academy (secondary mainstream
Firth Park Academy (secondary mainstream)
Handsworth Grange (secondary mainstream)
Heritage Park Community School (special school)
Hinde House Secondary phase (secondary mainstream)
Holgate Meadows School (special school)
King Edward VII School (secondary mainstream)
Meadowhead School Academy Trust (secondary mainstream)
Newfield School (secondary mainstream)
Oasis Don Valley (secondary mainstream)
Outwood Academy - City (secondary mainstream)
Parkwood Academy (secondary mainstream)
Seven Hills School (special school)
Sheffield Inclusion Centre (pupil referral unit)
Sheffield Park Academy (secondary mainstream)
Sheffield Springs Academy (secondary mainstream)
Stocksbridge (secondary mainstream)
The Birley Academy (secondary mainstream)
Yewlands Academy (secondary mainstream)
Read the published articles on the Pride of Place - See It Be It Campaign:
UnLTD - Today’s young people are tomorrow’s leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators.
The Yorkshire Post - Henry Boot's commitment to helping young people of Sheffield build careers: Tim Roberts
Businesses Unite to Inspire Next Generation - The Sheffield Star, MSN, Business Link