Rathbone's road to success

Chelsea Howarth, Liam Buckley and Josey-Leigh Gallagher

The Rathbone centre in Rochdale is working hard to help youngsters in the borough get back into education and into employment.

Rathbone’s offers a variety of courses and it is a UK-wide voluntary youth sector organisation providing opportunities for young people to transform their life-circumstances by re-engaging with learning, discovering their ability to succeed and achieving progression to further education, training and employment.

Chelsea  Howarth, 17, from Kirkholt, is aiming for a career in business administration and is on Rathbone’s Process to success programme. The scheme aims to support young people to progress further on to college or work by taking those who have been out of education for up to three years and getting them back into the class room. Each individual works with staff to develop a career plan, gain new skills and write a CV.

Josey Leigh Gallagher, 16, from Castleton, is also taking part in the programme, she is hoping to be a nursery nurse and has turned to Rathbone for support in achieving a Level 1 apprenticeship in child care.

Media intern at Rathbones, Liam Buckley said: “I find it inspiring that youngster’s have the ability to overcome difficulties in life and produce a positive outcome. Their drive and determination should be credited more in the media, and I hope to make sure their hard work does not go unnoticed.”

Rathbone’s young people often face some of the greatest challenges in our society. Rathbone’s aim to recognise the potential in every individual young person that they work with and enable them to develop and achieve a plan for learning for a positive future.