Our CEO, Sally Melvin, was invited to give a speech at the Mayor’s Symposium for Sustainable Economic Growth today. Sally spoke to a wide audience including Council members, business leaders and representatives from other voluntary sector organisations. The key points of her speech were: Future sustainable economic growth needs to include engaging and motivating ALL…
Katie Davies, Marketing Manager at Costco Bristol visited Ablaze to learn more about our work and see how their kind donation will make a difference to children in Bristol. Costco Warehouse employees voted for Ablaze to receive a grant from United Way UK to support the Reading Buddies programme. The “Give Local” grants are funded…
Ablaze was thrilled to host a visit from Myung Lee, International CEO of Cities of Service, to showcase their business interventions at St George CE Primary School. Ablaze’s work is involved in Bristol’s wider ‘Cities of Service’ input into volunteering across the city. Lloyds Banking Group kindly provide the primary school with weekly Reading Buddies…
As part of the annual two day conference of the Defence Senior Leadership, Rolls Royce held a Leadership Community Event in Bristol on 15th November 2017. This event gave young people from Ablaze schools the opportunity to meet some of Rolls Royce’s senior leaders and to take part in some fun business and STEM related…
Earlier this week, a group of pupils from St Pius X Catholic Primary School wrapped up their writing course with Huw Powell, the Portishead based author of the popular Spacejackers children’s books. Over the course of five sessions, the children learned about different types of writing and genres of stories. There was a real focus…
Mukesh Solanki from Rolls-Royce has been a Reading Buddy at Sefton Park Primary School for many years and he makes a really valuable contribution to supporting pupils with their reading. Here is his recount of a day in the life of a Reading Buddy:- It’s almost a quarter to twelve as we enter the School.…
A mock interview day at Orchard School, supported by Ablaze, proved of huge benefit to students with some even discussing potential work experience placements. Well done to all the students and a huge thank you to our volunteers. The year 10 students attended interviews with employers from various companies including Ernst and Young, Smith &…
Ablaze was honoured recently with the the presentation of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, a prestigious national award, in a special ceremony at Leigh Court, Bristol. The QAVS is the highest award given to voluntary groups across the UK. The ceremony was attended by community leaders including the Lord Lieutenant Mary Prior, who presented…
TLT Solicitors ended the school year with a generous invitation to Oasis Academy Long Cross primary students to visit their city centre offices on 2nd July ’15. Lucy Kirk, the Business Coordinator for the TLT Reading Buddy intervention at Oasis Long Cross Academy, commented: “We really enjoyed having the students visit us in our offices…
DAS Legal Expenses have been supporting Glenfrome Primary School since Ablaze began in 2005 and their involvement goes way beyond the provision of Reading Buddies – the company arranges visits for the students to their DAS offices and it also sponsored an Aardman Animations “Gromit” and “Gorilla” to be installed at the school last year.…