A group of 20 pupils from Bristol Metropolitan Academy took turns at the controls of a light aircraft during a special day of flying lessons at Gloucestershire Airport on Thursday 11 July. The Bristol Met pupils were being rewarded after successfully completing the Airbus Foundation’s Flying Challenge programme, a youth mentoring scheme that has seen…
Talented young poets from primary schools across Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset eloquently expressed their thoughts about travelling – in all its forms – through poetry in poems that are being published in a very special book today. The poems are the winning entries in an annual, city-wide primary school poetry competition run by…
Pupils at St Barnabas CE VC Primary School were lucky enough to get a visit from Bristol poet Miles Chambers thanks to Ablaze. Miles ran a poetry workshop to inspire the pupils to write their own poems. The teachers and children that took part thoroughly enjoyed the workshops, where they worked in groups to create…
Ablaze work closely with many businesses and people who are passionate about raising aspirations and tackling inequality of opportunity for young people. One of these people is Kurtis Reece, a Digital Marketing Executive at National Friendly, who told us why he believes businesses should support local schools. I was born in Bristol during the mid-80s…
Airbus Filton made a huge impact on raising the aspirations of some Henbury Court Primary Academy pupils this morning. The Reading Buddy and Number Partner children were treated to a World Book Day visit to Airbus, to share some reading with their Airbus volunteers and see where they worked. This not only gave them an…
Ablaze is delighted to have been selected by local PR and Communications consultancy Speed as their charity of the year for 2019. Speed will support Ablaze in tackling the inequality of opportunity for young people across the West of England. With a 14-year heritage in PR and communications, Speed is dedicated to championing the importance…
Ablaze is absolutely delighted to announce that West of England Mentoring is a finalist in the National Mentoring Awards 2019! West of England Mentoring (WEM) works with schools and businesses to provide business mentors to students aged 12-16 across the West of England. WEM is run by Ablaze in partnership with Mentoring Plus, Babbasa and Bath Bridge.…
Bristol poet Miles Chambers gave a fantastic series of poetry workshops in Bristol schools organised by Ablaze, thanks to a kind donation by Bristol Airport. The workshops were held to celebrate Ablaze’s fourth poetry competition and to inspire children to pick up their pens and enter the competition. The theme for this year’s poetry competition…
Year 2 pupils from Cabot Primary School were lucky enough to pay a visit to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at MShed, thanks to National Friendly, Bristol Museums and Ablaze. The children enjoyed a fantastic morning exploring the MShed museum (the big bus was very popular!) and getting a guided tour of the…
Bristol poet Miles Chambers is giving a series of workshops in local Primary Schools this month to inspire pupils to write poems to enter in the Ablaze annual poetry competition. The first session was at Wrington Primary School. Year 5 pupils spent an hour with Miles learning about poetry, playing games and listening to him…