Two more top flight employers have agreed to lend their support to our Breaking the Mould conference which is designed to help broaden the career horizons of young women.
British Gas and B & Q, two firms with sizeable apprenticeship schemes, have decided to sponsor the event which we hope will attract about 300 schoolgirls and their teachers.
Breaking The Mould has already secured backing from some of the most prestigious companies in the country to help make sure the day will be truly memorable for the girls as well as giving them a glimpse of a whole range of careers that might otherwise have remained hidden from them.
Our major sponsors include NatWest Bank, telecoms group, O2, the Serious Fraud Office, IBM and the Food and Drink Federation. The InterContinental Hotels group is also supporting the event as well as providing the venue of Number One Park Lane.
RBS’s MoneySense for schools programme is the support for our Apprentice Challenge (click here) which has attracted some incredibly impressive entries. The teams of schoolgirl entrepreneurs were asked to devise and cost a game to help teach personal finance in schools.
Together with our resident former Apprentice, Saira Khan (whose blog you can read on our site – click here) and her fellow judge and former Apprentice colleague Tim Campbell, my colleagues and I will on Monday 6th sit down to the terrifyingly hard task of trying to select just four finalists.
Each of the teams has provided a paper proposal together with a short film which allows them to showcase the members of their team and the dynamics of their project. Our finalists will be offered the skills of professional film maker Cathy Hassan to help them present their project in the best possible light for the live final on March 1st.
The audience will consist of conference delegates together with an invited audience including members of the Financial Mail Women’s Forum, senior business executives and representatives from Financial Mail on Sunday’s parent group, Associated Newspapers.
For more information about the conference, click here.
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