Be The Change You Want To See In The World Of Education
By joining the growing band of Blastbeat Changemakers, your business will make a difference to the lives of local young people giving them the opportunity to be part of a dynamic school-based youth empowerment programme that teaches teenagers how to set up and run music and performance-based social enterprises.
Blastbeat Changemakers is:
- An imaginative and exciting opportunity for companies to expand their corporate social responsibility activities in the areas of education and enterprise.
- An innovative funding model linking local businesses and school.
- A flexible approach to sponsorship:
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- you chose how many schools you want to sponsor
- smaller operations can form a consortium to sponsor just one school
- you select your schools, for example you can run blastbeat in a school where many of your staff have children or in a local school which you know is particularly in need of a fresh initiative to motivate the pupils
- you can either sponsor the full programme in a secondary school or a scaled down primary school version
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- An opportunity for company staff to mentor ‚ 6 one-hour visits over a 3-month period per school.
- Corporate mentors guide students in basic business skills such as business plans, cash-flows, sales, marketing & PR, event organisation and creative entrepreneurship, as well as important life skills such as team work and decision making.
Blastbeat and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Through enabling the Blastbeat programme to run in local schools your company will make a significant contribution to your local community.
- Your company will have hands-on involvement through your employees volunteering in these schools.
- Your help will directly benefit young people in your community by:
- Teaching them entrepreneurial business skills
- Teaching them discipline, structure and initiative, all of which matter in the classroom and are likely to positively affect academic success
- Encouraging young, local, original songwriters and musicians
- Empowering teenagers to help bring about change in their communities, as they donate 25% of their company profits to a local good cause
- Passing on the knowledge and experience of your volunteer mentors
Naturally there are benefits for Blastbeat Changemakers as well:
- Your company will be seen as socially responsible and recognised as giving something back to the community.
- Involvement in local schools can heighten your public profile and positively affect perceptions.
- Blastbeat Changemakers can help strengthen relationships with your local customers and suppliers.
- Involvement with local community programmes makes staff feel theirs is a good company to work for‚ which can bring about many HR benefits such as better staff engagement and motivation.
- Blastbeat fits perfectly with the Big Society concept, empowering local people to bring about change for good in their communities.
Blastbeat’s approach to Sponsorship
- We do not have a ‘one size fits all’, approach to sponsorship
- We prefer to meet with potential sponsors, understand your business and explain Blastbeat in more detail
- Together, we will then develop a sponsorship package which fits with your business.
For full information, please download our Blastbeat Changemakers Brochure
If you are interested in becoming a Blastbeat Changemaker, please contact us at: info@blastbeat.org