1. Booz & Co VP talking about the Blastbeat Corporate Mentoring Initiative.
The Blastbeat Corporate Student Mentoring Initiative
(BCSMI), linking local schools, businesses in communities, providing the interface and a programme that facilitates companies funding and mentoring students, preparing them to join the workforce and become the creative entrepreneurs of tomorrow, today.
2. Paul Gilbert Ast’ Head – Highbury Grove School
The Blastbeat Corporate Student Mentoring Initiative (BCSMI),is linking local schools, businesses & communities, providing the interface and a programme that facilitates companies funding and mentoring students, preparing them to join the workforce and become the creative entrepreneurs of tomorrow, today.
3. Nick Hurd MP Minister for Civil Society
Minister Nick Hurd MP invited local schools and businesses from his constituency Pinner, Northwood, Ruislip, Ichkenham in NorthWest London to attend a presentation of the Blastbeat Changemaker programme. There was a very good attendance and several schools and businesses are now engaged in the programme in his constituency.
Testimonials
“The Coca-Cola Blastbeat Sponsorship was an ideal opportunity for the Coca-Cola brand to enable teenagers to express themselves through music while at the same time encouraging them to gain confidence and experience along the way. Over the five years of our sponsorship we built broad awareness for the Program and were delighted with the results we achieved. The success of the Blastbeat Program is a testament to Robert’s enthusiasm and the dedication of his team and we have no reservations in recommending this Program to any sponsor”.
- Gavin O’Doherty, Marketing Manager, Coca-Cola IRELAND, 2009.
“Blastbeat is unlike other music-in-schools programs because Blastbeat is by youth, for youth. It is their program; adults mentor them, but teens make decisions on all matters from the start, like who does what. Blastbeat has much more credibility among students as being a ticket to a future they could not have previously found a good route towards. It is leadership training through the universal language and enterprise of music.”
- Blastbeat alumnus Charlie Arme, now A+R Manager with B-Unique Records
“Blastbeat has helped our students come within the top 5% in the country. I strongly recommend Blastbeat to head teachers & principles across the UK as it serves a very important part of the work related curriculum and enterprise, which is essential. We have had a lot of support from the Blastbeat personnel”.
- Sue John, Head Teacher of Lampton School in Hounslow, London, July 2009
“The confidence and skills that Blastbeat empowers young people with and the fun and relevant way in which they do so it is highly commendable, and represents a new way of giving those young people a way to engage with the world of business and contribute positively to society.”
-David Lammy MP for Tottenham, Nov 2010
“I would confirm that the programme that Blastbeat offer is extremely high-quality. It is excellent for re-engaging young people who may be at risk of dropping out of education. Robert and his team have worked in some very deprived wards across London, and because Blastbeat reaches out to young people and engages them on their own terms about things that interest them, it channels their enthusiasm in ways that other areas of the curriculum are less able to do. The testimony from the students that have been on the programme is really quite moving – in some cases, it really does seem to have been a life-changing event.”
- Dr Jim Magee, Education Strategy and Improvement Group, Dec 2010
“What’s exciting about Blastbeat is that it teaches all the essentials of business, not in the classroom but in real life … You can see children changing in front of your eyes, you can see them doing something that they enjoy, and you can see our consultants as they work with the children doing something that they enjoy.”
- Richard Verity, Partner & Vice President of Booz and Co., Oct 2010
“I was going down the wrong path … no-one had faith that I would come out of it, but thanks to Blastbeat it’s been like, ‘Alright, you can do this’…”
- Hydro aka Leon Cunningham, St Thomas More School – Won Blastbeat 2008
“I would like to thank you, Blastbeat and particularly Robert for supporting the IAMS students and Soul Fusion this year. It really worked wonders – not just for the Blastbeat students – but also for the whole school in general. The final at the O2 Arena was an amazing experience for all those that attended, and the whole school is still buzzing from it. Talk about legends in the making!”
- Andy Fordham, Head of Music, Islington Arts & Media School
“It has been my main reason for getting up at 7am every day to be at school on time… Blastbeat is the best thing that has ever happened to the school and I wholeheartedly hope that it carries on the good work of teaching kids how to make a step up in life.”
- Dan Goss, CEO of Hi-Fi ESE, Leytonstone School