We are delighted to announce that, following our recent inspection visit by GLE, Rinova has been awarded Green Mark. Green Mark is a quality award and certification scheme that works with organisations to improve their environmental practices and improve efficiency – according to The Carbon Trust, UK businesses are paying more than £1.6bn too much…
Since we formed Rinova we have been developing a wide range of innovative programmes with UK and international partners to tackle mass youth unemployment, which continues to grow in London, the UK and across Europe. One such programme is the European Youth Enterprise initiative (EYE-i) – a two-year EU Lifelong Learning Programme that is exploring the way that…
15 organisations in England that were awared the Creative Skillset Tick standard were announced this month – and we are delighted to announce that amongst this group of pioneering organisations are two of the Rinova Consortium members, Collage Arts and Fashion Enter. The announcement was made by Creative Skillset in a special Apprenticeship feature of the ‘Guardian’, which was…
Rinova consortium member Fashion Enter has boosted employment opportunities for young people by increasing its intake of Fashion and Textile Apprenticeships – in partnership with Rinova and the London Borough of Wandsworth. In response to the success of their ‘Made in Britain’ clothing label, Fashion Enter has also teamed up with Creative Skillset to launch the ‘We can…
Between the 9th and the 11th January some thirty arts and cultural learning practitioners and stakeholders came together to launch the European Cultural Learning Network (ECLN) at the Chocolate Factory in Haringey, London. ECLN is in fact a new, three-year Network that has been funded by the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Programme. Led by Collage Arts and…
Metropolitan Housing Partnership and Rinova have completed a project to capture the legacy of Metropolitan’s work in ‘Activate London’, a five-year programme funded by the Big Lottery. The results of this project can be seen on the Activate website. In 2007, BIG gave the go-ahead to a group of social housing providers, led by Peabody, to commence the Activate…
