Double success with London Youth and Talent Match

Earlier in the year, London Youth invited applications to become their key partners to deliver the Talent Match programme in London. We are delighted to announce that our two partnership applications to London Youth – with Collage Arts and Rinova consortium members for a local delivery partnership in North London and with the Princes Trust for the pan-London Enterprise…

Tagore Centre Project – Employment Opportunity

Working in partnership with The Tagore Centre UK, we have recently secured funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund in England for an exciting new project. A prolific writer, poet, composer, painter and educationalist, Rabindranath Tagore was one of the most versatile literary artists to stem from Twentieth Century India, who had strong connections with Britain. The Tagore…

European Reference Framework Seminar 26th June

On Wednesday 26th June Rinova will be hosting a half-day seminar for all those who are interested in the European dimension of Lifelong Learning. In particular, over the last 18 months, Rinova has participated as a partner in the Leonardo da Vinci project CERF, connected to the the European Reference Framework of Key Competences for Lifelong…

Big Bang website launched

The Big Bang partnership was formed to explore the extent to which mismatches between the ‘culture clash’ of work, school and ‘street’ culture is one factor amongst those that are contributing to long-term youth unemployment across Europe. The partners in the UK are Rinova and 15billion, working with organisations from the Netherlands, Austria, Spain and Iceland. Following the first phase…

Greenmark Accreditation for Rinova

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…

Social Enterprise International Youth Programme

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…

Apprenticeship Tick from Creative Skillset

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…

New Apprenticeships in Fashion

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…

Launch of the European Cultural Learning Network

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…

Activate’s Legacy Website launched

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…