At Rinova we have always believed that there is ‘something intrinsic’ – and something particularly effective – about the way that the arts motivates learning in those who have been alienated or excluded by more traditional education. We were therefore delighted to win a new, exciting international development project – ARCO – to explore this further, which we kicked…
On November 28th and 29th Rinova and its consortium partner 15billion hosted the first meeting of the new ‘Big Bang’ partnership at the Atlee Foundation in Tower Hamlets, with partners from the Netherlands, Iceland, Spain and Austria. The partnership was formed to explore issues concerned with the ‘culture clash’ between work, school and negative peer group dynamics between young…
Lord Roberts of Llandudno hosted a screening of critically-acclaimed documentary Riot From Wrong, sponsored by Rinova, to a packed audience at the House of Commons on the 6th November, which included MPs such as David Lammy, Tessa Jowell and Karen Buck. Described as ‘A vital social document for our times’, Riot from Wrong has been hosting packed out screenings across London,…
Rinova consortium members WAC Performing Arts and Media College and Collage Arts are celebrating excellent grading results, being amongst the very highest performers in the latest London Employability Performance Ratings Calculator. The Ratings, published by the London Employment and Skills Observatory (LSEO), ranks the performance of providers on a scale of zero (lowest) to four (highest). It is currently being used by 23…
In 2007 the European Council and the European Parliament adopted the European Reference Framework of Key Competences for Lifelong Learning. Known as the ERF, this Framework defines eight ‘key competences’ that European citizens require for their personal fulfilment, social inclusion, active citizenship and employability in a changing, knowledge-based knowledge-based society. Over the last year, Rinova has been…
We are delighted to announce that an application developed by Rinova, in partnership with a new consortium led by North London Community Finance, has been appointed to run the pan-London Business Start-up Loans programme for young people. Originally launched in the 2012 Budget statement, young people aged 18-24 can now get access to up to…
Enterprise Enfield, working in partnership with Rinova, has been appointed as the successful contractor to the London Councils Response to Social Disorder Programme 2012-14 for Enfield. As well as Rinova and Enterprise Enfield, the ‘ERA’ (Enfield Rises and Achieves) partnership consists of Barnet and Southgate College, Metropolitan, Gingerbread and Enfield Education Business Partnership. ERA will recruit at…
We are pleased to announce our participation in the European Youth Enterprise initiative (EYE-i), following the approval of the project earlier in the Summer. Over the next two years, EYE-i will explore the potential of social enterprises (including cooperatives and mutuals) to address the challenges of mass youth unemployment in the EU, by exploring how new…
We’ve all enjoyed the most fabulous later part of the Summer here in London, with the Olympics and Paralympics and the wonderful achievements of Team GB. Here at Rinova, we’ve also been able to join in the celebrations with our own successes. No fewer than ten new innovative projects and programmes, which we developed earlier in…
Rinova consortium member Metropolitan Housing Trust have been a key partner in the Peabody Trust’s ‘Activate London’, an exciting 5-year programme of activities funded through the Big Lottery’s Well-being programme. As a result of an extension funding application, MHT have partnered with Rinova to implement a new programme that is supporting ‘change and impact’ for three of the projects…
