Real Ideas Organisation

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• Arts Award
  RIO delivers the Trinity Guildhall Arts Awards in the Southwest, an accreditation scheme developing and acknowledging young peoples’ engagement with the arts while training youth workers, teachers and artists to run the scheme with young people. To find o...

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• BBC Blast
  Get involved with BBC Blast this summer with our mobile media village touring the Southwest! Real Events is managing this year's BBC Blast Southwest activity which means that through July and August, BBC Blast’s mobile media village will be touring the re...
• Building Job Opportunities for preNEETs, NEETS and the Unemployed
  We work with customers to find new ways for the unemployed, young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs) and the most disadvantaged to make positive change for themselves; kick start their careers, build confidence or simply move forward....
• Building Schools for the Future
  Building Schools for the Future (BSF) is a programme that get students, parents and teachers at secondary schools working on their new buildings by commissioning public art as part of the BSF programme. For more information contact kim.tilbrook@realideas....
• Building Schools for the Future (BSF): Somerset
  RIO has been strategically working with Somerset County Council since 2007 to ensure that young people in Bridgwater are a key part of the BSF process and have real impact on the procurement and design of the new buildings, artwork and installations creat...

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• CCTF Partnership
  producing products for children by children, beginning with language learning materials. Held within the first ever Sino-UK joint venture social enterprise. For more information contact Amanda Colbourne.
• Chew TV
  Chew TV is a pioneering Web TV Company run by and for young people aged 14-25, from all over the world. Chew TV gives a voice to young people, providing a global showcase for new talent in digital media to connect and share ideas, whilst allowing anyone t...
• Comic Relief Young Researchers’ Partnership
  Empowering young people to engage in a meaningful dialogue with Comic Relief to enable their ideas to influence it's major campaigns. For more information contact Laura Martin - laura.martin@realideas.org
• Create Your Future
  RIO's Create Your Future is an innovative programme supporting people in Cornwall back into employment using the creative industries as a launch pad.It is funded by investment from the European Social Fund through Jobcentre Plus. RIO is one of nine leadin...
• Creating Healthy Spaces
  Creating Healthy Spaces RIO has been working with three secondary schools in Cornwall to design and develop Integrated Health Centres on school sites. The programme, led by young people has involved the design of each Health Centre’s interior sp...
• Creative Curriculum
  Through our creative curriculum package we tailor exciting and compelling approaches to curriculum; localised curriculum, topical, thematic and cross curricular approaches and highly effective experiential learning.  Working in partnership with us, s...
• Creative ICT
  We work in a wide range of exciting and accessible ways to support schools in developing how you use creative ICT. From helping you choose and buy the best film equipment and editing software for your needs, to long term strategic support or exciting pupi...
• Creative Partnerships
  RIO delivers Creative Partnerships across the Southwest, working with schools and creative professionals to develop the skills of young people. Partnerships is the Government’s flagship creative learning programme, designed to develop the skills of...
• Cross Step
  Cross Step is an exciting four week surf programme for 16-25 year olds not in education, employment or training. Create Your Future has teamed up with Newquay-based, surf resources website Groundswell to create Cross Step a brand new entry to employment p...
• Cultivate
  Cultivate is a brand new, ground up approach to rural youth provision. It works in areas where there is an identified need, seeking out young people between 13-19 and working with them to identify and develop activity they will engage with. By connecting...
• Cultural Architects
  Cultural Architects is a learning programme developed for a cluster of Swindon schools which raises the attainment, achievement, behaviour, confidence and aspirations of year 8 and 9 students who are leaders in their peer groups and have difficulty in sch...

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• Designing and Building
  The redevelopment of a space, whether it’s a nature reserve, a school site or a whole town can be a rich and valuable resource, full of opportunities for real learning. Our Designing and Building package focuses on drawing out the potential learning oppor...
• Devonport Guildhall
  RIO is transforming the Devonport Guildhall into a buzzing social enterprise hub and community centre for Devonport, Plymouth and the Southwest. By working together with energetic and ambitious partners including CoastNet, Attik Dance and Chew TV, RIO wil...

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• Helping young people change spaces, services and communities
  We help customers improve what they can offer young people through direct engagement; finding the best approaches to enable young people to question, design, develop and change the places, spaces and services provided for them. From designing integrated h...

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• Innovative Approaches to Core Subjects
  Maintaining and increasing standards and achievement in core subjects is often the main strategy for schools. Through our Innovative Approaches to Core Subjects package, we engage and motivate children with exciting, experiential and responsive processes...

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• mybluesky
  Are you working in education? If you want accredited professional learning that will enhance creative thinking and leadership skills then mybluesky is for you. Email us at cpd@mybluesky.co.uk

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• New Leaf

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• Outdoor Learning
  For young people, the development of outdoor spaces within their learning environment can provide stimulus for all subjects, from science maths and geography, to art and design. It’s also an opportunity for young people to take ownership of a part of the...

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• Real Events
  A fresh approach to events management, we work with young creative producers to make your event fly. A great event has people talking about it before, during and after it takes place. It’s slick and professional, imaginative and inspiring, fresh and diffe...
• RIO: International
  RIO is looking for international partners who share our ideals and have a passion and drive for social change. Here is just some of our work globally: China Following on from a range of in-depth study visits to China, supported by both the British Council...

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• Sea 4 Life
  Sea4life is a coastal research and learning programme and forms one of RIO's social enterprise units. It brings together a growing network of schools and communities who are practically engaged in making the most of their marine and coastal environments....
• Silk Road
  Silk Road is the Real Ideas Organisation’s new Chinese language and culture programme. It has been developed, in partnership with Plymouth City Council, through our work with schools in the UK and in China over the last two years. How does it work? Silk R...
• Social Enterprise in the Curriculum
  As a social enterprise ourselves, we can see the real learning opportunities that understanding the balance of people, planet and profit presents for young people. Through our Social Enterprise in the Curriculum package we can help teachers tailor units t...
• Social Enterprise Qualification
  The Social Enterprise Qualification is a new qualification for a socially enterprising generation. We are piloting a new qualification for young people – the Social Enterprise Qualification – to accredit young people working for positive social change. To...
• Social Enterprise Qualification: Award Structure
  BRONZE Social Enterprise Qualification: Introduces social enterprise as a means for change; running a one off market stall or event to raise money for a social cause.Bronze is divided into 3 units:Unit 1) Young Researcher Unit 2) Young InnovatorUnit 3) Yo...
• Splash
  Working with Cinderford Regeneration Board and a cluster of schools in Cinderford, RIO has developed Splash magazine an exciting new youth-led publication and website which sees young people exploring their thoughts around developments in their home town....
• Stepping Into Shoes
  RIO's Stepping into Shoes is a communication programme which uses the arts as a vehicle for young people to discuss and consider healthcare issues. In 2008/9 Stepping into Shoes was commissioned by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust. Over...
• Supporting Schools to Innovate and Improve
  From creative curriculum to innovative approaches to core subjects; from designing and building to outdoor learning, from creative ICT to social enterprise in the curriculum; we work closely with schools from across the country to raise standards, increas...

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• Virtual Schools
  Virtual Schools works with looked after children to develop fresh approaches to learning, in partnership with local authorities, schools and foster carers. The Real Ideas Organisation is working with the local authorities in Bournemouth, Cornwall, Exeter,...

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• Xtravert
  Xtravert is a programme for 16-25 year olds not in education, employment or training, which uses skating as a hook to train them in carpentry skills. Currently being piloted in Cornwall, the programme gives young people a new set of skills while also insp...

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• Young Promoters
  Young Promoters is a new approach to increasing the participation of young people in the arts. The programme gives young people in rural areas the chance to have their say about what gets put on in their community and the opportunity to get directly invol...