About Impact:

The Impact project is a 3-year project that provides opportunities for young people, local businesses (and their employees) to develop the skills and abilities needed to ensure personal and business success.

The project has received funding from the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), which has enabled two project workers (Shaun Farrell and Lyn Wakeford) to be employed. Other project partners include Gosport Borough Council, Portsmouth University, local schools, St Vincent College and business support organisations, such as South Hants Enterprise Agency and Business Link.

Knowledge of what could be done to improve the local skills base has been helped by the completion of a baseline study, which has captured the views of a range of businesses and young people in the Borough. This gives an interesting insight into attitudes towards skills, business support and living and working in Gosport. Click here for a copy of the report to find out more.

In addition to improving the local skills base and contributing to the growth of the local economy, the project aims to improve links between businesses and education. One recent example of this working successfully has been the development of this website.

Website Challenge

Pupils at Bay House School were asked to design a website that would help promote the project. They were given a brief, a copy of the project’s logo and two months to complete the task. Working either individually or in teams, the students then applied their own creative thinking and technical expertise. This was then put to the test by a panel of judges at the grand finale at Bayside Cabin on 17th January. One local business, having got involved in the project, not only took time to act as a judge for the website challenge but has also since offered to visit Bay House School and work with IT students.

Eleven entries were received for the website challenge from Year 10 and the Sixth Form, with David Linfield (aka Sputnik) being the overall winner.

Latest News/Events

Exporting Business Opportunities event –
7th February 2007
8.30 – 10.30am at
Gosport Business Centre