Social Inclusion is one of the three key pillars of our Diversity & Inclusion strategy.
We aim to place a strong focus on providing career development opportunities for people regardless of their social, educational and financial backgrounds. We firmly believe that providing opportunities to a more socially diverse range of people will enrich our business.
To help us deliver on this, in 2022 we began a partnership with the Drive Forward Foundation. Drive Forward helps young adults leaving foster or residential care to achieve their full potential with exciting and sustainable employment opportunities.
In support of that partnership we:
- Hold regular events to provide care-experienced young people with inspiration, skills and pathways into employment
- Offer one-to-one mentoring with a number of care-experienced people from Drive Forward
- Run a regular work experience programme where young people are able to design and build their own app over the course of a week
- Include Drive Forward candidates in our recruitment opportunities
One particular success is one of hires from Drive Forward being promoted twice in his first two years at Candyspace and being nominated as a Rising Star at both the BIMA100 and the Drum Awards 2025.
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