Prince’s Trust Achieve Programme

What is The Prince’s Trust? The Prince’s Trust supports 11-30 year olds Our Programmes give young people the support they need to reach their full potential. We help develop key skills, confidence & motivation, enabling young people to get where they want to go The Prince’s Trust provide personal development opportunities to those with few or no qualifications, helping them to build their skills, confidence and motivation and move onto employment. To combat school related challenges such as truancy, exclusions and poor performance, The Prince’s Trust run Achieve clubs in over 500 schools and centres across the UK. The Achieve programme is one of 8 programmes run nationally.

Our History It all began in 1976, when HRH The Prince of Wales had a bold idea. Having completed his duty in the Royal Navy, His Royal Highness became dedicated to improving the lives of disadvantaged young people in the UK. He founded His Trust to deliver on that commitment.

What We Do The Prince’s Trust has eight different ways we can help young people achieve their goals. These are our eight different programmes. You can find out more about our programmes on our website. Here are three of them:

Mosaic offers mentoring programmes which are run in schools; creating opportunities for young people. Get Started are short courses run by professional tutors in sport, music and creative arts for 16 to 25-year-olds. Our Enterprise programme helps unemployed young people aged 18 to 30 with support and funding to work out if their business ideas are viable and whether self-employment is right for them

Our Ambassadors The Prince’s Trust is supported by Celebrity Ambassadors who share our commitment to supporting young people. Recognise anyone?

What are The Prince’s Trust Achieve Clubs? The Prince's Trust Achieve club is a personal development programme for young people aged 11 – 19. The Achieve programme helps young people to feel better about education and develop the skills and confidence they need to get where they want to go. In an Achieve club, young people can learn new skills, work as a group on projects they care about and achieve a qualification. The Prince’s Trust Achieve clubs provide young people with an informal space and the attention they need to learn skills and confidence as well as to form a sense of ownership over their work and own development. It targets young people who need some extra motivation and a new approach to help them get excited about learning again. Achieve aims to re-engage young people in education by ensuring learning becomes accessible, valid, relevant and attractive.

Results Achieve is designed to help young people improve: Attainment: achieving better grades at school, reaching educational goals and working towards a qualification Attendance: being motivated to attend school regularly Personal and social development: building confidence, teamwork skills and resilience Engagement with school: interacting better with teachers and other students and enjoying education

* 94% OF YOUNG PEOPLE WOULD RECOMMEND IT TO OTHERS

Profile Forms These enrol you onto the Achieve programme. Your teacher will help you complete the forms. Please try to complete the form as fully as possible.   Please ask young people to fill in Profile forms Advice on how to fill them in can be found here: http://web1.princes-trust.org.uk/delivery_partners_for_xl/xlmicrosite/delivery/delivery_of_the_xl_programme.aspx

Ground Rules It’s a good idea to get the whole group onboard and working to common aims. The ‘Ground Rules’ session plan on the Learning Hub is very helpful at this point http://web1.princes-trust.org.uk/delivery_partners_for_xl/xlmicrosite/teaching_resources/personal_development_plan/early_days.aspx

What are we going to do? Explain that they will not being doing all these units, but they will be concentrating on the Planning for Personal Development Unit, one of the units within the Personal Development and Employability Skills Qualification.

Test your knowledge with our Achieve quiz!

Prince’s Trust Quiz In what year was the Prince’s Trust founded? (Bonus point if you can say how old that makes the Trust!) Why are we called The Prince’s Trust? Can you name a Prince’s Trust celebrity Ambassador? How old do you have to be to come on the Achieve programme? Can you name another Prince’s Trust programme, other than Achieve? What does the Enterprise programme help young people to do? Name one of the skills you’ll be learning as part of Achieve.

Quiz Answers In what year was the Prince’s Trust founded? (Bonus point if you can say how old that makes the Trust!) 1976, making us 41 years old Why are we called The Prince’s Trust? Because we were founded by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who is the charity’s President Can you name a Prince’sTrust Celebrity Ambassador? Kevin Spacey, Cheryl Cole, Helen Mirren, Ant & Dec, Katie Piper – the list goes on How old do you have to be to come on the Achieve programme? 11 to 19 Can you name another Prince’s Trust programme, other than Achieve? Enterprise, Get Started, Mosaic. Or Get into, Fairbridge, Development Awards or team! What does the Enterprise programme help young people to do? Explore whether self-employment is right for them, and, if it is, help them their own business Name one of the skills you’ll be learning as part of Achieve. Managing Feelings, Communication, Working with Others, Reliability, Setting and Achieving Goals