New funding for our outreach programme.

Much of the work DA do in Schools is not funded by the formal education system so we rely on the generous donations from Charities, Foundations, individual and corporate donors so that we can provide our inspirational training free to those who need it most. This year we are proud to have been chosen by
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DISC team – meet Fran

Fran and Intern studying functional skills
Introducing Fran, DISCs Pastoral Lead and Head of Functional Skills and one of our designated Safeguarding Officers. A secondary school teacher for many years. She joined the college at the start of the academic year and is working with our 10 Interns on their functional skills, and caring and supporting them all pastorally.  In addition
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Thomas’ visit

Thomas and Caprice
Fantastic for the interns and apprentices of DISC Digital Independent Specialist College to meet Thomas Shaw co-founder and CTO of https://auxcode.com last month at @digivantage. We love AuxCode OOD’s honesty, truthfulness and inclusive workplace ethos. Thomas is an inspirational individual. We love that he travels sustainably throughout Europe by bike and train helping young individuals
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422

422 Podcast Club
On the A6 Manchester Road in Longsight stands 422 https://422manchester.org/. A Manchester Vinyard project, restoring this magnificent building to create a warm and welcoming community hub, hosting an affordable cafe and kitchen, after school clubs, community pantry, free groups and space for hire for like minded groups and events and services to help alleviate poverty
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Dylan Apprenticeship Story

Dylan
Dylan originally joined the Digital Advantage as part of Digital Inc. internship in 2021. The course was transformational for him, building his digital skills, along with confidence and timekeeping. An asset to any company, Digital Advantage was keen to keep hold of Dylan and were delighted that the Co-op stepped forward to partially fund his
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DISC

Launch of DISC

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Pupils with SEND learn skills for digital careers

Digital Advantage training SEND pupils
We have a case study featured in this months issue of Children & Young People Now. It looks at our Digital Inc. Agency that offered digital supported internships to young people with SEND. It charts the progress of Beck, one of our interns, who we first met at one of our Pop-Up Digital Agency deliveries,
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‘Pop-up’ digital agency gives 100s of Lancashire teens a taste for business

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Classroom life – Walken High School

We have worked with Josh Mangas at Walkden High school for a number of years, taking Digital Advantage both into School and Salford College, where his students gained valuable work experience developing their own digital projects. In this article Joshua Mangas explains how working with industry is helping to change the fortune of disadvantaged young
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Mechfix – PopUp Winners, Bradford, 2019

What a standard this team from Laisterdyke Leadership Academy in Bradford set for all to follow.  After waiting for the whole academic year to claim their prize, they did it with a great cheer of delight - just what we look for from our winners! 

Led by DA industry trainer Steve Rawling, the team were consummate professionals from start to finish.  Focus never wavered and when faced with differing opinions they were dealt with maturely throughout. The result? MechFix - an app to help you solve all of your car’s problems making use of Blockchain technology to let you securely check a service history and keep a record of work you carry out as well as find recommended local mechanics.

Aside from a viable concept and integration of blockchain technology, of particular interest to the judging panel was the business plan with carefully considered costings and exploration of partnerships with big players in the market such as Kwik Fit which showed a mature and open response to the development of their business.
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