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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DISC

Launch of DISC

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Digital Advantage Winners

DA Manchester Winners
Emojo win Digital Advantage 2016 Against all the odds the £5000 Digital Advantage 2015-16 enterprise competition has been won by Chorlton High School with their app to create and share your own customised Emojis – called Emojo. The innovative digital skills programme Digital Advantage, designed and developed by The White Room, and funded by Manchester
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