Education and raising achievement

Business in the Community aims to build effective, sustainable partnerships between schools and businesses - with  the ultimate goal of helping young people realise their potenial.  Our members can help young people by supporting schools and communities in the areas of enterprise education, employability and leadership and management skills.

What we're working on...

  • Business in the Community's Education Strategy

    Education is a critical responsible business issue – and the one that is consistently rated as the most popular topic for corporate community involvement.

  • Employability of Young People

    Businesses working with schools to inspire and equip students to enter the world of work.

  • Leadership and Management Skills

    Business and school leaders working together to enhance each other’s leadership and management skills. 

  • Enterprise Education

    Businesses working with schools to design and deliver relevant, challenging and engaging approaches to enterprise learning.

  • Member Case Studies

    We are writing case studies on our leading members to share the learning of what makes a successful programme, and to deepen our understanding of the benefits that successful programmes bring to both young people and to the companies themselves.

  • Annual conference

    Our 2007 conference took place on 26th November.  The date of the 2008 conference will be announced shortly.