Skills Street at Gulliver's Valley
Project: Skills Street training experience development scheme
Investment: £1.6 million
Improvements at a glance
- Creation of an immersive careers experience / employment skills centre
- Skills Street – where career skills can be learned through hands on experiences and play
- Building relationships with schools and colleges, children and young people will be engaged
- Businesses will be key to the delivery of this project creating simulated interactive work environments for visitors to explore
Details of proposal
Skills Street is an immersive and innovative careers experience developed to inspire and inform children, young people, and adults from across the South Yorkshire region.
Based on the site of the UK’s newest Theme Park, Gulliver’s Valley, Skills Street will transform the way the region delivers world of work experiences and careers training for schools with this new hands-on approach to developing, growing and honing skills.
This interactive training centre will be delivered by a partnership between Gulliver’s Valley Theme Park, The Work-wise Foundation and The Source Skills Academy, creating a Centre of Excellence in training from retail to construction and from hospitality to manufacturing.
Skill Street will
Inspire: Young people will be shown the amazing career opportunities available in the South Yorkshire area. This will be delivered by a team of edutainers who will bring the opportunities to life and showcase the variety of careers on offer.
Immerse: From primary age upwards children will be able to experience the wonderful world of work in a fun and interactive way through business-driven role play attractions.
Inform: Individuals and families will be able explore the great opportunities for careers and training in the region in a relaxed and informal careers community café.
Innovate: A creative environment will allow career training to flourish at all levels from school leavers to business leaders in the leadership academy through to returners to work.
Skills Street will be a game changer for the pipeline of employment in the region, switching young people on to careers across all sectors with its immersive street filled with businesses enabling learning by role play for all ages.
Children and young people will be able to walk into a business and learn about the different roles and skills needed to work in that sector – all through play, practice and performance.
Latest News
Business leaders set to launch South Yorkshire’s Skill City
Skills Street gets seal of approval
Progress to date
For more information on the progress of the scheme, visit the Skills Street Facebook page.