Project 1500
Welcome to our brand new strategy for 2024 - 2027. This strategy sets out our bold intentions to ensure we are empowering apprentices and enriching communities.
Project 1500 heralds a bold and exciting next three years for the charity. We have taken so much learning and pride from the outcomes of the previous strategy that has helped inform our new vision, mission and purpose, alongside the all-important voices of our apprentices and our partners along the way to help shape the ambitious targets we have now set for the period 2024 - 2027. These aspirational goals will further demonstrate the power of collaboration and will see the charity grow and enhance its offer like never before. We hope you are as excited as we are, and that you are ready to support us on this journey as we ultimately enable even greater numbers of diverse young talent to find long term career pathways that positively impact themselves and their wider community in the years ahead.
Our small but impactful charity team adhere to a very simple values statement:
We are collaborative, inclusive and empowering, and we challenge ourselves to always put young people at the heart of everything we do.
Our strategy helps guide our work to support people like Ahsan.
Overcoming significant disabilities, Ahsan was bullied at school and had real confidence issues. He found the Mixed Ability Rugby scheme was the perfect outlet and under the wing of coach, Phil ‘Cookie’ Wilson, he was persuaded to lead sessions and eventually undertake his apprenticeship with White Rose Rugby. “I was a bit scared when I started and a bit shy and nervous, but I got better and better. I loved learning a different skill, having fun and being with the kids every day”
He was progressing well but when lockdown hit again, the team were concerned about Ahsan’s general health and whether he would continue on the programme. But with the support of his employers and the Coach Core team, he remained engaged and began to lead coaching sessions over Zoom for the kids in his group.
The apprenticeship saw him gain confidence in all areas of his role, but especially in public speaking and coaching.
In 2023, Ahsan was awarded the Coach Core Graduate of the Year, and he continues to inspire other young people, with or without disabilities, in his local community.
You can hear from Ahsan himself in this inspiring video: