City Challenges are a programme of events providing students with the opportunity to engage with charities and social enterprises.
For our penultimate City Challenge of the academic year, we welcomed Hft to the Careers Service on 5 Tyndall Avenue.
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Bristol City of Sanctuary runs a City Challenge event
This month we had Bristol City of Sanctuary on campus to host a City Challenge with us.
City Challenges are a programme of events providing students with the opportunity to engage with charities and social enterprises and support worthwhile organisations, whilst developing skills to improve employability. By taking part in a City Challenge, students gain experience in group working, problem solving, public speaking and presentation, innovative thinking, and community engagement.
Bristol City of Sanctuary
City Challenge with Not Impossible
City Challenges are a programme of events providing students with the opportunity to engage with charities and social enterprises.
They are a great way for you to support worthwhile organisations whilst developing skills to improve employability.
Not Impossible recently hosted a City Challenge with us at the Careers Service.
One-Off Volunteering – Give two hours and make a lasting change
Hi, I’m Emily, Volunteer Coordinator at Bristol SU.
Over the past year, the Bristol SU Volunteering Team have been running ‘One-Off Opportunities’.
These are group volunteering opportunities with various organisations across Bristol, that students can take part in on a flexible and ad-hock basis. I love joining in with these sessions, to chat to the fantastic student volunteers and learn why they’ve been some of our most popular opportunities.
During Student Volunteering Week (Monday 10 to Saturday 15 February), we’ll be providing a range of events, talks and workshops to help you find your perfect volunteering role. This includes a number of One-Off Opportunities.
Be the first to hear about our events by joining our One-Off Opportunities WhatsApp Chat, and sign up to all events on the Student Volunteering Week campaign page.
(more…)91 Ways City Challenge – connecting young people through food
This month, we had 91 Ways on campus to run a City Challenge with us.
City Challenges are a programme of events providing students with the opportunity to engage with charities and social enterprises and support worthwhile organisations whilst developing skills to improve employability. By taking part in a City Challenge students gain experience in group working, problem solving, public speaking and presentation, innovative thinking, and community engagement.
91 Ways are a community-focused social enterprise based in Bristol, inspired by the city’s 91 spoken languages. They believe in the power of food to connect people and aim to create a more inclusive and resilient city.
With their tenth anniversary just around the corner, 91 Ways were in the midst of planning a full year program. This centred around using food to connect young people from different communities and equip them with the knowledge and skills to choose, cook and enjoy more nutritious food; but they needed help!
Working in groups, the students had a morning with the organisation to come up with solutions to the following Challenges:
- How do we get young people to engage in projects about healthier food choices/implement changes?
- How do we get young people interested in learning about and cooking their own food?
The groups took it in turns to present their ideas to Hannah and Jen from 91 Ways. Here are some of the suggestions that have been taken forward in their planning for next year:
- Detailing the money-saving aspect of home cooking by creating a dashboard that shows cost savings compared to buying meals at the supermarket, meal kits and takeaway.
- Why gut health is important for well-being via social media short videos.
- Quick multi-cultural cooking classes held in local community spaces/the University/schools.
- Educational cooking tips via TikTok.
- Making it fun to cook with engaging presenters and experts or if in a local community, someone that is inspiring to that audience.
Here’s what Hannah from 91 Ways had to say about how the event went.
“We got to receive input from from a demographic that we will be working with in the coming years and they gave very interesting and informative presentations which have allowed us to think in a different way whilst planning our upcoming program.
Hearing directly from the age group we will be serving was invaluable, especially in such a setting…. the students gave up their time to be there and took the questions really seriously, coming up with answers we would never have thought of and allowing us a new perspective.”
Information for organisations:
Organisations can find more information about City Challenges, Bristol PLUS, and other ways to get involved on the Careers Service website.
Students, get involved!
You can find out more about City Challenges for this term and other ways we can help you stand out to employers on the Careers Service website. Make sure you are signed up to the YourCareer newsletter to hear about upcoming events.
City Challenge: Changes Bristol
City Challenges are a programme of events providing students with the opportunity to engage with charities and social enterprises.
Students can support worthwhile organisations whilst developing skills to improve employability. By taking part in a City Challenge, students gain experience in problem solving, presentation skills, innovative thinking, and community engagement.
Changes Bristol
This month we invited Changes Bristol to host our latest City Challenge.
Changes is a user-led organisation and a unique recovery service for those in mental distress.
City Challenges kick-off the year with The MoSAIC
City Challenges are a programme of events providing students with the opportunity to engage with charities and social enterprises.
Students can support worthwhile organisations whilst developing skills to improve employability. By taking part in a City Challenge, students gain experience in group working, problem solving, public speaking and presentation, innovative thinking, and community engagement.
The MoSAIC (The Museum of Science, the Arts & Interdisciplinary Collaboration)
is a Bristol based business taking STEAM learning to the next level and reducing the disadvantage gap using cross-curricular education. They show young people and educators how creative the STEM subjects really are through online and downloadable teaching resources and accessibly priced in-person creative school workshops aimed at secondary school aged students. The MoSAIC came and hosted a session with us at the Careers Service on Tyndall Avenue. Students worked together and came up with ideas to support the marketing of services and diversification of revenue streams.
Creative community engagement with Sparks Bristol!
City Challenges went off-campus with a trip to Sparks Bristol on Wednesday 8 May.
The event started with a tour of the different departments at Sparks and a talk about what Sparks does, why it was founded, and what they stand for.
Lucy, Volunteer Coordinator, said
“Sparks Bristol is a sustainability and creativity hub. It’s a community space in the centre of Bristol where we want people to explore what a fairer and greener future looks like. And they consider the climate crisis, the cost of living crisis, and what we can do with an empty, massive building right in the middle of the city.”
Working in partnership: Tutor the Nation and the Careers Service
At the Careers Service we work in partnership with external organisations to bring a range of experiences to our students, and we like to think our brilliant students give a lot back too!
This year we have been working closely with Tutor the Nation, who have taken part in City Challenges and run mock interviews for our students as part of becoming an endorsing organisation for the Bristol PLUS Award.
(more…)City Challenges – Building Communities with Bristol Hub
Earlier in November, Bristol Student Hub teamed up with the Careers Service to run our latest City Challenge.
27 student volunteers attended in order to work together and generate ideas which would help Bristol Student Hub reflect on their current methods of community engagement and recommend new ways to build sustainable communities within their network of alumni and volunteers.
Bristol Hub is part of a national network that includes student hubs in Southampton, Bristol, and Cambridge as well as individual projects that run at other institutions.
