In anticipation of The Wellsprings innovation centre opening Autumn this year 2024 (watch this space), Business Bolton are rolling out targeted and tailored business support programmes designed to help Bolton entrepreneurs start, grow, and innovate in their businesses.
Offerings Include:
1:1 mentoring sessions
Group events and activities
With expert guidance from The Wellsprings team, you’ll gain the tools, support, and community connections necessary to achieve your business goals. To help you build a supportive entrepreneurial community and connect with peers and experts locally and nationally.
Specifically crafted to address the unique challenges faced by Bolton businesses, the programme leverages Oxford Innovation Space’s national network of business growth specialists and utilizes proven tools and techniques to empower your business.
These events are free to attend, but spaces are limited, so be sure to register early!
Clear Futures is breathing fresh life into a large vacant and disused 1980s Bolton town centre building – converting the seven-storey structure into a new and valuable mixed-use environment, offering retail, commercial and event space in the heart of Bolton Town Centre, for our partner Bolton Council.
In partnership with Liverpool City Council, Clear Futures is supporting the local supply chain so they can upskill their businesses.
Liverpool City Council’s Business Support Service is hosting a series of four lunchtime webinars in September for Liverpool construction companies.
LCC will be joined by Clear Futures Tier 1 Supply Chain Partners Robertson and Seddon, in addition to LRTG (Liverpool Region Training Group) and CITB (Construction Industry Training Board).
Clear Futures and our partners will provide webinars on:
Clear Futures works in partnership with Liverpool City Council to strategically address their local priorities. In developing, designing, procuring, and managing the delivery of sustainable buildings, Clear Futures ensures these facilities drive positive, long-lasting change within the local community.
Delivering Special Educational Needs schools in Liverpool
Clear Futures and Liverpool Council have worked in partnership to deliver projects at pace to provide modern learning spaces for young people with special educational needs. Theexpert supply chain partners, Seddon and Robertson, completed phase 1 of this work.
Clear Futures and Liverpool City Council began working together to deliver these education projects at pace to provide modern learning spaces for local young people. As our partnership develops, we will explore opportunities to drive net zero action and provide strategic support to the Council to support local key priorities.
Clear Futures is working with Girls Out Loud in Liverpool which is a social enterprise to deliver ‘The Big Sister mentoring programme’ over a 12-month period, running from 2024 to 2025. The programme provides life-changing mentoring support, focusing on themes such as personal identity, role models, career advice, improving confidence self-esteem self-respect and emotional resilience during their challenging teenage years.
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hours volunteering
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Two mentors from Clear Futures strategic partners Robertson and AECOM, have volunteered to support The Big Sister Programme due to start in July 24 with girls from St Julies Catholic School in the city.
Clear Futures is committed to driving long-term social change through the work all its strategic partnerships and the aims of Girls Out Loud align perfectly with this ethos. Having someone to talk to and guide them through this frame-breaking time when their identity is taking shape, can make a huge difference to their lives in the long term.
Clear Futures Supply Chain Partner, Seddon Construction, attended the ‘Role Model Relay’ event in January 2024, which catered for up to 120 girls from St Julie’s Catholic High School in Liverpool. Inspiring female role models shared their amazing journeys and provided interaction through a structured, supportive speed mentoring format.
Watch the video below to find out more about Girls Out Loud Big Sister programme.
The Big Sister mentoring programme targets the girls who sit in the middle of the cohort and simply cruise and are in danger of becoming invisible as they are neither seriously disruptive, nor super academically gifted. They struggle to find their place and often get lost in the noise and either hide in the corner or look for validation in all the wrong places. At Girls Out Loud we understand these girls very well and believe they have the potential to be shining stars. They are the managers, leaders and entrepreneurs of the future and with some investment from a team of awesome role models to light the way they will learn to believe in themselves, find their voice, step up and shine.
Girls Out Loud
Strategic support for Special Educational Needs in Liverpool
Clear Futures and Liverpool Council have worked in partnership to deliver projects at pace to provide modern learning spaces for young people with special educational needs.Our Tier 1 suppliers delivered these projects and our work continues with the construction of new facilities in phase 2.
Clear Futures and Liverpool City Council began working together to deliver education projects at pace to provide modern learning spaces for local young people. As our partnership develops, we will explore opportunities to drive net zero action and provide strategic support to the Council to support local key priorities.
The Bolton office refurbishment project underwent an assessor visit by the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS), resulting in Robertson Construction North West being awarded a perfect site score.
The CCS assessor visit is conducted against the Code of Considerate Practice, comprising three categories: ‘Respect the Community’, ‘Protect the Environment’ and ‘Value their Workforce’.
Categories are scored out of 15, and of the 45 available, the team received a faultless score of 45.
Within the monitor’s report, the site was praised for presenting ‘an excellent positive image of the industry’ and for the team’s efforts in attaining spotless scores in each of the three assessed categories.
Respect the Community
The site was commended for its consideration for the local community through having regular contact with stakeholders and a social value plan that will provide benefits long after the project is complete. This includes hosting mental health talks on-site, fundraising for charities and engaging with local schools and colleges.
Protect the Environment
Utilising the Environmental Management System, the site has mitigated waste and ensured positive environmental performance of the project.
Value their Workforce
With diligent skill and safety checks, flexible individual working practices with a focus on inclusion and diversity, and excellent facilities, the assessor described ‘an excellent, well maintained and supportive workplace’.
As a responsible constructor, we ensure that the successful projects we deliver have the community, environment and our team at the fore. It is excellent that the CCS has recognised our consistent efforts and commitment of ensuring best practice. Congratulations and thank you to the Wellsprings project team.
Robertson North West Regional Managing Director Dirk Pittaway
We are delighted to announce that the Bolton Central Library received the bronze award at the Considerate Constructors Scheme awards in Manchester.
With its reopening in January 2024, the Library has entered a new chapter following a £4.4m transformation by Robertson Group North West on behalf of Clear Futures.
The Grade II-listed building now provides new creative and cultural spaces that modernise and adapt it to meet changing user requirements and serve the wider needs of the community.
Congratulations to all the teams involved for their contributions. It’s great to see the library being recognised on a regional level.
