pinkspiration
Mountain Ash
Pinkspiration aims to inspire young people and transform communities. Our
business was founded in July 2011 and offers skills based training to gain on
site experience increasing knowledge to progress into industry, regenerating
some of the 380,000 empty spaces and empty shops across the United Kingdom. Our
business offers industry placements, mentoring, advice and guidance. Up skilling
the next generation of young people to help close the increasing skills gap. Our
team offers a number of opportunities through industry placements on our TV
programme Transforming Spaces‘ Design Factor’ featured on BBC. Since launch
8,500 young people directly up skilled of which 70% have progressed onto
training, employment or Starting Up. Our construction sites are 50/50 gender
split and our teams have re-generated 16 empty spaces, empty homes, heritage
buildings and worked on Wales largest road scheme a £400 million programme. REAL
ISSUES * Nearly 1 million young people unemployed * Over 380,000 empty spaces
& empty shops in the UK *
Over 220 million tons of waste generated for
Landfill * Only 3% of women in manual trades, 5% in engineering and only 2% of
female owned businesses in Wales Transforming Spaces: Design Factor Our
construction projects transforms empty and unused spaces through working with
the community on the planning, design and build. Working with build experts and
volunteers from the community it acts like DIY SOS/60 minute makeover. The aim
is to up skill young people and members of the community to gain on site
experience. If you have an empty space or empty building our team will work with
you on the planning, design and rebuild of the space to turn it into a thriving
community provision. Training on the site includes: planning, construction,
managing budgets, Marketing, enterprise, business and managing the whole
project. Our team and the experts will work on site for around one week to
re-build the space and encourage volunteers to become involved and progress into
training, employment or Starting Up. Helping people to gain vital industry
experience to progress their career. The whole process is filmed and broadcast.
Our build projects have included Wales First Garden City Café, The Hope
Centre-Newport, Blaenau Gwent Community Hub-Waundeg, Empty Shops Project-Cardiff
& Newport, State of the Art Cinema Room using Recycled Pallets- Cwmbran Centre
for Young People, Penygraig Empty Shop, Newport Heritage Building. All photos of
our construction projects can be seen on our Facebook Page.
