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A SOCIAL enterprise in Swindon that gives young people work experience to improve their skills and help them find employment has taken on two new managing partners. The Platform Project welcomed Alison Adams and Michelle Simpson from Old Town to its team after receiving grant funding from the John Lewis Partnership Community Legacy Fund. Michelle said: “I have followed The Platform Project from its early stages and have been so impressed by the impact and work that it does. "I have a personal desire to use my knowledge and personal experience of working with large corporates to find...

CHARITY founder Fiona Simpson has joined Swindon-based social enterprise The Platform Project to help more young people find work or take their next steps in life. Thanks to the project receiving new funding grants, Fiona is now the latest member of the team, a part-time youth development manager. She has worked with young people in various roles, including co-founding a charitable foundation in 2016. Her new role will support the internship programme, which is where young people aged 16 to 21 attend the project's training workplace to do developmental work-experience. The interns r...

A SOCIAL enterprise in Swindon that helps disadvantaged young people improve their career prospects is extending its support to a wider age range.