2. Why Young People and Skills
• Create better customers
• Create better employees
• Create better avenues into work for
young people
3. How are we going to do this ….
• Primary Schools
• Secondary Schools
• Out of School Clubs
• Leisure time
• Into work
Working cross functionally will allow us to develop a
successful journey for young people that gives
them the skills and confidence to make better
homes and better lives
4. Primary School
•Kids Classes
Our successful kids workshops run in 60 stores, we will use our
school contacts to grow these classes and ensure that more
children get to enjoy DIY and grow in confidence.
Encourage stores to build relationships with the schools local to
them
We can offer children a fun and store based experience of B&Q
creating loyalty from an early age.
We are working on developing a lesson plan that will be available for
schools not in a kids class area to download for free.
Over three years we will build a database of 1000 schools.
Year 2
Year 3
Year 1 400 primary schools coaster lesson plan
Reach of 12000
children will
know how to:
Saw, Sand,
Varnish
700 primary schools
Development of
coaster in a
box lesson plan
Reach of 21000
children will know
how to:
Saw, Sand, Varnish
1000 schools
inc. secondary
schools
Coaster in a box lesson
plan available for
secondary schools
Promote Kids
Workshops
through school
contacts
Promote Kids
Workshops
through school
contacts
Reach of 30000 children
will know how to: saw,
sand, varnish, measure,
drill
5. Secondary
• Work with B-Live
Work with People Function to create a information, guidance and advice for young people on employment and retail careers.
Helping to create better employees, better avenues into employment.
We will also work with them to deliver 3 lesson plans which will give young people practical and employable skills.
helping to create better customers, better employees and better avenues into employment
• Create our own schools online tool kit
A selection of lesson plans and curriculum breakout day plans will be available on diy.com for schools to download for free.
• Build our own relationships with schools
Work with Retail Function to ensure that the community links between our stores and their local schools are maximised.
Use of our database to create strong community links between our stores and their local schools.
