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Ride The Wave in Action
 Ride The Wave events take place all around the country at Colleges and other venues. Check out these pages and see what students, staff and business people have been up to.
A great way to experience what Ride the Wave can offer is to come along to one of our forthcoming events at a College near you. You are welcome to join us for as little as an hour or for as long as you like.The opportunity would be ideal for anyone involved in the planning and delivery of core or wider key skills, or enrichment, enterprise or employability activities.
Members of the Senior Management Team may also be interested in hearing about and seeing the college-wide impact a programme like this can have.
If you would like to take up this offer then please contact us on 0870 720 1071 or email ridethewave@twkg.net.
Read the reports below to find out more about our recent events...
 Enterprise inspires students at Gateshead ‘Splash’ event
Although the sky looked a bit dark at the start, the 60 students who gathered for a Splash at Gateshead College weren’t worried as they got stuck into their day of enterprising activities.
The event was held in the Bridge Conference Centre at the College and the main room had an inspiring view of the Sage Centre and, over the river, the wonderful architecture that makes up the north bank of the River Tyne.
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|  A Splash in the Lakes!
120 Lakes College West Cumbria students had a fine time at the Seacote Hotel, St Bees on 12th May. Joined by 12 local Business 'experts' they developed and presented a plan for a new business idea they had created themselves. more |
|  Castle College Ride the Wave Pilot
Castle College learners pitched their ideas in the Dragons’ Den, in a challenge which aimed to show them what is involved in creating their own business! more |
|  Swindon College Splash
Swindon College were looking for a way to raise the aspirations of their students particularly with reference to future career choices. more |
|  Cornwall College make a Splash
Cornwall college were looking to give their students the edge in the job market and had set out to evaluate a number of schemes including Ride the Wave.
As part of the evaluation, the college selected to run the Splash on 21st January 2009 with 80 Level 3 vocational students with the support of 12 regional employers as the event experts. more |
|  Gloucestershire College Plunge
Gloucestershire College is the result of a recent merger between two colleges based 8 miles apart in Gloucester and Cheltenham.
One of the challenges of a merger is creating a sense of cohesion between students and staff across different campuses.
Gloscol therefore opted to pilot The Plunge as a way to bring students from different campuses together, to build friendships through multi-campus collaborative working, while adding significantly to their Employability, enterprise and entrepreneurability skills. more |
|  Bristol students take 'The Plunge'
In the last week of term before Christmas, you might have had some sympathy for the 100 Bristol College students who had been selected to take part in this 3-day challenge.
But at the end of the event initial scepticism had turned to enthusiasm - perhaps even enjoyment!
Said student Titus Akemo – “This experience has been really fantastic because I know more about setting up a business and how a business can be managed. Also how people can respond to you and the different ways in which you can handle questions and problems.”
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|  Somerset College of Art and Technology: Experts Kick Start Enterprising Students
Over 60 students at Somerset College took the first steps to learning about business and enterprise with the help of enterprise training company ‘Working Knowledge’ and local business experts from around the South West. This innovative programme helps students to understand the thinking, marketing, and presentation of their ideas and products, and two groups successfully won £100 each for their hard work and imagination. more |
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