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PEF Contribution

• The Private Equity Foundation (PEF) has teamed up with Vital Regeneration, a charity working in some of London's most deprived areas.
• To help it expand a programme  helping young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) produce their own music and manage live events and gain key numeracy and literacy skills at the same time.
• PEF has invested into Studio+, run by Vital Regeneration.

Introducing the Charity

Around 95% of participants on Studio+ are either not in education, employment or training (NEET) when they start the course, or are at risk of becoming NEET.Vital Regeneration's objective in developing Studio+ is to provide a bridge for young people who have not achieved qualifications, to enable them to engage with ongoing training and employment opportunities. This programme builds the literacy and numeracy skills of NEET young people and effectively reconnects them to mainstream education or work.

Studio+ provides these young people a chance to demonstrate what they're innately capable of. It provides a unique training programme (delivered in 30 hour modules) offering the opportunity to achieve creative media accreditations, while developing literacy and numeracy skills and prepare them for national qualifications. So far 50% of participants of Studio+ have moved on to full time employment or trainee placements and 38% to further education.