Opportunity Plus

In our area, as in many others, there are children who have few or no aspirations for future employment and who have no knowledge or understanding of the career and employment opportunities available to them.

Four or five times each year, in collabration with the local primary school and with local businesses we take 5 or 6 children to visit local businesses. The children are selected by the school and are usually in their last year at primary school - age range 9-11 years. At each business they meet owners and staff who describe and show the employment opportunities and skills required at that business.

We organise the businesses and bus the children, accompanied by Lions, to the businesses.