Blueprint 1000®
Bringing Education and Business Together
The Design & Technology Association’s Blueprint 1000® initiative is building long term relationships between companies and schools, locally and nationally, for mutual benefit. Join us to contribute to improved outcomes for young people, communities, and business.
Blueprint 1000®
Overcomes Your Challenges
Build your diverse team
Blueprint 1000® helps you engage with curious, highly motivated young students from backgrounds you do not normally reach, to secure the best candidates and improve your recruitment process.
Support D&T education
Become part of a movement leading the way in partnerships between schools and businesses. Our collaboration turns your passion into influence over the direction of the subject, while providing context from your business. Being a partner cements your reputation as a supporter of the local community and your industry standing.
Target schools
Blueprint 1000® opens doors to conversations and effective engagement with senior school leaders and teachers, including over 33,000 Design & Technology Association members.
Commit to CSR
Blueprint 1000® provides insight into developments in the world of education increasing your knowledge, employee motivation and positive PR.
Are you interested in inspiring young people to embark on design, technology engineering and manufacturing careers and to help shape the creative, technical and vocational education they receive?
As a member you will receive
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Either access to a group of schools to build local relationships or access to national activity such as presentations at webinars, CPD, e-mail & website content dependant on company objective.
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A Planning session to build an engagement plan with school partners.
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Opportunity to sponsor events, teacher Professional development, or to host a teacher work placement.
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We will provide the latest news on Design and Technology, engineering and creative wider education, and provide contact with curriculum experts available to guide your engagement and answer any questions.
£3825 per year (+VAT) per participating business location
Looking for a cheaper alternative? Take a look at our School Business Partnership
Schools want their curriculum offer to have real context and meaning. This creates more profound levels of student engagement, which, in turn, produces better learning and progress.
Business and Industry need young people who are problem solvers, creative thinkers, and team players capable of taking initiative when required. They also need young people who have developed the resilience to ‘stick’ to a task when others have long since given up.
For a yearly cost of only £998 +VAT, we will connect your business to one school (primary or secondary). The objective is to build a curriculum connection that will last. One where your business experience and expertise can help inspire and inform the workforce of the future.
For a yearly cost of only £1,298 +VAT, we can do the above and will provide £300 directly to the school to enable curriculum work to be successfully launched and embedded.
How it works
We talk with you to identify how much (or how little) time you and your staff realistically have to spend on this connection. We identify the skills and expertise that you possess and that schools desperately need. We then talk to schools and match you with a school that is excited by what you are willing to offer.
But we don’t stop there. We help you set the initiative up and then stick with it, allowing you to build a body of work with the school that will benefit students for years to come.
Contact us now: membership@designtechnology.org.uk
It takes good people to do good things
George – Craft Apprentice
Watch VideoIt takes good people to do good things
See AllSeb – Junior Design Engineer at Prodrive
Watch Video“This is a wonderful initiative giving design and technology teachers the opportunity to see how engineers work in businesses such as Dyson. It is encouraging to know that teachers will be equipped with industry-relevant knowledge and skills to teach young people about the exciting, creative and challenging world of engineering.”
Sir James Dyson
As a member, you are in good company
The Design and Technology Association’s Blueprint 1000® initiative is building long term relationships between companies and schools, locally and nationally, for mutual benefit. Join us to contribute to improved outcomes for young people, communities, and business.
