Integrating the company with the community

Abstract

The Action Resource Centre was conceived within the Public Affairs Department of IBM. John Hargreaves, its director, had been a founder member of The Trident Trust, an educational charity established in 1971 to help young people during schooltime to mature, through self‐development, a knowledge of the community and experience of work. At the same time the Trust was persuading employers to see beyond the usual academic achievements to skills, experience and personal qualities not normally measured. Trident now operates in eight areas, each with a full‐time coordinator seconded by local industry to match the needs of the pupils and the organisations in the three activity areas. Several thousand pupils and several hundred firms later, Trident is successful and expanding.

Citation

SKEY, A. and BAXTER, M. (1976), "Integrating the company with the community", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 51-53. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003519