Sheffield company gives year of support to city youth homelessness charity

Stephen Kenwright and Carrie Rose of Rise and Seven

The company are planning to kick off their year of fundraising for Roundabout by hosting their own sleep out on the streets outside Rise at Seven’s office in St Pauls Square, Sheffield

That event will mark the launch of a whole range of partnership activity for the charity and the young people it supports.

“We’re taking on Roundabout as a client, treating them the same as we would treat clients like ODEON, Pretty Little Thing, Playstation or Parkdean Resorts,” said Rise at Seven co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Stephen Kenwright.

“We’re going to commit to delivering £120,000 of digital marketing work and advice for them over the next year, without any charge to Roundabout.”

At the same time, the company will also be offering important training opportunities to young people supported by Roundabout.

“We're offering several placements of six months at a time, paid at the real living wage, to the young people Roundabout is working with,” Stephen explained.

“There will also be opportunities to extend the arrangement and even for those placements to become permanent in some instances

“Along with that, we’re running an interview process open only to people applying via Roundabout, where we'll give advice on CVs and applications helping to build their skills and confidence for future applications.

“We are a young company, helping young people to realise their potential and that is what Roundabout does too so it feels to us that this is the perfect working partnership.”

Roundabout Chief Executive Ben Keegan commented: “The Rise at Seven team are offering an incredible level of support both to the charity and the young people we are working with.

“As we emerge from lockdown we are more aware than ever before of the need to maintain and strengthen our brand and profile.

“We look forward to working with the Rise at Seven on new ways of achieving that.

“And perhaps even more importantly, we thank them for the very real support they will be giving young people who are trying very hard to make their way in the world.

“Work placements like these are very rare, extremely valuable and will have a massive positive impact on the work we are doing.”

For more on Rise at Seven visit www.riseatseven.com