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Business Services

BLC award winner Acuwomen and schools in the West Midlands
Angela Maxwell, Director of Acuwomen, gets students to think outside the box by incorporating language, culture and globalisation into the talks she delivers to students around the West Midlands. She aims to inspire more young people to become entrepreneurs, explaining how learning languages and working abroad has helped her to succeed in business...

BLC shortlisted Euro London Appointments and London schools
Euro London managers visit several London schools and universities each year. They give presentations to students about why languages are important and the types of job opportunities available to people that speak another language. Types of engagement include employee volunteering and hosting student workplace visits...

BLC shortlisted IBC and schools in Yorkshire and Humber
Following a half-day visit to a business using languages in the South Yorkshire region, ten students working on the NVQ IBC Business French course took part in a pilot two-week work placement to Angers in France. This innovative partnership included two Sheffield schools, Education Business Partnership (EBP) Rotherham, and the Compagnons du Devoir (CDD) BLC shortlisted

MAX Conflict Management and schools in the EM
Mark Wingfield from MAX Conflict Management has successfully supported a number of schools and projects to engage students in multilingual self-defense workshops in either French or German...

Construction

BLC shortlisted Ancon and schools in Yorkshire and Humber
Groups of students visit Ancon’s offices to hear about how languages are used in the construction industry and take part in various interactive activities that demonstrate how the company’s staff use their language skills in their day to day work duties...

Financial services

BLC award winner HSBC and London schools
HSBC’s BLC scheme has been set up and is managed by trainees on their graduate programme in London. Through a two part ‘package’, which consists of a half-day’s series of in-school language workshops and a half-day’s visit to HSBC’s world headquarters in Canary Wharf, HSBC trainees work with Year 9 pupils to promote languages in business...

Technology and computer gaming

BLC highly commended IBM Newcastle and schools in the North East
IBM Newcastle has launched a range of creative activities in German and French to inspire language learners in primary and secondary schools. Activities have improved motivation and results for students whilst giving the business an opportunity to build links with its local community and develop the skills of their staff volunteers...

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Manufacturing

BLC highly commended Gripple Ltd and schools in Yorkshire and Humber
This SME, working in manufacturing and engineering, has shown exceptional commitment to supporting language learning in the Sheffield area. NVQ language students enjoy visits to the business, while selected year 10 language students at Meadowhead School and Language College participate in a new collaborative language project each year...

Sport and leisure

BLC shortlisted Bradford City FC and St. Bede’s school, Y&H
This BLC project is a two way partnership between the Club and St. Bede’s School in Yorkshire and is called “Score with Languages”. Students from the school prepare and hold an exclusive interview in Spanish with a Chilean Bradford City FC player and hear from the club’s CEO about the relevance of languages in the sports sector...

BLC award winner Widnes Vikings and Wade Deacon High School, NW
Toulouse’s inauguration game in the Super League, played at Widnes inspired the original idea for the club to link up with Wade Deacon High School to teach players some rugby themed vocabulary in French. All Key Stage 3 and 4 French students were involved in the project with some even being featured on Sky Sports giving a French lesson...

Travel and tourism

BLC highly commended British Airways and UK schools
BA trains teachers to test students in the BA Language Flag Award. Based on the BA language test for employees, it is offered in 18 languages and 59 schools across the country are currently involved. The airline also delivers language presentations in schools and hosts language immersion at their Learning Centre, reaching 2,300 secondary and primary students this year...

BLC highly commended Hotel la Place and London Schools
The general manager of Hotel La Place has shown outstanding dedication to the support of language learning in schools across London. His creative approach, interactive workshops and role plays bring languages to life. He is passionate about sharing his business and language skills with young people to ensure that they value languages as a skill for life...