Students from the University of Bath’s School of Management are helping local charities and community groups while also developing their managerial, creative and professional skills in a scheme sponsored by city-based global engineering firm Rotork.
The Rotork Community Challenge encourages the MSc students to find new ways to help 20 Bath charities and organisations with their activities and community support work.
The challenges faced by the 120-plus students taking part include creating a TikTok strategy to attract young people to libraries, developing marketing and fundraising campaigns, improving social media presence, designing a Christmas stall and helping a charity which sources business wear for women returning to the workplace.
The results of each project will be judged by business and management experts on 12 December with the winning team receiving a donation from Rotork for their project’s cause or charity.
Student experience officer Viktoriia Korsun said: “The Rotork Community Challenge has become a regular – and incredibly popular – fixture amongst our students, who are inspired by its aim to contribute to the wider Bath community and the opportunity it provides to develop their teamworking, planning, leadership and project management skills.”
Rotork early careers manager Marie-Pier Fournier added: “We are proud as a local company to support this valuable annual initiative and look forward to hearing how the School of Management students have responded to the challenges from the charities to help the local community,”
Charities and community groups taking part include mental health charity Bath Mencap, Citizens Advice, hospice care group Dorothy House, the Children’s Society, Fringe Arts Bath, Food Cycle, 1st Impressions, which provides coaching and styling for women attending interviews, food bank provider Genesis Trust Bath and The Paul Hodges Trust, which works to tackle poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, pictured.
Rotork equipment to customers in the oil, gas, water, wastewater and power sectors to manage the flow of liquids, gases and powders.
