Aboyne Academy & Glen Tanar win Inspiring Futures Award

Last weeks' Northern Star Business Awards at the AECC, saw a success for Aboyne Academy and Glen Tanar, when they scooped the Inspiring Futures Award. This was in recognition of their ongoing partnership, which seeks to deliver hands-on career inspiration experiences to local school children, through a series of interactive learning days.
The partnership was first initiated, a few years ago, to raise awareness among academy pupils of the wide range of career opportunities available to them, in local sectors such as the forestry industry. Latterly, the relationship between the two has expanded to cover the growing tourism sector, with the piloting of a hospitality and tourism day.
Glen Tanar’s Michael Bruce was extremely proud to receive this joint award.
“It’s fantastic that this unique partnership between Glen Tanar and Aboyne Academy has been recognised in this way. Our recent hospitality and tourism day (as well as our previous forestry days) aimed to show young school leavers an alternative route of investing in themselves and their future careers. It also gives them the opportunity to be involved in developing these vibrant growth industries – right here on their own doorstep.”
Aboyne Academy depute head teacher Michael Foy added:
“We were delighted to build on our already very strong partnership with Glen Tanar in delivering the hospitality and tourism day. Working closely with local business partners is a key part of preparing pupils for the world of work. Everyone involved was very positive about the experience. Pupils clearly felt they had a rewarding day, developing their knowledge of career opportunities in their local area, as well as focusing on some key employability skills.”
The pilot event was deemed a resounding success, and now with the prestigious award under their belts, both organisations are keen to retain and develop the relationship, seeking further collaboration on similar events in the future.