Join the 360 partnership
Meet your own organisational objectives at the same time as helping to prepare the next generation for life, not just exams.
Let's ensure every young person is prepared for life, not just exams
There is growing recognition that young people should be prepared for life, not just exams. Funded by major partners, and in consultation with teachers and topic experts, our unique VR Skill City with support for in school and outdoor learning tackles this challenge head on. Find out how your organisation can be part of this and benefit too.
A unique learning experience
Experience Skill City, our unique VR environment, bringing to life real world safeguarding dilemmas in realistic but safe scenarios.
Partnership enquiries…
We believe our programmes are unique, delivering interactive and innovative teacher-led learning. Online, In school and Outdoors. Our Skill City virtual world is the start of this journey for students – where they learn in an immersive, interactive, safe and fun true-to-life world.
- Online. A 360 virtual reality Skill City where learners are presented with dilemmas where they discuss, decide, do and then deliberate on consequences. Our technology recognises the limitations of many schools’ IT systems and is designed for whiteboards and laptops.
- In-school. Support for teachers to embed skills for life learning across the curriculum and in every year group.
- Outdoors. Support to use the local area near schools for extended and practical ‘Learning Outside the Classroom’.
The benefits of being a 360 partner
As a not-for-profit Community Interest Company, we rely on securing significant support from partners including financial, in-kind expertise or providing us with resources. Join a growing, flexible and constantly improving partnership and:
We are looking for both public and private sector partners who share our passion and values to help young people develop their life skills. In particular, we’re looking for organisations that can:
- Make a grant or other direct funding to develop our programmes, new VR scenarios and in-school resources (£30,000 upwards depending on scope).
- Collaborate on joint funding bids for future programmes.
- Provide subject expertise, content and advice. Potentially provide resource to deliver in-school visits.
- Help with networking, contacts and new ideas.
- Work with us to develop new programmes, enhance existing ones and provide resources.
- Enable us to manage our business more effectively, perhaps through marketing and PR, delivery systems and back-office support.
- Sponsor local school(s) memberships to increase the reach of our programmes.
Supported by our trusted partners including:
Interested in partnering with us? Register your interest today!
What they say...
"360 gives children the tools and confidence they will need to make positive decisions in everyday life."
Teacher and Eco Lead, Dorset
“I like the 360 commitment to anytime, anywhere access, which is particularly relevant now.”
Head Teacher, Dorset
"The online approach, coupled with strong partnerships for face to face delivery as well, makes this concept invaluable."
Police & Crime Commissioner (Retired), Senior Lecturer (forensics)
"A user-friendly resource that offers scope to move away from didactic teaching and to explore ‘real life’ challenges and potential consequences."
MAT Safeguarding Manager, Hereford
“Yeah I like the way you can walk around the whole city and it’s not limited to one thing and after you finish the missions you can walk around and do what you like."
Pupil, 11, Northern Ireland
"360 will allow individual agencies to combine their good work and raise the bar in delivery of safety and wellbeing interventions.”
Schools Liaison Officer, Police Service Northern Ireland
“It’s very fun because there are multiple choices and based on your options it can go a different way.”
Pupil, 11, Northern Ireland
"360 gives access to a whole learning environment in a cost effective way which Local Government should support."
Chief Executive Officer, Dorset Council
“I like it because it teaches you lessons with having fun doing it.”
Pupil, 11, Northern Ireland
"Situations and scenarios are up to date. The product really does appeal to young people and is very user friendly."
Education Challenge Lead, Dorset Council
“It’s like a game and you have pick the right decisions in real life situations but it’s fun at the same time.”
Pupil, 11, Northern Ireland
"The 360 platform enables teachers and leaders to engage young people and to highlight scenarios in a safe environment."
MD, First Bus Hampshire, Dorset & Berkshire
'The missions were so useful because they helped us make good decisions.'
Pupil, 11, Northern Ireland
"Given the pandemic, equipping young people to be independent critical thinkers with the confidence to respond to situations in everyday life is even more vital."
360 Director & former CEO at Hazard Alley Safety Centre
'360 is really cool. It is super realistic and helps me to understand what to do when something like happens in real life.'
Pupil, 11, Northern Ireland
“The platform provides teaching staff with an opportunity to address challenging safeguarding issues with pupils in a safe environment and to open up discussions on difficult topics that equip learners with critical information on how to keep safe.”
Co-Founder & Chief Safeguarding Officer at The Safeguarding Company (My Concern)
'We didn't have a clue how to play at first, but then we showed our teacher what to do! It was lots of fun!'
Pupil, 11, Northern Ireland
"By young people working through scenarios that could be affecting their lives, it helps to improve their understanding of potential risks, consequences and ...decision making to enable them to make choices to keep safe and well".
Assistant Director of Nursing and Safeguarding and Regional Safeguarding Lead at NHS England
'A child asked if we could do 360 again as soon as he came in the next morning, highlighting just how much the programme motivates P7 boys in particular.'
Primary teacher, Northern Ireland
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