BOBS Skills
Health + Creativity + Community = Wellbeing
BOBS Skills has been developed from our Being Our Best Selves programme, delivering sessions in further education settings since 2022. Most recently, we expanded this programme to reach young people in secondary education and people seeking employment, education, and training in the community.
Our delivery model offers bespoke, flexible BOBS Skills sessions, responding directly to needs, and budgets and offering the opportunity to tailor sessions to targeted groups facing specific challenges.
Each session is interactive, engaging and led by a team of trained BOBS Coaches who bring a variety of personalities, skills and experiences ranging from the arts, sports, community and public sectors.
The Aims
The BOBS Skills programme tackles real and significant challenges which are faced by a growing number of people, including:
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Lost/disrupted learning
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Low self-esteem and confidence
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Poor social skills
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Lack of resilience
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Mental and physical health pressures
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Concerns for the future
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Lack of vocational and practical skills and meaningful encounters with employers or professionals
A wall of aspirations, goals and positive thoughts about what is important to young people
BOBS Coaches leading a warm up exercise for further education students
Young people taking a moment for reflection with BOBS Coaches
A wall of aspirations, goals and positive thoughts about what is important to young people
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BOBS Skills in Schools
In November 2024, Culture Shift was commissioned to deliver a 6 week course of BOBS Skills sessions at Hailsham Community College with Year 11 Students. Students were selected to participate on the basis of limited self belief and aspirations, poor attendance and motivation in lessons, aiming to test the value of the programme to students in a secondary school environment.
97.3% of students rated their experience of BOBS sessions 5 out of 5
'BOBS is the single-most impactful intervention I have seen in the college in the 15+ years that I have worked here'
[Safeguarding Lead, Hailsham Community College]
BOB SKILLS in Further Education
In January 2022, Culture Shift delivered a series of BOBS Skills pilot sessions, extending the existing BOBS model into Further Education settings addressing the criteria of the Catch Up Fund. To be eligible learners must be aged 16-18 and have achieved up to a grade 4 in GCSE English and/or Maths or aged 19-24 with an education, health and care plan (EHCP).
Click here for a summary of the BOBS Skills Pilot in Further Education settings
Following this successful pilot, BOBS SKILLS has since been delivered in Further education colleges across Sussex, including Chichester College, Northbrook College, Worthing College, Crawley College, Brinsbury College and East Sussex College - Lewes, Eastbourne and Ore campuses, reaching 940 number of students.