One year of career services at CentreStage

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Ahead of Scottish Careers Week, Skills Development Scotland are celebrating a year of successful careers support after their Kilmarnock career services moved home.

In November 2023, the service relocated into arts venue CentreStage and the move has boosted support, employability and learning opportunities for locals.As a result, the change has created stronger links with other services in the venue that has helped more people access and benefit from careers information, advice and guidance.The former Kilmarnock Academy, CentreStage is an impressive and imposing historic building that has been renovated and modernised to provide a vital facility at the heart of the community.A hive of activity, the venue hosts theatre productions and events, attracts creative, social and recreational groups, has a busy café and a shop.Termed a ‘Neighbourhood’, the venue is home to around 20 different organisations including Barclays Bank, Little Art School, East Ayrshire Homeless Prevention, Powerful African Women and creative arts education enterprise, Maddison Green.Skills Development Scotland (SDS) Team Leader for Kilmarnock, Vincent Logue said: “The move has been very positive.

There is a strong community and a real buzz and happy vibe at CentreStage that our team and customers enjoy.”The SDS team in CentreStage have now quickly forged close relationships with the other partners based in the ‘Neighbourhood’.Vincent explained: “What has been so great about the move to CentreStage is that it has given our team access to a number of other practitioners we can offer support to, for example Health and Third sector organisations.