JLR inspires more youngsters

Last year's achievement includes 226,000 young people who participated in schools 'Challenge' projects, 100,000 of whom participated in the Jaguar Maths in Motion Challenge alone, and more than 80,000 through outreach activities including secondary school partnership and careers events including Big Bang. More than 21,500 students visited JLR's Education Business Partnership Centres at its five UK design, engineering and manufacturing facilities and 767 participated in work experience. More than 2,600 JLR employees spent 11,251 hours supporting school visits, challenges and outreach events during 2013. The company's employees have visited more than 300 schools over the past years, including the local secondary schools its Midlands and Merseyside sites have long-term partnerships with as part of BITC's Business Class programme. Jonathan Garrett, CSR director at JLR, said: "It is critical that we attract talented young people to become the next generation of engineers and technologists to support our ambitious growth plans. I am delighted we achieved such huge growth in our education engagement last year which feeds young people into our talent pipeline."