On 8th October 2017, The Zygos Partnership will be 15.1 years old, and we will be celebrating by running 15.1 miles*  through the Royal Parks of London.  We will be taking part in the Royal Parks Half to support Resurgo Spear, a non-for-profit organisation which runs pre-employment training programmes for disadvantaged 16 - 24 year olds.  Spear equips young people with the hard skills they need to find a job, including CV writing and interview training.  Their approach tackles the attitudinal and behavioural issues that employers cite as major barriers to long-term success in their young recruits, and each Spear attendee leaves with increased confidence and skills to find work.  Spear’s work is very effective: 75% of those who complete the programme not only get into work or further training, but are still there a year later.

For the past three years we have been proudly supporting Spear in their outstanding work.  We’ve had the privilege of getting to know Spear students though practice interview sessions, we’ve run an afternoon of work shadowing for a Spear programme group, and we employed a Spear apprentice in 2015.  We’ve also raised money to support Spear in running their programmes, and with your help we’d love to do more.  It costs £1,500 for each student to participate on a Spear course so the target we’ve set ourselves to raise in this half marathon is £6,000, which will enable each Zygos runner to sponsor one student through a course.

We are very grateful to you for all of your support of The Zygos Partnership and of each of us over the years, and we’d be so grateful if you would join us in celebrating Zygos passing the 15.1 milestone by supporting Spear.  

When you donate, you’ll be prompted to leave a comment if you wish.  If you would like to, to motivate us further, please leave us a comment reflecting on how getting your first job made you feel.  

With our sincere thanks

*the eagle eyed may spot that the Royal Parks Half is 13.1 miles; we'll be clocking up the extra couple of miles in our final training run earlier that week.