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Honourable Lesley Hinds Lord Provost of
Edinburgh awarded Edinburgh Womens Training Course
and SummIT trainees their certificates at a graduation ceremony
at the City Chambers held on Wednesday 2 July Graduates have either completed a full academic year with EWTC or 12 weeks with SummIT. EWTC and SummIT are both projects under the Nisus umbrella. The event also marked the rebranding of the organisation and its new name. The organisation's new name will be Nisus Scotland, from nisus, the Latin word for effort in striving towards a goal. "The name sums up what the organisation offers our clients - a chance to strive towards their own personal goals, and allows us to attract more men to our services who were previously put off by our name," said centre director Susan Godfrey. The Centre was founded in 1986 as The Edinburgh Women's Training Centre by the then Edinburgh District Council. Jointly funded by the European Social Fund, the project has survived funding cuts and threats to its survival to maintain its IT skills vocational training to unemployed and socially disadvantaged people. |
Speeches were made by Councillor Lorna Shiels, (a recent recruit to the Nisus Scotland Board of Directors), Iris McMillan, (Chair od Nisus Scotlands Board of Directors), Susan Godfrey, (Director of Nisus Scotland), The Right Honorable Lesley Hinds, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and graduating trainee Carolann Roshier.
After the ceremony and photo session a buffet allowed graduating trainees, trainees guests, work placement providers, funders, staff and other attending supporters of Nisus Scotland to mingle and celebrate the event. |
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