Mint Bodyworks
(Formerly Joe's Autobox)
A Conversation with Joe
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Mint Bodyworks & Right Resolution CIC developed a Training Academy that gave young people leaving care the opportunity to learn key skills in the Vehicle Repair Industry. 
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What made you want to get involved with Right Resolution?
I wanted to help young people have a career and give them some life skills. What has the experience been like so far? It’s been hard at times - sometimes challenging, but worth it. You said it’s been hard, what’s made you want to keep wanting to help? My upbringing. I was 17 on my own so I know what it is like to have no parents because I had no parents. But it easier for me then to now because there is more peer pressure now. They pull on my heart strings and I just want to help them. If in 10 years, I can go to a body shop and see one of these lads in a skilled job I'd be proud because I’d know that we done that and it'll make it worth it. So if we can help a couple then we will. What value do you think work experience like this will add to a young care leavers future? Skills, it’s all about skills. Anything. Life skills, a talent, something you can specialise in. If you got a good trade, it works. Because we aren't all going to go to university, so it is important to have the skills to get into works. My dad said get a skill, you can leave the trade at any time and come back at any time. But, you just got to try. |
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"U-Pol, based in Denington Road where it makes products for the vehicle repair industry, has supplied a variety of tools to Joe’s Autobox Academy, which is a joint venture with Right Resolution Community Interest Company helping young people in the care system on to a career path"
Northants Telegraph |
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