Make your Mark with new youth scheme

Youth unemployment in the UK recently reached record levels, with one in five 16-24 year olds in the labour force currently struggling to find a job.

In NI alone, 17 stores including Sprucefield have been offered the opportunity to take part in Make Your Mark, current figures show that there are more than one in five unemployed young people.

Make Your Mark offers a training and job placement programme designed to address the skills and experience gap that prevents young people from finding work. From today, 19 young people aged between 16 and 24 from NI will begin their inductions and placements at the M&S Lisburn and Bow Street Mall Simply Food store.

Martina Milburn, chief executive of Prince’s Trust, said: “There are hundreds of thousands of young people who are currently struggling to find a job. Make Your Mark is to help young people furthest from the jobs market.”