ABOUT PACT
The Development Of Positive Action Cariocca Training
The development of Cariocca Enterprises had been a major success, but its establishment had only achieved part of the WIOCC's aim of encouraging entrepreneurial attitudes in the black community. The continuance of this task was now transferred to Cariocca.
It wasn't long before Cariocca realised that the decision of many entrepreneurs to establish their own business had been based on their personal expertise and experience in a range of professional, administrative and management occupations. Cariocca recognised that these 'white collar' occupations were not only a valuable training ground for many wishing to start up their own businesses in later life, but were also skill areas where very few young black people were being offered training. Cariocca identified the provision of training opportunities as an effective and very specific way of:-
- helping young black people to contribute to their own economic well-being
- increasing the skills base within the black community.
Cariocca was determined to establish an agency dedicated to the training of young black people. As inequality of educational opportunity often meant that many young people had gained their basic qualifications some time after they had left school, it was felt to be important that any agency Cariocca set up would select trainees of a wider age range than other training schemes.
To pursue this line of development Cariocca Enterprises formed a training sub-committee. A report was commissioned by Cariocca Enterprises and the Commission for Racial Equality to look at Positive Action Training and how it might facilitate entry into management careers. This report established the rationale for the PACT training scheme.
Positive Action - Cariocca Training Ltd (PACT) was incorporated in June 1991. The first participants on the scheme started training. in the September of that year. PACT achieved charitable status in September 1994.
The Development of Cariocca Enterprises LtdCariocca Enterprises (Manchester) Ltd, with 111 workspace units, was opened in 1990. To date the complex has won the following awards:-
- The Community Enterprise Business Award, sponsored by United Biscuits (UK) Ltd.
- The Charles Douglas - Home Award for the most outstanding example of community enterprise.
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