Education & Youth Development
Part of the Ringley ethos is to create a nurturing working and learning enviornment in which staff can fulfill their potential while the Company gains from the flexibility needs to adapt tochanging times.
We extend this ethos to our interaction with the local community. We support work experience placements with students at local schools. They are encouraged to use the opportunity to develop and hone their ability to positively respond to work situations and not just complete a task but do it well and understand how their work integrates in an overall provision of service to our clients.
Students have placed across the range of departments at Ringley and those who excel in this nurturing environment have gone on to enjoy paid holiday work periods at our company.
Under 16´s
Ringley supports 6 local schools and offer Year 11 placements to GCSE students from all types of background. Typically our founder MD, Mary-Anne Bowring opens the programme and advises how students can get the most out of their 2 week placement at Ringley. Her passion, absolute belief that determination is the key to success are infectuos. Students are advised to develop their inquisitive skills to not do the task they are assigned but to find out how it fits into the bigger picture. Some past students have been offered follow on holiday work (PAID). Placements cover the disciplines of Finance, Property Management, Customer Services Administration, Legal Services.
16-18 year olds Westminster City Academy
Ringley works with Westminster City Academy and provides internships for 3 students each who attend for 10 consequtive weeks. These internees are assigned to Ringley´s Service & Operations Manager and get to see how the development of Ringley´s IT systems is improving its customer delivery and ease of access to information both via Ringley´s websites and internal staff.
Graduates & Undergraduates – technical work placements
Graduates interested in Surveying, Property or Law can request a 2 week subsistence based technical work placement at Ringley. Depending on the students background the type of technical support might include: analysis of caselaw, leases, company structures, auction transactions and property market indicators. Some students in the right place at the right time have moved on to a 4-8 week assignment shadowing a Property Manager.
Overseas Students UK Placements
Ringley was accepted by UK Placements who have the responsibility of matching overseas students to UK firms for the purposes of
(a) improving their business English and social interaction and
(b) understanding how a UK business operates in their chosen field. Ringley offer placements to students of IT, Mathematics, Law, Business Studies & MBA backgrounds.
Work with ARMA, RICS, IRPM, Universities
Ringley Director, Mary-Anne Bowring MBEng MRICS MIRPM sits as a Governor on the Institute of Residential Property Management.
Ringley Director, Stephen Gayer FIRPM, MRICS sits as a Governor on the Association of Residential Managing Agents
Ringley is currently involved in a programme with the RICS to change University courses and develop a module on occupier liabilities, commercial & residential.