Northamptonshire school goes behind the scenes at Amazon

Students from a new special educational needs school in Northamptonshire have enjoyed a tour of Amazon’s Daventry fulfilment centre.

Over five trips, 60 students from Chelveston Road School, which supports pupils with learning needs and autism, attended tours of the fulfilment centre to learn what happens when a customer clicks “buy”.

The tour was organised as part of Amazon Future Engineer, a comprehensive childhood-to-career programme aimed at increasing access to computer science education for students from underserved and underrepresented communities.

The guests received an insight into the various job roles throughout the fulfilment centre, and saw how Amazon stores, picks, packs and ships customer orders from the Daventry building.

Amazon Daventry by Site Leader, Josh Vause said:

“It was great to welcome pupils from Chelveston Road School to our site for a tour of operations at Amazon. We are passionate about supporting young people in our community in their learning and development through the Amazon Future Engineer programme, and we hope the students who visited us had a great and educational experience.”

Mark Adams, Head Teacher at Chelveston Road School added:

“We’d like to thank Josh and the Amazon team in Daventry for their support. Our students had a great time and made memories they will cherish for a long time.”

Community donations are just one of the ways Amazon supports the communities where it operates. Amazon has supported more than 500,000 students across the UK with free computer science and STEM education programmes through Amazon Future Engineer.

Amazon helps community organisations transport meals and other essentials to families in need through its pro bono logistics programme, Amazon Local Good, including more than seven million healthy breakfasts to children at risk of hunger in partnership with Magic Breakfast. And through its Multibank initiative, co-founded with former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Amazon has supported more than 200,000 families experiencing poverty, with the donation of more than 2 million surplus essential goods.

Amazon partners with Comic Relief to help people tackle poverty and is the official home of the charity’s iconic Red Nose. Together with its employees, customers, and partners, Amazon has raised over £4.8 million to fund projects that support people struggling with the cost-of-living crisis and tackle issues such as homelessness, mental health problems, and food insecurity across the UK, and around the world.