Memorandum of Understanding
This memorandum of understanding ("MOU") is made on 7 November 2026 between:
- Northfield Community Trust, of 12 Mill Lane, Leeds LS1 4AB, United Kingdom ("the First Organisation"); and
- Riverside Technical College, of 80 College Road, Manchester M1 5GH, United Kingdom ("the Second Organisation").
Together they are "the Organisations".
1. Purpose
The purpose of this MOU is to offer work placements and mentoring to young people in the Leeds area who are training for a career in construction.
The Organisations record here how they intend to work together. They have reached this understanding in good faith and will deal with each other openly and respectfully.
2. What the cooperation covers
The Organisations intend to cooperate on the following.
Up to 30 placements a year of 6 to 12 weeks, monthly mentoring sessions, and two joint careers events a year
Nothing in this MOU stops either Organisation from working with others, unless the Organisations later agree otherwise in writing.
3. Roles
The First Organisation will take the following role.
Finds host employers, supervises placements and records each young person's progress
The Second Organisation will take the following role.
Selects and prepares students, keeps their records and gives them time off for placements
4. Contributions
The First Organisation intends to contribute the following.
Two part-time coordinators, meeting space and its network of employers
The Second Organisation intends to contribute the following.
A staff liaison, classroom space and training materials
Each Organisation will tell the other as early as it can if it will not be able to give a contribution it has described.
5. Costs
Each organisation pays its own costs. The joint careers events are paid in equal shares
No Organisation may commit the other to a cost without its written agreement. If the Organisations decide to share money, property or staff in a larger way, they will first sign a separate written agreement for it.
6. Timeline
This MOU starts on 1 January 2027 and, unless it is ended earlier under section 10, ends on 31 December 2028.
First placements start in April 2027
Review of results in December 2027
7. Governance and contacts
The Organisations name these contact persons. Each may replace its contact person by telling the other in writing.
- First Organisation: Priya Nair, Programme Manager, priya@northfield.example
- Second Organisation: Tom Hughes, Head of Employer Links, thughes@riverside.example
The contact persons will meet every two months, in person or by video call, to review progress, share information and settle practical questions. They may agree small changes in how the cooperation works, and will note them in writing. Each Organisation will take part in good faith, answer messages from the other within a reasonable time, and raise any concern early. Anything that changes the purpose, the roles or the costs needs a written amendment to this MOU signed by both Organisations.
If the contact persons cannot settle a question, they will pass it to the heads of the Organisations, who will meet within 30 days to try to settle it.
8. Confidentiality
8.1 Each Organisation will keep secret any information that the other gives it in connection with this MOU and that is marked confidential or is by its nature confidential. It will use it only for the cooperation, tell it only to staff and advisers who need it and who are bound to keep it secret, and protect it as carefully as it protects its own.
8.2 This does not apply to information that is or becomes public without a breach of this MOU, that the receiving Organisation already knew or learned lawfully from someone else, or that it must disclose by law or at the order of a court or authority. In that last case it will, where the law allows, tell the other Organisation first.
8.3 Personal data is shared only as far as the cooperation needs, and each Organisation will handle it in line with the data protection law that applies to it. If the Organisations will share personal data regularly, they will first sign a data sharing agreement.
8.4 This section continues for 3 years after this MOU ends.
9. Which parts bind
9.1 This MOU records the intentions of the Organisations. Except as stated in section 9.2, it is not a legally binding contract, it creates no partnership, joint venture or agency, and neither Organisation may speak or act for the other.
9.2 Only the following parts are legally binding. Section 8 (Confidentiality), section 9 (Which parts bind), the rule in section 5 that no Organisation may commit the other to a cost, section 10.3 (what happens when this MOU ends), and section 11 (Law and disputes).
9.3 Each Organisation keeps all rights in the names, logos, materials and other intellectual property it brings. Neither may use the other's name or logo in public without written permission, except as the Organisations agree in writing.
Each organisation may name the other as a partner in its annual report.
10. Term and ending
10.1 This MOU runs for the term in section 6. The Organisations may extend it by a written note signed by both.
10.2 Either Organisation may end this MOU early by giving 30 days' written notice to the other. It may do so for any reason. It may also end it at once by written notice if the other Organisation seriously breaches a binding clause, or can no longer carry on its activities.
10.3 When this MOU ends, the Organisations will finish or hand over any work that is already under way in an orderly way, return or delete the other's confidential information when asked, and each bear their own costs. The binding clauses continue as far as they are meant to.
11. Law and disputes
The binding clauses of this MOU are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The Organisations will first try to settle any disagreement about this MOU by discussion in good faith for 30 days after one of them gives written notice of it.
The place for deciding any dispute under this agreement is Leeds. How disputes about the binding clauses are decided
This section applies only to the binding clauses. A disagreement about the non-binding parts is settled by discussion under section 7.
12. Reporting and public statements
The Organisations will each keep simple records of what they do under this MOU, and will share a short written summary of progress at least once a year, with what has been achieved, what has not, and what they suggest changing. Neither Organisation will make a public announcement about this MOU, apart from what the law requires, without first giving the other a chance to read and agree the words, which will not be unreasonably withheld.
13. General
This MOU is the whole understanding of the Organisations on its subject and replaces earlier talks about it. It may be signed in separate copies and electronically, and together they form one document.
Signatures
For the First Organisation: Northfield Community Trust
Name and title: ______________
Signature: ______________
Date: ______________
For the Second Organisation: Riverside Technical College
Name and title: ______________
Signature: ______________
Date: ______________