RCVision CIC
22/05/2026
On Wednesday at BMW Group MINI Plant Oxford, 40 young people from across OX4 came together to race the 1/10 scale electric RC MINI cars they’ve been building together over recent months through the RC Vision CIC community STEM programme.
900 laps of racing. Countless laughs. Brilliant teamwork. Amazing looking cars. And a huge amount learned together.
These projects are about far more than RC racing. They create opportunities for young people to problem solve, collaborate, adapt, communicate and build confidence through doing something real together.
Proud of every young person involved and hugely grateful to the teachers, youth workers and brilliant team at MINI Plant Oxford for helping make days like this possible.
What a day at BMW Group MINI Plant Oxford.
Today, 40 young people from schools across Oxford and Oxfordshire Youth came together to race the 1/10 scale electric RC MINI cars they have been designing, building, repairing and preparing together over recent months through the RC Vision CIC x BMW community STEM programme.
The results? Nearly 900 laps of racing, brilliant teamwork, problem-solving, crashes, fixes, laughter, resilience and some genuinely stunning looking RC MINI builds.
But this project has never just been about racing.
It’s about giving young people hands-on opportunities to explore engineering, technology, teamwork and creative thinking in a way that feels real. Learning by doing. Learning through mistakes. Learning together.
Many of the young people involved come from communities underrepresented in STEM and engineering. Watching them take ownership of the cars, solve problems under pressure and proudly represent their schools today was something special.
Huge thanks to the brilliant team at MINI Plant Oxford for believing in the vision and helping create opportunities like this for local young people.
This is what STEM engagement can look like when it’s practical, collaborative and genuinely fun.
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Kyosho Europe
15/05/2026
We are very grateful to Danny Beales for Uxbridge & South Ruislip and team for their support for our work together with West London Racing Centre. (WLRC) The home of touring car racing 🙏
"I was amazed by what I saw!"
Last month RC Vision took the track to the 19th floor of City Hall, hosted by the Right Worshipful the Lord Mayor of Westminster. In the room: employers, academics, educators, youth organisations and young people — all there to see what our sport can do.
The Lord Mayor had a go on the track himself. He described himself as "absolutely useless." We thought he did alright.
But here's what actually made the evening: a group of young people from Westminster stood up in front of a room full of city leaders and explained — clearly, calmly and from their own experience — why hands-on, practical learning changes how you see yourself and what you think you're capable of.
That's what RC Vision is about. And that's what this film captures.
Watch it. And if you're proud of what RC racing can be, please share it.
29/04/2026
Delighted to confirm the first school team joining KOC26 with two cars entering the Talent Cup...ACS International Egham in Surrey.
Followers of RC Vision will know ACS as the people running the Thorpe Park STEM activities day we've attended the last few years. The aim of ACS is to get a race team going and make it available to partner schools in their community - the first group of students have been building Yokomo RS2's ready to come and start racing with us ✊
The team have set up an instagram - give then a follow:
26/04/2026
A 15-year-old stood up in front of the Lord Mayor of Westminster this week and said something every employer, commissioner and school in the country needs to hear.
“Not knowing and staying open to opportunities is more powerful than sticking to one path.”
That was Mehgun. Year 11. Standing in City Hall — on the same day Alan Milburn published his report on NEETism, which found that soft skills and career readiness in schools are going backwards.
She'd never thought of herself as a future engineer until a skills quiz at an RC car racing event showed her that her instincts, her creativity, her problem-solving — these were engineering skills. She's now aiming to be a design engineer. Possibly in F1.
This is exactly what RC Vision was built to do. Not to teach STEM. To help young people discover who they already are — and give them a language for it.
We're grateful to the Lord Mayor for hosting us at City Hall, to London Tigers for bringing Munty and Osama to the room, and to our three young people who spoke with more clarity and confidence than most adults I know.
The Westminster 500 is now live. Our goal: reach 500 young people across Westminster in the next 12 weeks. If you commission, fund, employ or teach in this city — I'd love a conversation.
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