by Hannah Danson | 27 Nov 2018 | Employment and skills, Funding and grants |
Pathways into Construction is a new funding stream managed by Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), covering NEETs, Long term unemployed, service leavers and women. A total of £5m is available to reduce skills shortages in the construction sector, and the...
by Hannah Danson | 30 Oct 2018 | Children and young people, Education and training, Employment and skills |
CSW has been given £3.8m of ESF funding to support over 3,000 unemployed and inactive young people (aged 15-24), to explore skills and career aspirations. This project, to be known as Ambitions, will enhance the existing careers service in Cornwall and the Isles of...
by Hannah Danson | 7 Sep 2018 | Culture and recreation, Employment and skills, Environment and nature, Funding and grants, Older people |
Various funding opportunities are open at present, including extended funding for the Tommies silhouettes to commemorate the end of the First World War, solve the problem of litter, develop an employer-led skills project, and care for older carers. World War...
by Hannah Danson | 4 Sep 2018 | Advice advocacy and legal, Employment and skills |
The Home Office has published a communications toolkit, to help employers and service providers support EU citizens around the EU Settlement Scheme. The toolkit is now live on the Gov.uk website. The practical, ready-made communications materials includes: Briefing...
by Hannah Danson | 23 Aug 2018 | Employment and skills, Public sector |
The Child Poverty Action Group has produced a report that shows a further series of problems with Universal Credit, in particular for working families. It says that the system fails to understand how and when people are getting paid. In some cases, the...
by Hannah Danson | 10 Aug 2018 | Children and young people, Education and training, Employment and skills |
The following press release has been issued by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Growth Programme, on behalf of CSW. Cornwall 15-24 year olds Not in Employment, Education or Training urged to take advantage of £1.1 million to develop skills and progress onto a range of...
by Hannah Danson | 1 Aug 2018 | Employment and skills |
Jobcentre Plus would like to work with partners to improve the employment prospects of individuals facing complex barriers. We are looking for imaginative and innovative proposals from organisations to support individuals with criminal convictions. This opportunity...
by Hannah Danson | 26 Jul 2018 | Employment and skills, Health care and wellbeing |
A campaign to inform and educate employers around dyslexia in the workplace has won a national award recently. With 1 in 10 experiencing some level of dyslexia, the British Dyslexia Association developed a campaign using facial detection technology, in conjunction...
by Hannah Danson | 21 Jun 2018 | Employment and skills |
The Government’s Youth Obligation Scheme, to help young people into work through the Jobcentres, has been branded a ‘dead duck’ in the press. The scheme was designed for new claimants to Universal Credit aged 18-21, and who fall into the ‘All...
by Hannah Danson | 5 Apr 2018 | Education and training, Employment and skills, Environment and nature |
People and Gardens is 20 years old this summer, having set up on 3 June 1998, with the aim of modelling to other businesses the benefits of employing people with learning disabilities. Since then, P&G has employed over 150- people with disabilities who have moved...
by Hannah Danson | 23 Feb 2018 | Employment and skills, Equality and diversity |
Local MP and Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, Sarah Newton, is encouraging more retailers to realise the benefits of employing disabled people as the government launches a new campaign to get retailers to sign up to its trail-blazing Disability Confident...
by Hannah Danson | 30 Jan 2018 | Advice advocacy and legal, Employment and skills |
Trek West is a project run by Disability Cornwall, supporting people with long term health conditions or disabilities to take control of their lives, and build confidence and skills. The team can support anyone who is receiving Employment Support Allowance, Job...
by Hannah Danson | 30 Jan 2018 | Employment and skills |
Cornwall School for Social Entrepreneurs is continuing their rolling series of workshops for new and emerging social enterprises, their Engine Room Programme. These EU funded workshops will run at the Heath and Wellbeing Centre, Treliske, Truro, and are a rolling...
by Hannah Danson | 16 Jan 2018 | Employment and skills |
Various organisations are offering work opportunities, or placements, for those, particularly young poeple, currently out of work locally. Reed Work Routes event Reed are running a Redruth Work Routes Open Day, on Friday 19 January, in the Gateway Busienss Centre,...
by Hannah Danson | 11 Jan 2018 | Education and training, Employment and skills |
Coastline work placements Coastline work placements, starting in February, for people not in employment, in various roles within the organisation, some part time, some full time. Awareness event at Cornwall College Camborne, on Tuesday 13 Feb, 11-1. More information...
by Hannah Danson | 10 Jan 2018 | Employment and skills |
Volunteer Cornwall have announced that the funding for the VIVA project has been extended until 2019. VIVA is a project designed to support vulnerable people (aged 16 and above) into volunteering. Since starting in 2008, VIVA has helped 422 vulnerable adults into...
by Hannah Danson | 4 Jan 2018 | Education and training, Employment and skills |
Active Plus are running their Who Dares Works courses, for people over 18 who are not in work, and would like some support to get into work, education or training. The courses include mentor support, as well as a variety of extra help for those who need it, covering...
by Hannah Danson | 13 Dec 2017 | Employment and skills |
Plymouth mind working in Cornwall are inviting interested parties to apply to become stakeholders of the PONToon project Stakeholders will be organisations that work in Cornwall with women aged 18-35 from the following 3 target subgroups: women who do not currently...
by Hannah Danson | 12 Dec 2017 | Employment and skills |
Action Planning, a specialist consultancy for charities and other third sector organisations, has published an interesting article about how to recruit trustees. Worth reading in full, the main point is that Trustees shouldn’t be picked on the basis of...
by Hannah Danson | 27 Nov 2017 | Children and young people, Employment and skills, Housing and related services, Public sector |
The Government is currently running a series of consultations on a variety of subjects. If your organisation has an interest in any of these areas, you should ensure that your voice is heard in the conversation. In order of closing date: Employment support for Carers...
