by Hannah Danson | 12 Jun 2019 | Employment and skills |
Sources of ongoing support in jobseeking, including making adaptations for people with sight loss, or other disabilities. Rapid Response Funded work-focussed training for people who are facing or who have recently been made redundant is available from Jobcentre Plus....
by Hannah Danson | 6 Jun 2019 | Employment and skills |
June 28 will see thousands of organisations across the UK join the largest celebration for those supporting local people into work. ERSA (Employment Related Services Association) are organising this national day for the fourth time, giving employment support...
by Hannah Danson | 23 May 2019 | Employment and skills, Funding and grants |
Community Local Led Development (CLLD) is a unique European funding programme that provides ESF and ERDF funding through one mechanism – so a project can have access to both or either of the funding streams as suits. The project is focussing investment of £11.5m in...
by Hannah Danson | 10 Apr 2019 | Education and training, Employment and skills, Health care and wellbeing, Public sector |
Frontline Immigration Advice Project Refugee Action is running a Frontline Immigration Advice Project, which is offering high quality advice to vulnerable migrants, aiming to prevent injustice and destitution. The project trains advisers and supporting organisations...
by Hannah Danson | 26 Mar 2019 | Children and young people, Employment and skills |
Ambitions is a new project, set up by Careers South West and ESF funded. Its aim is to get young people 15-24 years old who are not in education or employment, back on to the path to employment, with a programme that is individualised to them. There are several...
by Hannah Danson | 14 Feb 2019 | Employment and skills, Health care and wellbeing |
The Department for Health and Social care has launched a national recruitment campaign called ‘Every day is different’. Their website has a quiz that could show if a person would suit a caring role, and examines different jobs in the sector. You can find out more on...
by Hannah Danson | 15 Jan 2019 | Children and young people, Education and training, Employment and skills, Funding and grants |
Rio are offering the following tender, for local organisations to provide services under the Game Changer funding. Deadline for submissions is 5pm on Monday 11 February. Game Changer is a £3.1 million project funded by the Big Lottery Fund and European Social Fund...
by Hannah Danson | 11 Jan 2019 | Employment and skills |
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service is running a 12-week Team programme, with The Prince’s Trust. The Team programme is for young people aged 16-25 who are unemployed, or out of education and training, enabling them to move into employment, education, training,...
by Hannah Danson | 10 Jan 2019 | Employment and skills |
Coastline Housing are offering an 8 week work placement for adults aged 19+ who are currently unemployed, but looking to work in construction. The first 2 weeks prepare participants to obtain their CSCS card, followed by 2 weeks of controlled practical, and then 3...
by Hannah Danson | 10 Jan 2019 | Community support, Employment and skills, Funding and grants, Health care and wellbeing |
These funding opportunities are closing soon CRCC’s Health and Wellbeing Grants A range of grants for groups and organisations who would like to help improve the health and wellbeing of people with care and support needs and their carers. Each grant listed...
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...
