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ESF Community Grants - LCR Round 1 Funded Projects Organisation Local Project Name Brief Description Name Authority Apex Charitable Plan Bee St Helens Education, work experience and job focused skills to offenders and ex-offenders. To enable Trust positive, lasting changes and support our clients to be the best they can be. Learn Today, Bee Wirral Teach Wirral Support learners to gain a Level 3 qualification in Education and Training, enabling them to Tomorrow become tutors for an agency, PAYE employed or self-employed. Creative To encourage residents to improve their health and life skills by participating in a range of Community Health Halton activities including nutrition and healthy eating workshops, creative and craft activities and Workshops Initiatives community events Introduction to filmmaking on a 1-day course. 20 will go on to complete an Open Awards certified 5-day course covering basic filmmaking skills and 10 will complete a further 20 day course, First Take Film Futures Liverpool learning specialised skills in camera, sound, directing, editing; working in both drama and documentary. Hospitality & Visitor Florence Economy Liverpool Hospitality/Visitor Economy Training. Work experience and/or qualifications in: white badge Institute Training tourism, bar tending, catering, food hygiene, customer service, H&S, event hosting, customer Programme service, front of house experience. Granby Somali Support women with learning difficulties from the Somali and BME community residing in the A Digital Start Women's Liverpool Princes Park Ward to gain digital skills. It will introduce and increase their digital skills to enable Group them to apply for employment opportunities and enhance their self-confidence. To help economically inactive people in St Helens who find themselves impacted with poor mental Halton & St Firm health to build their confidence, resilience along with working with them to identify their priority Helens VCA Foundations St Helens values, key strengths and skills in order to create meaning and motivation for personal development and where possible, employment. New Skills, Pre-employment programme for BAMER communities to increase confidence/self-awareness, Kaalmo Youth New Outlook, identify their strengths, transferable skills and personal goals and support the development of Development New work-related skills in the areas of English, ICT, and job search/CV writing and the interview Opportunities Liverpool process. Kensington A “pick and mix” of suitable training courses, and supported drop-in facilities, to help improve the Pick and Mix Community employment prospects and progression options of unemployed people: Courses will include: ESOL for Learning Liverpool with basic IT leading to accredited qualifications ESOL for employability IT / CVs / Interview skills Employment Centre for all. Knowsley The BIG Disability Pathway Core Knowsley To support adults with learning disabilities to improve their core skills (Maths and English), build Concern Skills self-confidence, manage behaviour and generally prepare for the world of work. Liverpool The Back-Kitchen Project offers members the opportunity to gain a recognised qualification in The Back Homeless food safety and hygiene. It enables people who may not have been in formal education or training Kitchen Liverpool Football Club for a long time to regain confidence in their ability, to learn new skills, gain work experience and succeed. High-quality, relevant, responsive, motivation and interpersonal skills training to adults, to Pathways 2 support them on their pathway to employment, Pre-employment training, volunteering or further LSCP Work education. These skills will enable individuals to become more participative, motivated, Liverpool employable and active citizens in their communities Mencap To significantly improve the life-chances of 24 people by teaching them to travel independently and by doing so, reduce their social isolation; improve their mental well-being; develop Liverpool & Travel for Life Liverpool Sefton confidence, social skills and self-belief; as well as giving them skills to access employment, & Sefton education, health & leisure opportunities. Moving on with Life & Art in Motion Liverpool Art in Motion is a creative and multimedia project equipping individuals to enhance their potential Learning to develop an inclusive social enterprise Employability skills development and access to employment through barrier removal support to Netherton the target cohorts; using a personalised ‘strengths’ progression approach for participants so Park Positive Me improving: harder (basic) work-readiness skills; relevant softer skills (confidence, motivation, self- Community esteem and social integration); transition to progression opportunities through facilitated direct Association Sefton work/volunteering/training opportunities. A series of accredited and unaccredited training courses in personal development, setting-up as One Latin Creative a freelance creative artist and gaining skills in multiple aspects of being self-employed, which will Culture Futures Liverpool include group learning, coaching & mentoring and production of a personal e-portfolio, with participants learning through real-life examples Bridging the Gap for Halton A participant-led 13-week programme of targeted support activities and structured training to Open 360 Halton Young help vulnerable young women/single parents across Halton who have been disadvantaged by Mums early and/or teenage pregnancy to overcome multiple barriers to education and employment, as well as reduce their financial dependency on an increasingly challenging benefits’ system Perspective The Future is Liverpool To help a group of women deeply entrenched in crime and the criminal justice system back into Theatre Yours education, employment and/or training and help change their aims and aspirations. To support female ex-offenders to be motivated and inspired to think about moving into Moving Rotunda ABC employment or self-employment, and to give them the tools required to take the first steps to Forward Liverpool achieving their employment goals. 6-month programme for BME disadvantaged adults experiencing social isolation, long term unemployment and/or mental health difficulties. Supporting employability via creative and Creatively Sola Arts cultural industries. Using arts, horticulture and mental wellbeing as vehicles for self-confidence Confident functional skills, employability and creative skills to inspire motivation moving forward in career Liverpool development. To offer a nurturing, supporting learning environment that helps build the confidence, resilience Spider Beyond the and social capital and enhance the employment and life prospects of some of the most Project Label Wirral disenfranchised & vulnerable members of our community. Our aim is simple, to help people become the very best that they can be. Food Biz gives women the skills, confidence and inspiration to take the next steps into Squash Womens employment specifically within the food/hospitality industry. Building on participants Nutrition Food Biz enthusiasms it supports women to explore pathways for progression within the food economy. Liverpool Food Biz is uniquely devised and led by experienced successful female food entrepreneurs To build confidence and develop skills of the unemployed WB/BRM people in our Sustainability Media Kensington/Anfield community for better chances for jobs/small business development and Development Content Skills education progression opportunity, in order to achieve improved financial independence and Liverpool support economic growth. Transform Lives GiveGetGo To support long-term unemployed people into or closer to employment through a structured company Liverpool programme of supported volunteering in prestigious venues, underpinned by our Positive Workology training programme, mentoring, coaching and quality employer ‘mentor’ volunteers. An accredited Employability Skills programme for unemployed individuals including; people who Next Steps Utopia suffer from depression and anxiety and women looking to make positive changes in their lives. A Programme core element of the programme will focus on personal and social development to gain and Wirral improve transferable life skills. To address inequality and improve employment/self-employment and training opportunities for Voice of Journey To 20 unemployed/ economically inactive women aged 19-60 in Liverpool by delivering bespoke 1- Nations Success 2-1 intensive mentoring/ coaching and employability sessions to empower/ support them get into Liverpool training, volunteering, employment, and/or generate business ideas/ start-up businesses. DO IT- Developing To improve the learning, development and employment chances of women in the Merseyside WHISC Ourselves, area who face barriers to achieving by increasing knowledge and skills, building confidence and Inspiring Liverpool providing practical experience in a working environment, with the opportunity to take NVQ Together Level 2 Customer Service Skills Moving Foreword, Writing on To support writers and artists to gain experience and next step support into employment, with New Writers the Wall focusing on the writing sector, through an intensive professional development programme Development Liverpool designed to develop Liverpool’s next generation of writers by giving them both creative Programme inspiration and practical support to enhance their business skills and acumen. Round 2 Funded Projects Organisation