Special Projects
Family Employment Initiative
The Family Employment Initiative is a partnership project, working with families and individuals. We can provide ‘one to one’ support and help you find suitable training and employment. If there are things that prevent you from finding work you could benefit from talking to us. We offer a completely free, confidential, no obligation service. Working together we can develop a realistic personal plan that will assist you to get a job, and be better off. We understand that people have different needs.
We will do our very best to help you by:
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Finding you a job you want
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Using our computers to help you write your CV
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Completing application forms
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Help to attend an interview
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Advising you how a job will affect your benefits
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Helping you claim tax credits and child care tax credits
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Supporting you to get training you need for a job
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Helping with travel costs
If you want to find out more, then please contact the Community Employment Advisors on: Tel: 01623 744 400
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‘Communities that Work!’ Programme
This programme built on the Trust’s strengths over the first two funding rounds (1999-2005) in terms of knowledge, understanding of coalfield communities and targeting resources appropriately. It also responded to both community demands and stakeholder expectations to make a real and lasting change at a neighbourhood level in severely deprived former mining communities.
We developed the Communities that Work! programme to make coalfield communities a better place to live, work and learn. Our approach was to work at a neighbourhood level in areas that would benefit from an integrated effort from the Trust via delivery partners and other local organisations and the focus was very much on bringing about measurable economic and social transformation.
The Trust had three “Communities that Work!” Special programmes in operation, at Higher Folds in the North West and Haswell in the North East and part of Rother Ward, Chesterfield East Midlands.
The first two areas are in predominantly peripheral/rural locations whereas the East Midlands location covered only part of a larger Ward.
“Rother” provided an ideal platform to see how the programme objectives as a direct comparison can be implemented in an urban location.
While not an exact science, the criteria to identify a Communities that Work! Area included:
· Demonstrable need for intervention evidenced by ranking on ID2004
· A clear indication that the area is a funding ‘cold spot’
· Low levels of voluntary sector infrastructure
· Low levels of community capacity to create support for projects.
· A clear assessment how the Trust could add value to transform the area
· Opportunities for partnerships with other funders and delivery partners
· Potential for demonstration and learning
· Potential for sustainability of the programme, via partners, post CRT funding
The Communities that Work! programme was a new approach for the Trust and we have learnt some valuable lessons. The programme was evaluated throughout by by Trust staff and externally by Tribal HCH.
One of the key lesson we have learned is that by listening to local residents, talking not about grants but about needs, and responding in a co-ordinated way both directly and through delivery partners to address not one or two, but a range of issues, the Trust can contribute to a positive step change to the lives of people living in coalfield communities.
For a generic booklet click here
To view Rother Communities That Work newsletters click on Issue One, Two or Three