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A Building Better Opportunities Project

Dave Sternberg

Board Member Coventry & Warwickshire CDA

A Building Better Opportunities Project

Tamy Matanky

Strategic & Operations Manager Coventry & Warwickshire CDA

Accelerate aims to:

• Help those furthest from the labour market towards and into employment
• By providing the means through which disadvantaged people become job

ready

• And assisting participants to access learning, training and job opportunities
• We will enable participants to overcome barriers
• And support those with complex needs move closer to employment
• This will be achieved by providing a holistic package of support

Who is eligible?

Anyone who is legally entitled to work in the UK and is unemployed or economically inactive Some key target groups include:

• People who are 50+
• People with disabilities
• People from ethnic minority communities

People who are in work or self employed or not entitled to work in the UK are not eligible

What we aim to achieve?

• We will support at least 890 people
• At least 116 participants move into training/education
• utside of the project
• At least 116 move into employment/self employment
• At least 144 people who were economically inactive when

joining programme take up regular job search activity

What we aim to achieve?

Participants

• feel more confident and have a more positive outlook about their work

prospects

• have a clearer understanding of the world of work, what is available in the

labour market and employers expectations

• improve skills and overcome specific barriers
• gain more awareness of services available and become more proactive in

seeking out relevant support

• who are poorly represented in the labour market obtain employment
• pportunities through new approaches to job creation

Accelerate Principles

Holistic Support Tailored to the needs of the individual Geographically accessible Ensuring participants access full range of services Commitment to Gender Equality and Environmental Sustainability

Importance of Partnership

Accelerate has been designed by a 23 member Partnership and developed taking into account consultation with 264 potential participants It pulls together key third sector organisations and local authorities who have many years experience working locally with the target group It builds on the expertise and experience of the partners involved It involves organisations which have a track record of delivering in the community and have trusted relationships with community members Participants will be able to access services from a range of partners during their time on the programme Together the partnership will provide high quality holistic support

Accelerate Model

Participants can enter at any point

Engagement:

• Participants can access Accelerate via any partner

Journey Planning and Guidance:

• All participants will have a designated Journey Guide supporting them

throughout their time on the project with action planning, mentoring and access to project services, training and employment Confidence Building:

• Participants will be supported to choose from the project's confidence

building programmes

Accelerate Model

Skills Enhancement and Enterprise:

• IT, Literacy, Numeracy, ESOL, short courses in a range of subjects,

enterprise support Barrier Breaking:

• Childcare and travel expenses while on the project, small centralised

barrier breaking budget

• Range of barrier breaking support and services

Opportunity Connector: Connecting participants and partners across the programme

Accelerate Model

Journey Guidance

All participants will have a key worker, providing employment advice, job search support, CV development and supporting participants to access support from across the partnership.

• Groundwork West Midlands (Coventry)
• Watch (Coventry)
• CDA (Warwickshire)
• Action for Blind People
• Warwickshire CC (WEST) (learning

difficulties)

• Grapevine (learning difficulties)
• Heart of England Mencap (learning

difficulties)

• Hereward College (physical

disabilities)

• Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre
• Foleshill Women’s Training (BAME

Women)

Work Experience

Work tasters, longer term work placements, volunteer placements

• Private sector-multiple opportunities: Coventry City Council
• Volunteering, community projects: Voluntary Action Coventry
• Catering, woodworking, gardening, admin, elder care volunteering:

Volunteer Centre North Warwickshire, Volunteer Centre Nuneaton and Bedworth

• Coffee shop, retail: Coventry Cyrenians
• Cleaning, translation services, housing services: Coventry Refugee and

Migrant Centre

Skills Development

Accredited and non accredited training

• Digital inclusion for people who have visual impairment (Action for Blind

People)

• Basic IT: New Bilton Community Association, Foleshill Women’s Training,

Volunteer Centre North Warwickshire, Volunteer Centre Nuneaton and Bedworth)

• Food hygiene, health and safety, retail, customer care, barista skills:

Coventry Cyrenians

• ESOL: Refugee and Migrant Centre, Workers Educational Association

Skills Development

Accredited and non accredited training

• Media Training: Radio Plus
• Catering, Woodwork: Volunteer Centre North Warwickshire, Volunteer

Centre Nuneaton & Beds

• Numeracy, literacy: Workers Educational Association, Sky Blues in the

Community

• Money management: Workers Educational Association
• Sports leadership: Sky Blues in the Community

Enterprise

Business advice for self employment and social enterprise

• Micro enterprise for people with a learning disability:

Lifepath Trust

• Self Employment for BAME Community: The Highlife

Centre

• Social enterprise: Coventry and Warwickshire CDA

Confidence Building

Intensive programmes to choose from

• GOALS - self-esteem, motivation, positive thinking: Orbit

Heart of England

• Building confidence following sight loss: Action for Blind

People

• Confidence Building for Women: Foleshill Women’s Training
• Work readiness: Groundwork West Midlands

Health & Wellbeing

• Women’s health and wellbeing: Foleshill Women’s Training
• Pre-therapeutic counselling for people experiencing

mental ill health: Valley House

• Health and wellbeing programmes: Sky Blues in the

Community

Barrier Breaking

• Help with the cost of childcare and travel while on the programme
• Language Support
• Housing and legal advice for refugees
• Referrals to other organisations
• Connecting People

Range of support services available

User Involvement

• User Advisory Forum
• Representation on Project Steering Group
• Volunteering opportunities in aspects of delivery
• Evaluation and quality assessment and ongoing feedback

Developing programmes to promote participant involvement

Adding Value to Your Services

We welcome referrals Provide intensive and additional support to help your

clients achieve positive outcomes Signpost to your services which may be of benefit to Accelerate participants

Get in Touch Make a Referral Find out More

Visit our Website: www.accelerate.org.uk Call Coventry and Warwickshire CDA: 024 7663 3911 Contact any Accelerate Partner: Partner Directory is in your pack Join us today at our Information Fair to talk with our partners and

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Sarah Windrum

Board Member Coventry & Warwickshire LEP

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Sue Ormiston

EU Programme Manager Big Lottery Fund

About the Big Lottery Fund

— We fund 12,000 projects a year using money raised by National Lottery Players — We received over 90,000 enquiries and applications during the past year — Most of our funding goes to projects applying through open, responsive programmes – such as Awards for All and Reaching Communities — 91.3 per cent of last years’ awards were small, with a value of less than £10,000

Big Lottery Fund ESIF

B B O

Why is The Fund involved in ESF?

OUR MISSION Making a real difference to communities and the lives of people most in need ESF TO9 Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty OUTCOME 1 To maximise the impact of this funding OUTCOME 2 To improve access to European Funds by VCSE

• rganisations

Why BBO? Overall Vision for BBO

Who’s Who in European Funding?

Proposed activity

The Big Lottery Opt In Offer A Summary

• 1. Supporting those furthest

from the labour market

• 2. Actual costs
• 3. Grants, not contracts
• 4. Two stage application

process

• 5. Development funding &

support available

The story so far…….

• Development funding

allocated to majority of stage 2 applicants

• Main Grants awarded to

most Round 1 and some Round 2 applicants

• Remainder of main grants

to be awarded over next 6 – 8 months

• Support provided to all

applicants

Next Steps.....

Further information www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/esf esf@biglotteryfund.org.uk

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Sue Ogle

Director of Operations & Development Voluntary Action Coventry

VSquad Plus - Supported Volunteering

About VAC

Voluntary Action Coventry is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. We’re passionate about promoting and enabling voluntary activity in Coventry, working with both individuals and voluntary and community organisations to tackle inequalities and disadvantage in the city. We aim to increase and better support social action and community resilience in Coventry; strengthening communities and improving quality of life.

About VAC

Since 1999 we have run the Volunteer Centre in Coventry, providing information to individuals on volunteering opportunities that they can undertake and helping voluntary and community organisations to recruit volunteers. We work with everyone – because we believe everyone has something to give. But we recognise that not everyone is ready.

The barriers that can affect people accessing employment, such as low self-esteem, isolation, physical and mental health problems and lack of social capital, may also act as barriers to volunteering. Therefore a project which effectively gets people ready for volunteering will be a significant step in getting them ready for employment (Bashir et al 2013).

VSquad Plus Extra help for people that want to volunteer but who need help to overcome barriers

VSquad Plus offers:

• 12 weeks of activity (sessions run Tues & Thurs 2-4pm)
• Taster volunteering sessions, if you aren't sure what role is right

for you we can support you to try a range of opportunities

• One to one support to help you find a volunteering role that

meets your needs and interests

• Help to fill in forms and prepare for interviews
• Accredited and non-accredited training
• On-going support to help you settle in to VSquad Plus and

your volunteering role

• A reference at the end of the project

• ne to one

and group sessions

Our clients

AB has a heroin addiction which she is in recovery

• from. She has recent criminal convictions.

AB says her heroin addiction was a key factor in her getting into trouble with the police. AB has extreme low confidence and finds travelling unaccompanied very difficult and scary in part because of past relationships.

GH has physical health problems as he has arthritis which affects his mobility. GH also has schizophrenia. GH is currently living in supported accommodation for people who are homeless. GH has previous criminal convictions but these are from a very long time ago.

KL has hearing difficulties, which means she needs people to speak to her face to face and not from behind. KL disclosed at the start of the project that she doesn’t have much confidence in her speech and therefore has a tendency to mumble which makes her feel less confident. KL also has difficulties with writing and spelling.

Changing and developing

A key aim for AB was to keep doing well and staying clean. It was important for her to develop the confidence to go out unassisted. AB identified a keen interest for caring and crafts and these are the areas in which she would like to volunteer

Changing and developing

GH has improved communication skills, including increased eye contact. GH has been clear about identifying his goals:

• To volunteer/work in charity shop
• To interact more with people
• To improve his mental health and remain positive
• To be more mobile

Changing and developing

KL is growing in confidence, improving her communication skills when working in groups and in

• ne to one situations.

She has attended every group session and has attended multiple one to one sessions. KL is always on time, polite and friendly to all the

• ther Vsquad Plus participants.

Positive outcomes

AB was able to have someone other than her usual support worker collect her from her home to attend a group session AB identified that she would like to volunteer with Bethany’s Wish Deciding to share her personal circumstances with the group as a way to further increase her confidence in learning to trust/have faith in others

Positive outcomes

• GH opened a personal email account for the first

time

• Created an online volunteer connect profile
• Mobility scooter arranged to help GH be more

mobile and independent

• Volunteering opportunity at a charity shop

Positive outcomes

KL began volunteering at her local PDSA shop every Monday for two hours and is looking at a second role at Albany Theatre. KL will be joining an Adult Education English class on Friday mornings. KL also had a job interview at Morrison’s supermarket.

Working in partnership

Accelerate will allow greater support to be targeted at individuals in the right way and at the right time. Referrals that are not just ‘here’s a leaflet’ or ‘I’ll make you an appointment’ but genuinely involve the client and are driven by what they need.

A Building Better Opportunities Project

Mike Fowler

Chief Executive Coventry Cyrenians

HOMELESS PEOPLE

Fact or Fiction Homeless people are 3.5 times more likely to suffer from mental ill-health than the general population Correct ……..…but they are 10 times more likely to commit suicide

How do we help?

Our aim is to ensure that people become as independent as possible, realise their potential and contribute to society rather than being a drain on scarce resources On average people stay in our accommodation services about six months during which time they will participate in a range of structured and informal learning and engagement. 177 people left our accommodation in the year to 31 Mar 2016. Aside from accommodation, 92% of those people reported at least one positive improvement in their life and on average each

• f those reported improvements in 4.1 different areas.

Job Prospects

• 15% believed their job prospects had improved even

though they were out of work at the time they left

• 25% had received vocational training or entered

formal education whilst with us

• Over 36% were in paid employment when they left us

‘Refreshed’ began as an idea whereby counterfeit clothes which were seized by Trading Standards and destined for landfill sites could be donated to us and used by homeless people The early challenge was that we could not legally distribute clothes which bore a counterfeit logo We approached Coventry University Fashion Department to see if they could help with ‘de-branding’. They did better, they set first year students the task of turning the clothes into something different. T-shirts became dresses and coats became handbags and the clothing was sold in our own shop. Refreshed was born.

So why are we part of Accelerate?

• Our beneficiaries need a helping hand
• Square pegs don’t fit round holes
• Everyone has something to offer
• We have something that works but …………..
• We don’t have all the answers

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Questions

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Let’s work together

Accelerate Information Fair is open!