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European Funded Employment and Skills Support in the Humber July 2017
Contents
Overview ................................................................................................................................................. 4
Programme Summary ............................................................................................................................. 5
Themes ................................................................................................................................................ 5
EU Funded Programmes ................................................................................................................. 5
Other Non-EU Funded Programmes ............................................................................................... 7
Geographic Coverage .......................................................................................................................... 8
EU Funded Programmes ................................................................................................................. 8
Other Non-EU Funded Programmes ............................................................................................... 9
Springboard B.................................................................................................................................... 10
Careers NET 18-24 (GLLEP) ............................................................................................................... 11
In To Work......................................................................................................................................... 12
Moving Back into Employment: Skills Support to the Unemployed (GLLEP).................................... 14
Skills Support for the Unemployed (YNYER) ..................................................................................... 15
Humber Apprenticeship Brokerage Service ...................................................................................... 16
Apprenticeship Growth Programme (GLLEP).................................................................................... 17
Yorkshire Apprenticeship Hub .......................................................................................................... 18
Exploring Opportunities BBO Humber .............................................................................................. 19
Greater Lincolnshire MOVE – ‘Moving On: Volunteering and Employability’ BBO programme
(GLLEP) .............................................................................................................................................. 20
Action Towards Inclusion (Building Better Opportunities YNYER) ................................................... 21
Inspire Me - Humber Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance ................................. 22
Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance .................................................................... 23
Community Grants ............................................................................................................................ 24
Hull Community Led Local Development .......................................................................................... 25
North Lincolnshire Community Led Local Development Programme .............................................. 26
Next Level.......................................................................................................................................... 27
Skills Support for the Workforce....................................................................................................... 28
Skills Support for the Workforce – YNYER ........................................................................................ 29
Higher Level Skills – YNYER ............................................................................................................... 30
Skills Support to the Greater Lincolnshire Workforce (GLLEP) ......................................................... 31
Specialist Skills Advisor Network (GLLEP) ......................................................................................... 32
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Specialist Industry Educator Programme (GLLEP) ............................................................................ 33
Enterprise! ........................................................................................................................................ 34
ENRG2 ............................................................................................................................................... 35
Finance and Business Support for New and Existing Businesses (GLLEP)......................................... 36
Growing Graduate Enterprise ........................................................................................................... 37
Other Programmes ............................................................................................................................... 38
Talent Match ..................................................................................................................................... 38
New Enterprise Allowance ................................................................................................................ 40
Specialist Employability Support (SES) .............................................................................................. 41
Work and Health Programme ........................................................................................................... 42
Work Choice ...................................................................................................................................... 43
Ongo – Raising Aspirations ............................................................................................................... 44
The Careers & Enterprise Company .................................................................................................. 45
Green Port ......................................................................................................................................... 47
Humber Skills Pledge......................................................................................................................... 48
Future ESIF Calls for Projects ................................................................................................................ 49
Technical Assistance Partnership ...................................................................................................... 49
Humber LEP - Contact Us ...................................................................................................................... 50
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Overview
The Humber’s European Structural and Investment Funds programme 2014-2020 is investing over
£87.7m in the Humber through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), European Social
Fund (ESF) and European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).
To date, a number of programmes have been approved which provide support for people to access
employment, consider starting their own business, improve their skills and become more socially
included.
There are also a number of programmes that have been commissioned by our neighbouring LEPs
which are delivering support in our overlapping areas of East Riding, North and North East
Lincolnshire.
The Humber LEP is keen to ensure that all work coaches, advisors and organisations working to
support people to gain employment or improve their skills are aware of the support that is being
offered through these programmes, to stimulate cross referrals and make the necessary impact on
levels of employment and skills in the Humber.
This document provides a summary of this support, as well as details of other Employment and Skills
programmes that are currently live in the Humber which are complementary to the ESIF funded
programmes. It also includes details of provision that is targeted at those that are considering
starting their own business as an alternative.
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Programme Summary
Themes
EU Funded Programmes
Careers Guidance
Self Employment
Apprenticeships
Employability
SME Support
Lone Parents
Employment
Traineeships
Redundancy
Graduates
Programme
Disabled
Health
NEET
Skills
50+
Springboard B
Careers NET
18-24 (GLLEP)
In to Work
Moving back
into
employment:
Skills Support
to the
Unemployed
(GLLEP)
Skills Support
for the
Unemployed
(YNYER)
Humber
Apprenticeship
Brokerage
Service
Apprenticeship
Growth
Programme
(GLLEP)
Yorkshire
Apprenticeship
Hub (YNYER)
Exploring
Opportunities
BBO Humber
Greater
Lincolnshire
MOVE (GLLEP)
Action Towards
Inclusion - BBO
(YNYER)
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Careers Guidance
Self Employment
Apprenticeships
Employability
SME Support
Lone Parents
Employment
Traineeships
Redundancy
Graduates
Programme
Disabled
Health
NEET
Skills
50+
Inspire Me -
Humber CEIAG
Community
Grants
(Humber &
YNYER)
Hull
Community
Led Local
Development
North
Lincolnshire
Community
Led Local
Development
Next Level
Skills Support
for the
Workforce
Humber
Skills Support
for the Greater
Lincolnshire
Workforce
(GLLEP
Specialist Skills
Advisor
Network
(GLLEP)
Specialist
industry
Educator
Programme
(GLLEP)
Skills Support
for the
Workforce
(YNYER)
Higher Level
Skills (YNYER)
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Careers Guidance
Self Employment
Apprenticeships
Employability
SME Support
Lone Parents
Employment
Traineeships
Redundancy
Programme
Graduates
Disabled
Health
NEET
Skills
50+
Enterprise!
Finance &
Support for
New
Businesses
(GLLEP)
Growing
Graduate
Enterprise
(GLLEP)
Other Non-EU Funded Programmes
Careers Guidance
Self Employment
Apprenticeships
Employability
SME Support
Lone Parents
Employment
Traineeships
Redundancy
Programme
Graduates
Disabled
Health
NEET
Skills
50+
Talent Match
New Enterprise
Allowance
Specialist
Employability
Support
Work and
Health
Programme
Work Choice
Ongo – Raising
Aspirations
The Careers &
Enterprise
Company
Green Port
Humber Skills
Pledge
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Geographic Coverage
EU Funded Programmes
Programme Hull East Riding North North East
Lincolnshire Lincolnshire
Springboard B
Careers NET 18-24 (GLLEP)
In to Work
Moving back into employment: Skills
Support to the Unemployed (GLLEP)
Skills Support for the Unemployed
(YNYER)
Humber Apprenticeship Brokerage
Service
Apprenticeship Growth Programme
(GLLEP)
Yorkshire Apprenticeship Hub (YNYER)
Building Better Opportunities
(Humber)
Greater Lincolnshire MOVE (GLLEP)
Action Towards Inclusion: Building
Better Opportunities (YNYER)
Inspire Me - Humber CEIAG
Community Grants (Humber & YNYER)
Hull Community Led Local
Development
North Lincolnshire Community Led
Local Development
Next Level
Skills Support for the Workforce
Humber
Skills Support for the Greater
Lincolnshire Workforce (GLLEP
Specialist Skills Advisor Network
(GLLEP)
Specialist industry Educator
Programme (GLLEP)
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Programme Hull East Riding North North East
Lincolnshire Lincolnshire
Skills Support for the Workforce
(YNYER)
Higher Level Skills (YNYER)
Enterprise!
ENRG2
Finance & Support for New & Existing
Businesses (GLLEP)
Growing Graduate Enterprise (GLLEP)
Other Non-EU Funded Programmes
Programme Hull East Riding North North East
Lincolnshire Lincolnshire
Talent Match
New Enterprise Allowance
Specialist Employment Support
Work and Health Programme
Work Choice
Ongo – Raising Aspirations
The Careers & Enterprise Company
Green Port
Humber Skills Pledge
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Springboard B
Project Sponsor: Humber Learning Consortium
Humber ESIF Investment: £7.6m
Launch Date / Status: 01 April 2016
End Date: 31 July 2018
Target Audience: Inactive and long term unemployed young people agted 16 – 29 years in Hull (up
to 25 years Rest of Humber)
Delivery Partners: Circa 16 partners in Hull; ActivFirst, CERT, Construction Works, Goodwin, HYA,
GTA Motor Trades, National Safety Training Services, Mencap, City Health Care Partnership, Hull
Training, Hull City Council Youth Enterprise, The Warren, Princes Trust, PET Xi, Talent Match
Humber, Hull City Council Key Worker Service
5 including the LA’s rest of Humber: ActivFirst, CERT, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, North East
Lincolnshire Council and North Lincolnshire Council
Geographic Coverage: YEI and ESF funds in Hull; ESF funds rest of Humber (East Riding of Yorkshire,
North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire.
Support Available:
Engagement, job search, employability skills, functional skills, basic skills, pastoral and wrap around
support, vocational tasters and routes (construction trades, motor trades, warehousing, maritime);
Key Worker Support
Dedicated mental health support for all participants (N.B. Hull only).
Intermediate Labour Market – wage subsidy for participants working in creative / cultural industries
in Hull. Wage incentive of £1000 for employers who employ an eligible participant for at least 6
months.
Website: www.hlc-vol.org
Contact: ben.fletcher@hlc-vol.org or 01482 327438
10Careers NET 18-24 (GLLEP)
Project Sponsor: CLIP Learning
Greater Lincolnshire Investment: £350k
Launch Date / Status: Live
End Date: July 2018
Target Audience: Young people aged 18-24
Delivery Partners: Abbey Access Traiing, Tayloritex
Geographic Coverage: North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire
Support Available:
Support for young people aged 18-24 who are struggling to make a career choice. Career Net can
offer information and advice about a wide range of careers, as well as a development plan tailored
to client aspirations. In addition, participants can access training, company visits, work placements
and residential projects - whatever it takes to get them on the road to success!
Website: www.cliplearning.com
Contact: Theresa Salisbury – theresa@cliplearning.com
11In To Work
Project Sponsor: Maximus
Humber ESIF Investment: £3.76m
Greater Lincolnshire Investment: £2.25m
Launch Date / Status: Live
End Date: December 2018
Target Audience: Individuals must be unemployed or inactive and fall into one or more of the
following categories:
Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) claimants – especially persistent returners and households with
Multigenerational worklessness
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants and claimants of other health related
benefits
Individuals with a self-declared mental health condition
Individuals with substance and/or alcohol addiction
Victims of domestic violence/abuse
Long term benefit claimants
Lone parents
People with caring responsibilities including unpaid carers
Ethnic minorities
Ex-service personnel
Those with housing/homelessness issues
Ex-offenders
Unemployed older-workers aged over 50
Care leavers
Young unemployed/workless aged 18-24
Returners to the labour market
Delivery Partners: Inspire 2 Independence, Hull City Council, Shores Centre, Aspire-Igen, Learning
Communities, Remploy, Community Learning in Partnership (CLIP), The Work Company
Geographic Coverage: Humber and Greater Lincolnshire
Support Available:
In to Work is a back to work programme funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on behalf of Humber Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)
and Greater Lincolnshire LEP, designed and delivered by MAXIMUS and our delivery partners.
This provision is voluntary, part time and will support those who are furthest from the labour
market, including those in entrenched worklessness, to tackle barriers which prevent unemployed
individuals from moving into sustainable employment.
It will provide a holistic approach to give personalised, tailored support for individuals with multiple
barriers to improve work readiness and employability skills.
In to Work is delivered across Humber and Greater Lincolnshire through a network of delivery and
outreach sites. If the participant is unable to attend a delivery centre we can arrange to meet the
participant at a location convenient to them such as a community centre.
12Website: https://www.maximusuk.co.uk/people-services/customers/in-to-work-
programme/humber-and-greater-lincolnshire
Contact: Client contact: 0800 028 3037
Programme Manager – Claire Guynan CGuynan@maximusuk.co.uk or 01482 306971
13Moving Back into Employment: Skills Support to the
Unemployed (GLLEP)
Project Sponsor: People Plus
Greater Lincolnshire Investment: £2.26m
Launch Date / Status: Live
End Date: July 2018
Target Audience: Unemployed people
Delivery Partners:
Geographic Coverage: North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire
Support Available:
Referrals taken from Jobcentre Plus, partner organisations, community groups, charities and self-
referral.
Support is via regulated and non-regulated learning including:
Tutor delivered regulated learning
NVQs
Face-to-face mentoring
Classroom support
Support with online applications and CVs
Learning Plus online courses
Website: http://www.peopleplus.co.uk/
Contact: mandy.mckenna@peopleplus.co.uk
14Skills Support for the Unemployed (YNYER)
Project Sponsor: APM
YNYER ESIF Investment:
Launch Date / Status: Live
End Date: July 2018
Target Audience: Unemployed and Inactive
Delivery Partners:
Geographic Coverage: East Riding (York and North Yorkshire)
Support Available:
Managed by Advanced Personnel Management (APM), the Skills Support for the Unemployed
project assists unemployed and economically inactive people in the YNYER LEP area facing skills
related barriers to progressing into employment, apprenticeships or self-employment.
Skills Support for the Unemployed provides a bespoke package of vocational skills training and
support to help those not in work find and keep employment by delivering the vocational skills that
employers need.
Website: http://apm-uk.co.uk
Contact: Mark Harrison on mark.harrison@apm-uk.co.uk or call 01642 425560 or Honi Lees -
Honi.Lees@apm-uk.co.uk
15Humber Apprenticeship Brokerage Service
Project Sponsor: YH Training Services
Humber ESIF Investment: £1m
Launch Date / Status: November 2016
End Date: July 2018
Target Audience: Unemployed / Inactive Individuals and
SMEs
Delivery Partners: Hull College Group, Grimsby Institute, Airco, Avant Partnership, HYA Training, City
Works
Geographic Coverage: Humber wide
Support Available:
The aim of the Humber Apprenticeship Brokerage Service (HABS) is to provide an independent,
impartial apprenticeship information and brokerage service, to increase the number of
apprenticeships at all levels, including higher degree levels. The programme provides support and
guidance to unemployed and inactive people to find out more about and access Apprenticeships in
the Humber.
The brokerage engages with businesses across the Humber region with the aim of progressing and
sustaining people in either apprenticeships, traineeships or education within their organisation.
Website: http://www.wearehabs.co.uk
Contact: 01482 244440 or info@wearehabs.co.uk
Programme Manager - Martin Fitzgerald - martin.fitzgerald@yh-group.co.uk or 07702 563589
16Apprenticeship Growth Programme (GLLEP)
Project Sponsor: People Plus
GLLEP ESIF Investment: £610k
Launch Date / Status: November 2016
End Date: July 2018
Target Audience: SMEs in the GLLEP area
Delivery Partners:
Geographic Coverage: North and North East Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire
Support Available:
Raising the awareness of Apprenticeships with SMEs and unemployed people aged 16+. The
programme will support SMEs through the process of recruiting an apprentice and supporting
unemployed residents to apply for Apprenticeship vacancies.
Website: http://peopleplus.co.uk/apprenticeship-programme
Contact: mandy.mckenna@peopleplus.co.uk
17Yorkshire Apprenticeship Hub
Project Sponsor: Grimsby Institute of Further and
Higher Education
YNYER ESIF Investment: £2m
Launch Date / Status: November 2016
End Date: July 2018
Target Audience: SMEs
Geographic Coverage: East Riding, York and North Yorkshire
Support Available:
The Yorkshire Apprenticeship Hub provides impartial advice to employers and employees in the
York, North Yorkshire and East Riding region to increase awareness and understanding of
Apprenticeships.
The programme works with Small & Medium Enterprise businesses (SMEs) to help them understand
their business needs and aspirations and provide skills solutions to help their business grow. The
programme also makes pre-Apprenticeship training activities available to ensure that employers and
employees are prepared and supported every step of the way.
Website: www.yorkshireapprenticeshiphub.co.uk
Contact: 01723 356288 or Apphub@ycoastco.ac.uk
18Exploring Opportunities BBO
Humber
Project Sponsor: Humber Learning Consortium
Humber ESIF Investment: £2m
Launch Date / Status: 01 November 2016
End Date: 31 October 2019
Target Audience:
The partnership’s aim is to improve the lives of 850 unemployed and economically inactive people
aged 25+ in the Humber LEP area by increasing participants’ employability skills, self-confidence,
local knowledge, community engagement, and personal resilience. The project aims to support a
50/50 male & female split with 20% unemployed and 80% economically inactive.
Delivery partners: Exploring Opportunities is an employment and social inclusion programme
delivered through a partnership of 19 Humber organisations including the 4 local authorities, led by
Humber Learning Consortium:
Activfirst, CERT, CPO Media, Foresight, Goodwin Development Trust, Citizens Advice Bureau, Hull
Business Training, Active Humber Sports, Inspire 2 Independence, Mencap, MIND, ONGO, Outreach
ER, Probe, Hull City Council, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, North Lincolnshire Council, North East
Lincolnshire Council
Geographic Coverage: Humber-wide
Support Available:
Employability support covering employability skills, self-confidence, local knowledge, community
engagement, and personal resilience
Careers Guidance – impartial career guidance
Key worker support, working with both the participant and delivery partners providing high levels of
support to address very specific barriers, e.g. poor mental health, entrenched financial problems,
and low functional skills.
Participants are able to move within Exploring Opportunities to access programmes of specialised
support from the different partners. Their individualised programmes can also include personal and
social development, occupational-specific training, work experience, and volunteering.
Key workers provide participants with additional support for up to 12 weeks after leaving the
programme, either in the work place, whilst in further learning, or through on-going job search
support.
As part of the project there is a learning programme called Making Connections, the programme
brings together participants and practitioners to visit, discuss, and explore what their local
communities have to offer as places to live, work, and play. Making Connections aims to develop a
better appreciation of people’s respective barriers, lives, and professions.
Website: www.hlc-vol.org
Contact: Michelle Munslow BBO Partnership Manager michelle.munslow@hlc-vol.org 01482 327438
Bridie Rawlings BBO Partnership Adviser bridie.rawlings@hlc-vol.org 01482 327438
19Greater Lincolnshire MOVE –
‘Moving On: Volunteering and
Employability’ BBO programme
(GLLEP)
Project Sponsor: Voluntary Centre Services (Urban Challenge Ltd)
GLLEP ESIF Investment:
Launch Date / Status: Live July 2016
End Date: June 2019
Target Audience: The project has a specific focus on those out of work and people who are most at
risk of social exclusion. This includes, but is not limited to:
people with caring responsibilities;
people with digital exclusion issues;
people with debt and money management issues;
people with drug and alcohol dependency
people with learning difficulties and disabilities or educational attainment issues (particularly
lack of basic literacy and numeracy and English for speakers of other languages skills);
people with family, parenting and relationship problems;
people with health problems (including mental health);
people with involvement in gangs;
people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
Geographic Coverage: North and North East Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire (GLLEP Area)
Delivery Partners: North Lincolnshire – Ongo Communities, Voluntary Action North Lincolnshire
North East Lincolnshire – YMCA Humber, Voluntary Action North East Lincolnshire
Support Available:
The project aims to help economically inactive and unemployed people to start on the road back
into employment, by tackling barriers that prevent them from working, and enter into sustained
employment.
Activity themes: Employment, Skills, Careers Guidance, Employability, NEET , Apprenticeships, Self
Employment, Volunteering, Digital Skills
Website: www.voluntarycentreservices.org.uk
Contact: Jennie Eaton, Project Co-ordinator, 01529 308450 jennie@voluntarycentreservices.org.uk
20Action Towards Inclusion (Building
Better Opportunities YNYER)
Project Sponsor: Your Consortium
YNYER ESIF Investment: £7.4m
Launch Date / Status: Live
End Date: September 2019
Target Audience: Economically inactive or unemployed, completely
without work and furthest from the labour market
Delivery Partners: East Riding Delivery Partners include:
Skills for Communities Ltd, Hull and East Yorkshire Mind, Shores Centre,
Hull & East Riding CAB , Humber and Wolds Rural Community Council ,
HCUK Training, Autism Plus, Pre-school Learning Alliance, Dame Kelly Holmes Trust, Activ8 Learning,
Working for Health CIC, Big Ambitions CIC
Geographic Coverage: East Riding (York and North Yorkshire)
Support Available:
Action Towards Inclusion (ATI) is part of the national Building Better Opportunities programme,
funded by the Big Lottery Fund and the European Social Fund.
The aim of the project is to provide mentoring and support to people who are economically inactive
or unemployed, helping them to overcome barriers and move closer to employment, whilst
addressing a range of social issues.
The project aims to help 2,000 of the most disadvantaged individuals by the end of 2019. ATI is being
delivered by over 50 partner organisations across the nine districts of the York, North Yorkshire and
East Riding (YNYER) LEP area: Craven, East Riding, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale,
Scarborough, Selby, and York.
Keyworker Partners will initially engage with participants, and provide ongoing support to them
throughout the programme. As required they will refer participants to Intervention Partners, who
will provide specific activities to overcome barriers linked to finance, skills and health such as;
wellbeing activities, Maths/English/ICT, volunteering/work experience placements,
counselling/therapy, debt advice, crisis resolution, digital support and vocational training.
Website: http://yourconsortium.org/projects/grants/ati/
Contact: Alex Kelley - akelley@yourconsortium.org or 01423 795309
21Inspire Me - Humber Careers Education, Information, Advice and
Guidance
Project Sponsor: Aspire-Igen
Humber ESIF Investment: £1m
Launch Date / Status: Live
End Date: July 2018
Target Audience: Unemployed and inactive participants aged 19+
Delivery Partners: North East Lincs Council
Geographic Coverage: Humber LEP area
Support Available: we have a dedicated group of Employment Advisers who offer 1:1 support
around the region delivering this voluntary service to adults aged 19+. Focus is on 12 weeks of
support to support progression into one of the outcomes; employment, traineeships,
apprenticeships, education, high education/higher apprenticeships.
We will provide support in the following ways:
Assistance with identifying local job opportunities with employers
Support to navigate the world of online job-searching and applications
Access to resources and advice to help with preparation and confidence at interviews
Providing in-work support to help you stay on track
Explore the world of apprenticeship opportunities
Review your current skills and identifying skills needs
Assistance with completing learning/education applications
Support you to achieve your goals in work and learning
The programme is also coordinating the validation of the Employability Passport and increasing sign-
up of new organisations to the Humber Skills Pledge. It will deliver a number of Careers events
across the Humber as well as supporting the Gold Standard Assessment process to achieve new
accreditations.
Website: http://www.aspire-igen.com/inspireme
Contact: Michelle Peacock on Michelle.Peacock@aspire-igen.com or 07975 530526
22Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance
Project Sponsor: Prospects
YNYER ESIF Investment: £1m
Launch Date / Status: Live
End Date: July 2018
Target Audience:
Geographic Coverage: East Riding (York and North Yorkshire)
Support Available:
This programme focuses on improving Careers Education Information Advice and Guidance (CEIAG)
in particular around the priority sectors of the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding LEP.
It delivers a range of activity such as individualising IAG, promoting Science Technology
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), developing stakeholder programmes and supporting
Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
The project includes:
voluntary work for priority groups (minimum of 20-hrs over a 4- week period)
support to schools wishing to achieve a recognised CEIAG quality standard
establishing an Employability Charter that offers local employers a tailored menu of
supporting activities
Website: https://www.prospects.ac.uk
Contact: For referrals call the Prospects ESF Team on 01924 371579
23Community Grants
Project Sponsor: Humber Learning Consortium
Humber & YNYER ESIF Investment: £2m
Launch Date: November 2016
End Date: July 2018
Target Audience: Organisations must be small not for profit or charities, based in or providing
services in the YNYER and Humber area:
Company turnover must not have exceeded £1,000,000 in the last three years
Organisations must employ 20 or less staff (FTE)
Organisations must not be in direct receipt of funding from the European Social Fund (ESF),
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) or Skills Funding Agency (SFA).
Geographic Coverage: Humber, East Riding, York and North Yorkshire
Support Available:
Grants of £5,000 to £15,000 are available for small/medium Voluntary and Community Sector
organisations and social enterprises to support unemployed people 18+ progress towards
employment through access to learning and training opportunities.
Any activity that will help an individual progress towards employment and improve employability
skills will be considered, examples include:
Help with basic skills
Taster work experience and voluntary work
Information and support relating to training and work
Job search assistance, including the provision of equipment and other assistance necessary
to secure employment
Confidence building and personal development
Training, advice & counselling
First contact engagement to provide support with overcoming barriers to learning and/or
employment
Website: https://www.hlc-vol.org/partner/community-grants-4/what-are-community-grants
Contact: Jacquie Newman at jacquie.newman@hlc-vol.org or 01482 327438
24Hull Community Led Local Development
Project Sponsor: Hull City Council
Humber ESIF Investment: £4,788,936
Launch Date: Approx. October 2017
End Date: December 2022
Target Audience: People living in the 20% most deprived areas within Hull (as measured by the
Indices of Deprivation 2010) who are unemployed or economically inactive and SME’s within Hull
Delivery Partners: None
Geographic Coverage: Hull’s 20% most deprived areas – Lower Super Output Areas (2010)
Support Available:
Overarching themes of support will be under the following headings:
Targeted training in key work-related skills
Making it easier to find and access work
Growing Integrated Community Hubs
Supporting local and community businesses
Joined up support to increase household incomes
Website: To follow.
Contact: Iain Atkinson at iain.atkinson@hullcc.gov.uk 613879 or Sharon Clay,
Sharon.clay@hullcc.gov.uk 613281.
25North Lincolnshire Community Led Local Development
Programme
Project Sponsor: North Lincolnshire Council
Humber ESIF Investment: £
Launch Date: Pending
End Date: December 2021
Target Audience: Local residents and businesses within 3 deprived areas of Scunthorpe
Delivery Partners:
Geographic Coverage: Top 20% deprived LSOAs centred around three areas within Scunthorpe –
contact CLLD Team for further information
Support Available:
The North Lincolnshire Community Led Local Development (CLLD) Programme will use both the
European Social Fund and European Regional Development Fund to deliver social regeneration and
economic growth in North Lincolnshire’s most deprived communities in a way that is joined-up at a
local level and coordinated across agencies and departments in a way that has not previously been
achieved.
CLLD will be focused on effecting community-led social and economic development in the three
most deprived areas of Scunthorpe. A Local Action Group (LAG) has been created from
representatives of the voluntary community sector, public sector, private sector and local individuals
which will encourage projects to apply to a total funding pot of approximately £2.2m to help tackle 5
key areas of:
Health and disability including mental health as barriers to employment
Supporting entrepreneurship through pre-start support and support for micro and small
enterprises
Supporting particular disadvantaged groups into labour market participation
Raising aspirations within communities and address worklessness and deprivation
Stimulating local level collaboration amongst local residents, the public, private and
voluntary and community sectors, small businesses and other key stakeholders
Website: www.northlincs.gov.uk
Contact: Cheryle Smith, CLLD Team on Cheryl.smith@northlincs.gov.uk
26Next Level
Project Sponsor: Ongo Communities
Humber ESIF Investment: £358,767
Launch Date / Status: Live
End Date: 31.12.2019
Target Audience: Employed People specifically in low level jobs that are
full or part time, zero hours contracts, temporary, etc
Humber Based SMEs
Geographic Coverage: North Lincolnshire
Support Available:
The Next Level project will deliver a package of accredited and non-accredited training to improve
the skill level of at least 470 disadvantaged people in North Lincolnshire, enabling them to progress
into roles within businesses, particularly where there are skills gaps that offer sustainable
employment.
The programme will help motivate low skilled working people, using a range of flexible learning
pathways to improve their skills profile, focusing on gender equality and equal opportunities.
Next Level will engage and work with LEP partners and businesses across the Humber to create an
innovative programme to support priority sector areas.
The project aims to support people who live or work in North Lincolnshire to progress into better
paid jobs, permanent jobs or regular set hour jobs focusing on the LEP priority sectors due to market
conditions/ personal aspirations. This will be achieved by engaging with people in low paid jobs,
supporting them to progress to the ‘Next Level’ in their career and engage with employers to
determine the skills and qualifications they require in recruiting the best staff for their business.
Website: https://www.ongo.co.uk/support/get-into-work/next-level-project/
Contact: Yvonne.thompson@ongo.co.uk
27Skills Support for the Workforce
Project Sponsor: HCUK Training
Humber ESIF Investment: £6m
Launch Date / Status: November 2016
End Date: July 2018
Target Audience: SMEs in the Humber LEP area in key sectors (Renewable technologies/Green
energy, Ports and logistics, Creative and Digital, Chemicals, Engineering and Manufacturing, Food,
Visitor economy and underpinning sectors of Health & Social Care and Construction)
Delivery Partners: East Riding College, Grimsby Institute, Bishop Burton College, North Lindsey
College, Chamber Training, HOTA, National Safety Training Services, The Skills Network, Birkwood
Plant Training, Integrated Training Solutions, Portull Training Services, Solvo Vir.
Geographic Coverage: Humber wide
Support Available:
Delivery of fully funded, employer responsive workplace learning courses across the Humber region,
aimed at enhancing employee skills and career prospects as well as reducing the risk of long-term
unemployment.
People are eligible to receive funded support from the SSW / SSR programme if they are 19 years of
age or older and are employed or employed and at risk of redundancy by an SME. People who are
self-employed are also eligible to receive support from these programmes. All employees must have
been granted the time to participate and complete their agreed programme of learning. All training
will be delivered either in the workplace or at a readily accessible nearby location.
The training provider will complete eligibility checks on all organisations and individuals who are
accessing the programme.
Website: http://www.myssw.co.uk
Contact: ssw@hcuktraining.co.uk or 0300 330 20 10 / 0300 330 15 20 or apply online at the website
above
28Skills Support for the Workforce – YNYER
Project Sponsor: Calderdale College
YNYER ESIF Investment: £4m
Launch Date / Status: November 2016
End Date: July 2018
Target Audience: SMEs in the YNYER LEP area in key sectors (Agri-tech and Agriculture, Bio
Renewables and Bio-Economy, Food manufacture, Construction, Engineering, Voluntary, community
and social enterprise, Visitor Economy, Health and Social Care)
Geographic Coverage: East Riding (York and North Yorkshire)
Small to medium-sized businesses based in York, North Yorkshire and East Riding can access fully
funded training for their staff through the Skills Support for the Workforce programme. Free to
eligible businesses, funding to cover the cost of training is provided by the European Union’s
European Social Fund and the Skills Funding Agency.
The programme can assist SMEs to address their immediate and future skills gaps by developing and
delivering training plans tailored to their needs. There are a range of eligible courses from Level 2
and upwards, meaning there's something available to suit most needs.
The team can support SMEs by:
Undertaking a training needs analysis to help identify current and future skills gaps
Developing and delivering a bespoke training plan designed to meet business needs
Supporting access to additional forms of training which cannot be delivered through this
programme
To be eligible for support applicants must:
Be a small to medium-sized business, operating in York, North Yorkshire or East Riding
Be seeking to up-skill their workforce, with a focus on intermediate, technical and higher
skills development, to support a clear growth plan or meet changing business needs
Operate in one of the LEP’s key sectors (see above)
Website: https://www.fundingunit.org.uk/projects/yorkshire-ssw
Contact: 0845 644 3753 or apply online above
29Higher Level Skills – YNYER
Project Sponsor: Calderdale College
YNYER ESIF Investment: £0.75m
Launch Date / Status: November 2016
End Date: July 2018
Target Audience: SMEs
Geographic Coverage: East Riding, York and North Yorkshire
Support Available:
This programme is supporting employers to fill skill-gaps at level 3 and above. It also provides
vocational 'Units' of training as a 'taster' to encourage individuals (including existing graduates) to
commence higher-level training and apprenticeships.
Where sufficient demand exists and provision is not available the service will support with the
development and delivery of new high level skills modules.
The project also focuses on activities that will promote participation of women (aged 15+ years) into
Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
Website: https://www.fundingunit.org.uk/projects/yorkshire-ssw
Contact: Tammie Greenwood on tammieg@calderdale.ac.uk
30Skills Support to the Greater Lincolnshire Workforce (GLLEP)
Project Sponsor: Calderdale College
GLLEP ESIF Investment: £6m
Launch Date / Status: November 2016
End Date: July 2018
Target Audience: SMEs in the GLLEP area
Geographic Coverage: North and North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire
Support Available:
The SSW programme’s advisors will work with the business to support its growth plans by helping to
identify and source business driven learning and development needs.
It will address immediate and future skills gaps by developing programmes tailored to business
needs and providing personnel with the appropriate training to enable the business to compete and
grow.
The team will help eligible businesses to construct a training plan based on business need and will
support them by:
Undertaking a comprehensive skills assessment
Providing options to access the right training
Tailoring training programmes to address specific business needs
Funding any training which can be delivered from within this Skills Support for the
Workforce programme itself
Support the business to access training which cannot be delivered through this programme.
To be eligible for skills funding, a business must:
be a business based in the Greater Lincolnshire area
employ fewer than 250 people with an annual turnover of less than €50 million
a business seeking skills training to support a clear growth plan
Website: https://www.fundingunit.org.uk/projects/greater-lincolnshire-ssw
Contact: 0845 644 3753 or apply online above
31Specialist Skills Advisor Network (GLLEP)
Project Sponsor: Bishop Grossteste University
GLLEP ESIF Investment: £1.4m
Launch Date / Status: Live
End Date: July 2018
Target Audience: SMEs in the GLLEP area
Geographic Coverage: North and North East Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire
Support Available:
This project provides a network of skills advisors to support SMEs to articulate their skills needs
through a detailed skills diagnostic and work with colleges / training providers to meet those needs.
The programme supports SMEs to collaborate, providing a key link between skills and Growth Hub
Advisors.
Advisors have specialist knowledge in the following sectors: engineering/manufacturing, food,
health and care, low carbon, logistics, as well as an understanding of rural and coastal challenges.
Your business will have its own dedicated, impartial Business Skills Advisor who will work with you to
provide:
A FREE tailored analysis of training needs for the growth and sustainability of your business
An action plan specific to your business
Expert advice from industry specialists
Professional skills profiling tools
Introduction to the training options available to you
Brokerage on the development of new courses specific to your requirements, where no
current provision exists
Guidance on accessing funding streams to support your business
A personal Business Skills Advisor will be assigned to work with your business to discuss your
commitments and agree the scope and timescale for the programme of work. The process will
involve some or all of the following dependant on specific business requirements:
An initial in depth conversation to gather business information, understand the future goals
of the business and register your business onto the programme
Agreement on how the training needs of your business will be investigated and collated –
this may involve employee surveys, informal interviews or focus groups
Collation and interpretation of the consultations to determine business objectives and
accompanying training needs across the business in the form of a Training Needs Analysis
A flexible, concise action plan will be agreed with short-term and long term goals
Contact: 01522 563865 or email bgfutures@bishopg.ac.uk
Website: Factsheet
32Specialist Industry Educator Programme (GLLEP)
Project Sponsor: Bishop Grossteste University
GLLEP ESIF Investment: £750k
Launch Date / Status: Live
End Date: July 2018
Target Audience: SMEs in the GLLEP area
Geographic Coverage: North and North East Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire
Support Available:
The Specialist Industry Educator Programme takes you, an industry expert with specialist knowledge
in your field, and connects you with FE Colleges and training providers so that you can support and
develop the skills of Greater Lincolnshire’s future workforce. Benefits / activities include:
A FREE 4-day Bishop Grosseteste University-developed training course in teaching/training
and presentation
Opportunity to give practical real-world training to students through master-classes or short
training courses
Opportunity to influence the content of industry-specific training courses to make them
more relevant to the world of work
Hosting student and trainer visits to your company, enhancing your company’s positive
image to students and stakeholders
The programme allows:
Employers to be part of the solution to the question of how to achieve sustainable growth
and make Greater Lincolnshire a better place to live
Employers to influence the way their area of expertise is taught and practically improve
students’ readiness for work
Individuals from business to access FREE professional short teaching/training courses, to
help improve presentation, communication skills and confidence
Employers, by interacting with training providers, their students and staff, to create valuable
relationships and present a positive image of themselves to key stake-holders in their
industry
Industry experts to deliver Masterclasses and/or host industry visits, and/or become
involved in education in other ways
Contact: 01522 563865 or email bgfutures@bishopg.ac.uk
Website: Factsheet
33Enterprise!
Project Sponsor: East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Humber ESIF Investment: £2.3m
Launch Date / Status: Live
End Date: September 2018
Target Audience: Pre-Start, new start SMEs
Geographic Coverage: East Riding, North and North East Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire
Support Available:
A programme of business support that commences with pre-start interest and ideas development
through online / on-demand activities and develops new companies into growing entities who have
the capacity to expand and take on their first employees.
Eligible clients undertaking the learning journey can access face-to-face business support with a
qualified, accredited Business Advisor working locally, to support their Business Planning and
registration and an application for up to £1,000 matched funds for essential business related
equipment.
Eligible businesses can access a further support grant of £1,000 matched funds to grow their
business more quickly and take on their first employee through the ‘Two’s Company’ scheme.
Website:
Contact: Adrian.shaw@eastriding.gov.uk or 01482 391710
34ENRG2
Project Sponsor: Goodwin Development Trust
Humber ESIF Investment: £1.06m
Launch Date / Status: Live
End Date: December 2018
Target Audience: Individuals considering self employment and existing businesses looking to grow
Geographic Coverage: Kingston-Upon-Hull
Support Available:
Hands on, needs led support either one-to-one or in groups and provided by the most appropriate
partner/team/advisor within the project.
Support covers a wide range of areas including business planning, financial planning, staff
recruitment, legal considerations and many others.
Support is available for individuals to consider enterprise and self employment as a viable option
with the aim of increasing new starts and related job opportunities for the area. Existing businesses
can access support to grow, maximise an opportunity or overcome a challenge with the aim of
increasing the number of business trading to 5 years and beyond.
Website: http://www.enrghull.co.uk
Contact: 01482 485921
35Finance and Business Support for New and Existing
Businesses (GLLEP)
Project Sponsor: NBV Enterprise Solutions Ltd
Greater Lincolnshire ESIF Investment:
Launch Date / Status: Live
End Date: December 2018
Target Audience: SMEs – pre and new start businesses and businesses under 3
years old
Geographic Coverage: North and North East Lincolnshire and whole of the East Midlands
Support Available:
Ideal for pre-start /new start businesses, the project offers a three day training programme focused
on understanding enterprise and business planning. The project also offers ongoing mentoring.
There is also one-to-one mentoring support available for trading businesses, as well as access to
networking events. There is a minimum 12 hours of support available.
There is also a Grant for Enterprise/Grant for New Business that can provide:
• 25% grant - Min. £1,000 - Max. £2,500
• Capital or Revenue
• Retail companies and other EU restricted companies are not eligible
Website: www.nbv.co.uk
Contact: enquiries@nbv.co.uk or 0844 887 2568
36Growing Graduate Enterprise
Project Sponsor: Greenborough Management / University of Lincoln
Greater Lincolnshire ESIF Investment:
Launch Date / Status: Live
End Date: 31 December 2018
Target Audience: Graduate Entrepreneurs – pre and new start business
Support Available:
Growing Graduate Enterprise is an enhanced business start-up and growth programme aimed at
supporting Lincolnshire’s graduate talent (graduates from Lincoln’s Universities and graduate
residents in Lincolnshire having graduated elsewhere), to make the most of their academic and
entrepreneurial abilities. Support available ranges from `light touch' development needs analysis
through to more intensive support such as coaching/mentoring, tailored support as well as
information advice and guidance.
Support offered:
1:1 Mentoring and support
Group training including Workshops and Bootcamps
£2,500 funding (split into 2 payments of £1,000 and £1,500)
Individual needs assessment leading to targeted action plan and support
A minimum of 30 hours of support for each individual on the scheme
Eligibility Criteria:
A graduate or someone who will have graduated within the last three years, before their
business start date
A final year student who will have graduated before their business start date (will not be
starting their business until they have graduated)
Have confirmed that they have not yet commenced trading with their business idea
Have confirmed that they have no visa restrictions which prevent them from legally setting
up a business in the UK
Intend to start a business during the placement period in the Greater Lincolnshire area
Live in the Greater Lincolnshire Area
Have a viable business idea that does not fall into one of the restricted sectors (see website
for details)
Applicants are required to complete a short application form which will be followed by 15 hours of
training and support after which they will pitch their business idea to a panel. If accepted, the
applicant can start trading and access diagnostic support and a £1,000 grant. After this, a further 15
hours of training is delivered to the applicant, after which they can receive the final £1,500 grant.
Website: http://www.businesslincolnshire.com/advice-grant-scheme-finder/212/growing-graduate-
enterprise
Contact: Claire Butler (Student Enterprise Co-ordinator at the University of Lincoln) on 01522
837860 or email: studententerprise@lincoln.ac.uk
37Other Programmes
Talent Match
Project Name: Talent Match Humber
Project Sponsor: Humber Learning Consortium
Launch Date / Status: Jan 2014 - Live
End Date: December 2018
Target Audience: 18-24, 12 month unemployed
Delivery Partners:
Vulcan, Activ Humber, Empower, CPO Media, Foresight, Catzero Grimsby, Catzero Hull, Ongo, Skills 4
Communities, Probe, Hull College, Giroscope, Activfirst, Cert, Construction Works, Goodwin
Development Trust, HYA, Mencap, National Safety Training Services
Geographic Coverage: Humber wide
Support Available:
Organisations to ‘think outside the box’. Innovative, unique and personalised programmes with
strong engagement and progression activities are what they deliver. Most providers a menu of
different services and activities, including specialist support (debt, housing etc.) and clear linkages
and progression routes between all of these. Holistic programmes with flexible hours which are
designed to meet the young people’s needs.
Programmes include:
Assessment of needs (initial, formative and summative)
Additional support as required e.g. debt advice, housing, health, disability etc.
Regular high quality Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG)
Quality Job search support
Functional Skills support
Personal Development support
Employability Skills support
Structured work/voluntary experience
Enterprise support/experience
Further learning and training opportunities
Outcomes into a job, enterprise, or an apprenticeship
Delivery includes:
Core model - is a flexible programme of training and support consisting of a pathway of 240 -
300 Guided Support Hours. Pathway is split into three with payments every 80-100 hours.
We would expect to see at least three reviews per pathway payment
Functional Skills Model - Research from Job Centre Plus has identified a strong need for Pre-
Entry Level, Entry Level 1 and Entry Level 2 Functional Skills delivery in the Humber. Talent
Match Humber are looking for providers that can deliver high quality, lower level functional
38skills to the Talent Match target group. We are looking for provision that will move
beneficiaries’ skills on, while not proscribing a set level they must reach. Functional Skills
Models should consist of a minimum of 400 Guided Support Hours. Pathway is split into four
with payments every 100-150 hours. We would expect to see at least three reviews per
pathway payment
Mentoring Model - Mentoring schemes should utilise and signpost to existing provision. We
would expect mentoring programmes to last for twelve months, with pathway payments
every three months. We would expect to see at least three reviews per pathway payment,
with weekly contact
We are not currently looking to tender for Mentoring provision in Hull, unless it is targeted
at a specific thematic group
Website: www.talentmatch-humber.org.uk
Contact: vicky.holbeck@hlc-vol.org
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