Please click on the links below to navigate to a brief description of the contracts being delivered by Consortium partners

Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities

Train to Gain

Cultivating Skills in Rural Areas

Community Grants

NEET Coordinated Respond Fund (Restart)

Adult Engagement Fund

Learning Innovation Grant (LIG 5)

CAWD Workforce Development Project

Future Jobs Fund

Think Positive

 

 

 

Learning and Skills Council Contracts

Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities

Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities (NLDC) funding aims to support local Third Sector organisations in developing their capacity to deliver learning opportunities for the residents of disadvantaged neighbourhoods. NYLC is now managing the third round of NLDC funding for the sub-region and in the first 2 rounds created over 700 learning opportunities, via more than 40 Third Sector organisations.

In addition, considerable capacity building activities have taken place both in terms of improving internal capacity within Third Sector organisations and equipping community venues. Over £180,000 has been invested in a wide variety of capital equipment ranging from laptops to podcasts and accessible media for learners with additional barriers. In addition, nine organisations have been supported to achieve the Matrix and Investors in People Quality Standards, with a further 16 accessing one-to-one capactiy building support.

VIEW NLDC PROJECTS SUMMARY (Microsoft Word Document)

 

Train to Gain

Train to Gain is the Government's flagship service to support employers of all sizes and in all sectors, to improve the skills of their employees, unlock talent and drive improved business performance. NYLC is now in its second year of delivering Train to Gain throughout York and North Yorkshire via a partnership of Third Sector training providers.

Current partners are:

  Activ8 Learning          Core Values           Wilf Ward Family Trust  

 Barnardo's                 Training & Coaching Associates                          Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

                                                           

The partnership offers Skills For Life diagnostic and training a well as NVQ's at Level 2 and 3 in a broad range of subjects including, Business Admin, Food and Drink, ITQ, Environmental Conservation, Playwork and Management Qualifications.

 

Cultivating Skills in Rural Areas

Rural Skills is an action research project designed to advance the knowledge, understanding and practice of skills development in a changing rural economy. The project focuses on rural disadvantage and is examining how equality and diversity challenges are manifested in rural areas and how skills development can assist in addressing these issues. NYLC have identified four organisations to deliver innovative pilot projects that aim to overcome barriers associated with rural isolation. Through ongoing monitoring and evaluation, the project aims to build an evidence base and review the effectiveness of different types of interventions. The project will examine how pockets of severe rural deprevation can be hidden within otherwise affluent areas and what steps can be taken to effectively reduce them.

 

LSC-ESF Co-Financed Contracts

Community Grants

VIEW COMMUNITY GRANTS SUMMARY (Microsoft Word Document)

 

NYLC is the North Yorkshire lead for the Yorkshire and Humber Community Grants Programme, fund managed by Humber Learning Consortium. The project was launched in January 2009 and aims to support small organisations (turnover <£300k, <9FTE staff) to provide learning opportunities that move participants closer to employment. Types of activity that can funded include; initial help with basic skills, taster work experience including; voluntary work, confidence building personal development and job search assistance. The programme is funding 30 organisations to provide flexible and innovative interventions to over 600 learners.

 

NEET Coordinated Respond Fund (Restart)

Fund managed by VT Enterprises, NYLC leads a Third Sector partnership of 3 delivery partners providing learning to 100 teenagers aged between 14-19 who are NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) or at risk of becoming NEET.

Learning is diverse and ranges from environmental conservation and creative arts to personal development, confidence building and job-search skills.

Partners are:

BTCV              Carers' Resource (Harrogate)         Rural Arts

 

Adult Engagement Fund

NYLC is the lead partner for Adult Engagement in Scarborough, fund managed by Craven College. The project aims to engage 'harder to reach' workless adults into first steps learning opportunities, to raise aspirations and for learners to progress onto further accredited learning, employment or volunteering. The partnership consists of four organisations offering engagement support, IAG and a range of accredited and non-accredited learning opportunities.

They are:

Carers' Resource Scarborough & Ryedale        Core Values

Training & Coaching Associates (TCA)           Yorkshire Coast Enterprise

 

Association of Learning Providers (ALP)

Learning Innovation Grant (LIG 5)

This NYLC-led pilot project, initiated through the Care Alliance for Workforce Development (CAWD), has enabled partnership working between private, statutory and third sector organisation across the sub-region.

The project aims to build the capacity of social care training providers, create a more highly skilled and consistently trained social care workforce, and ultimately provide a higher quality of service to social care customers. The project has funded a suite of high quality e-learning packages relevant for the adult social care sector enabling the completion of e-learning to be tracked by hosting the suite of packages on a managed learning environment.

 

Skills For Care

CAWD Workforce Development Project

NYLC is one of the North Yorkshire delivery partners in this wide ranging project which aims to raise the profile of social care as a first class employment sector. The project, funded by Skills for Care, and managed sub-regionally by the Care Alliance for Workforce Development (CAWD) aims to improve the confidence of employers in the competence of their workforce, the confidence of employees in their knowledge and skills and the confidence of the users in the quality of service provided.

 

Department of Work and Pensions Contracts

Future Jobs Fund

Future Jobs Fund is a fund of around £1billion to support the creation of jobs for long term unemployed young people who face significant disadvantage in the labour market. NYLC has achieved three rounds of funding for this programme resulting in securing 180 future jobs for young people across York and North Yorkshire. The ''offer'' for young people is diverse and includes retail, admin/secretarial, vehicle maintenance, animal welfare, environmental roles, digital and creative arts and media with roles created by a wide range of Third Sector employers.

 

DWP/ESF Co-Financed Contract

Think Positive

NYLC is the North Yorkshire lead partner in this exciting programme working in partnership with prime provider the Employment and Skills Group (ESG). It aims to provide flexible, tailored support to customers in receipt of Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) with learning difficulties or mental ill health to address personal and skills barriers that are preventing them from seeking and achieving sustainable employment. The programme is needs-led and each customer will undergo an initial assessment which aims to highlight their specific barries to employment and inform an action plan leading to a tailored programme of activities that aim to overcome these barriers and gain employment.

Partners delivering on this project are:

A1 Community Works Disability Action Yorkshire

Growing With Grace   Orb Enterprises            

SHoRes (South              Whitby DAG           

          Holderness Resource Centre)

Yorkshire Coast Enterprises