Building Better Opportunities:
Tyne and Wear
HARNESSING THE SECTOR OFFER
What this event is about
• Explaining the Big Red Ladder consortium
• Outlining the current guidance from NELEP about the BBO
project in Tyne and Wear
• Gauging interest in potential partnerships
• Discussing possible methodologies
Big Red Ladder…?
• A consortium of VCSE organisations
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Locality
MHM
NESEP
Scottish Social Enterprise Academy
Your Back Yard
…and more
• Built upon shared values
• Facilitating a holistic methodology
• Focused upon best possible outcomes
for participants
• Leaving a legacy of delivery and support
capacity in the sector
Building Better Opportunities
AKA Big Lottery Opt-in
• Joint programme between Big Lottery Fund and ESF
• Pre-matched and paid upfront (in tranches)
• Intended amongst other things to facilitate the inclusion of smaller organisations by lightening
the cashflow load and providing support for complex EU compliance and monitoring issues
• Programmes in all three NELEP areas (Co Durham, Tyne & Wear and Northumberland) with
equivalents in other LEP areas
• Stage one applications now open, deadline August 3rd 2015 at noon.
Tyne and Wear Project outline as per NELEP guidance
- The project title is “Multiple Barriers to Employment”
- £7.2 Million available – bidder must apply/account for the full amount
- Project to start March 2016, project must be closed by August 2019 (December
2019 latest). They do say there may be scope for extension once projects are
underway however
- Stage one application deadline: 3rd August
( Full guidance for the Northumberland programme is here )
Project Aims
• The intent of the project in Tyne and Wear is to help people
• from the most disadvantaged groups in Tyne and Wear…
• …who are furthest from the job market…
• …and who experience significant barriers to work.
•The funding within the project is weighted across three themes:
◦ Multiple barriers to employment (80%)
◦ Financial Inclusion (10%)
◦ Digital Inclusion (10%)
• In the stage one application, the provider must clearly define a detailed approach to each
theme and demonstrate how participants can be directed to the most appropriate provision
Activities undertaken in the project
• Very wide remit, as long as the right people are reached and helped in the right ways.
• In other words, the specific activities are determined by the applicants
• “Innovative delivery models” are encouraged: we think small organisations will offer the most
innovation
• The LEP’s project guidance does provide a list of possible activities
Participants
• Participants in the project are identified in the full guidance, but broadly speaking they comprise
those most disadvantaged and furthest from the labour market:
• “All participants must be unemployed or economically inactive as defined in our programme guide.
The project will have 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:
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people in households where no one works
long term unemployed people
young people not in employment, education or training
disabled people
ethnic minority groups
offenders (not in custody) and ex offenders
people aged over 50;
people with multiple disadvantages (for example, education, health, employment, social support, housing and
local environment)”
Outputs and Results
The NELEP outline defines the minimum results required as an outcome of their project as
follows:
• 1,740 people are engaged in activities to improve their work readiness
• 226 people enrolled on the project move into education or training on leaving
• 226 people move into employment, including self-employment, on leaving
• 235 people who were economically inactive when joining the project move into
• Employment (including self-employment) or job-search on leaving
• 145 people who need access to childcare receive childcare support
Are you in?
• Fill in the expression of interest found on the NESEP web site (http://www.nesep.co.uk)
• Email it to bob@nesep.co.uk