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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£4.6M
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Spending
£3.8M
Public benefits
Workforce offers vocational training and educational opportunities under programmes funded by the Department for Employment and Learning to assist marginalised people into work and for many - to help them in making a successful transition from post 16 education into the world of work. Workforce’s trainees achieve improved educational outcomes in
ICT, Literacy, Numeracy, Employability Skills and Personal and Social Development. As well as specific vocational skills development which assists people to integrate and also to become economically active. In the same period leavers achieved a total of 825 qualifications. For 63% of the leavers this was the first nationally recognized qualification that they ever achieved having left school without any qualifications. Careers and employability staff provide a time-tabled programme of careers advice and guidance, which is an integral part of our curriculum and meets well the needs of trainees and apprentices. Workforce has an established a Job Club which provides trainees and apprentices with a good range of high quality, well organised and up-to-date resources to support the development of employability and work-readiness skills. These arrangements enable most trainees and apprentices to make effective career decisions and to gain access to relevant work placements and viable progression pathways.”
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The direct benefits which flows includes a reduction in social marginalization through social, economic and educational disadvantage as well as a reduction in intolerance. 71% of those leaving our training programmes, 133 out of 143 from 1/4/13 to 31/03/14 achieved a positive progression into employment or higher level further education or training
at the end of their training with Workforce. In the same period leavers achieved a total of 825 qualifications. For 63% of the leavers this was the first nationally recognized qualification that they ever achieved having left school without any qualifications. A recent ETI report carried out in June 2014 at Workforce reported that;” The quality of arrangements for the care, guidance and support of trainees and apprentices is outstanding”. In February 2014 in our ‘Listening to Learners@ survey, 96% of respondents either agree or strongly agree the provision on offer at workforce matches their needs. All young people receive Personal and Social development and evaluations of this trainings effectiveness tells us that young people are more understanding of others following the training and that it has made the less prejudiced. A possibility exists that some employers may use work experience placements as a means of job substitution and for that reason we insist that all employers complete a partnership agreement to ensure that trainees are treated fairly. The benefit is for young people and adults socially marginalization through social, economic and educational disadvantage who live in the Greater Belfast travel to work area.There is no private benefit flowing from this purpose either incidental or necessary
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- The advancement of education
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Ethnic minorities
- Ex-offenders and prisoners
- General public
- Interface communities
- Learning disabilities
- Men
- Mental health
- Parents
- Sexual orientation
- Specific areas of deprivation
- Unemployed/low income
- Voluntary and community sector
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Community development
- Community enterprise
- Disability
- Economic development
- Education/training
- Relief of poverty
- Youth development
