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Future Jobs Success for Rhyl
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Secretary of State for Wales Peter
Hain today (15th September) hailed the success of a North Wales
partnership to create more than 320 new jobs in Conwy and
Denbighshire with funding from a £1billion UK-wide Government
employment initiative. Read
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Get Skilled Up!
Following a highly successful pilot earlier this year, Coleg
Llandrillo Rhyl are running another series of "Get Skilled Up"
courses in partnership with Rhyl City Strategy. The two-week
courses offer basic skills learning through a range of vocational
topics; retail, business admin and IT, construction and motor
vehicle. The courses have been funded by Basic Skills
Cymru. For more information or to book a place contact Jennie
Bishop on 01745 354797, Course Details...
Reaching Heights Bid
Rhyl Youth Action Group and Rhyl City Strategy
partnered together to bid into the Reaching Heights Fund,
administered by Arts Council Wales to provide 50 young people at
risk of becoming or currently NEETS (not in employment, eduction or
training) with a photomission experience. Read More
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In the first round of DAF (Deprived Area Fund) money, TAPE, a
film and song writing organisation were supported to run ten weeks
of workshops in Dewi Sant (a day centre for homeless and substance
mis-users). There were fifteen participants, several songs
were written and Clywd Street Broad Band was formed. Read More... |
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Small Corporate Health Award
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As part of a continued commitment to improving health and
wellbeing in the workplace as part of the "Small Corporate Health
Award", the Rhyl City Strategy Team walked to Aber Falls on a
beautiful afternoon in June 2009. The event doubled as the
team's Christmas (2008!) get-together. Jennie and Ali also
took part in the South West Rhyl Communities First 5 mile Fun Run
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FUTURE JOBS FUND; EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
The Department of Work and Pensions is
currently inviting bids for its new programme – Future Jobs. The
Future Jobs Fund is offering around £1 billion to support the
creation of jobs for long term unemployed young people and others
who face significant disadvantage in the labour market. The
Fund was announced in the 2009 Budget and is to be spent over the
next two years. The Fund aims to create 150,000 jobs, aimed
primarily at 18-24 year olds who have been out of work for over 10
months. LINK TO FUTURE JOBS GUIDANCE
ILM Scheme Underway
WCVA’s new Intermediate Labour Market (ILM) scheme making £13m
of European funds available to reduce economic inactivity in North
Wales is now underway. The ILM will operate in the Convergence
areas of North Wales and offer contracts of up to £150,000.
WCVA will invite organisations on its approved supplier list to
tender for appropriate contracts. To join the approved supplier
list, organisations need to complete and submit a pre qualification
questionnaire (PQQ) by Tuesday 2 June 2009. For a PQQ or general
information leaflet on the ILM, contact the WCVA Helpdesk on 0800
2888 329 or email ilm@wcva.org.uk or visit the following website
link:
http://www.wcva.org.uk/news/dsp_news.cfm?newsid=1281
SKILLS FOR RHYL
Rhyl City Strategy is starting the New
Year with a programme of training courses to help local unemployed
people develop skills to support them into work.
Local residents were invited to come
along to find out more about the programme and to sign up for
courses at two open days, held at the Oaktree Centre and the White
Rose Centre on 12th and 16th January. Anyone who is currently
unemployed/economically inactive and living in Rhyl is eligible to
take part in the training, which has been funded through the Welsh
Assembly Government's Department of Children, Education and
Lifelong Learning to tackle skills shortages and economic
inactivity in the town.
The programme covers a wide range of
skills including health and social care, countryside management and
horticulture, business administration, hospitality and catering and
lifeguards, as well as courses to help people in their personal
development and motivation. The courses will take place in a
range of community venues across Rhyl, with most courses starting
in January. Courses are provided by Coleg Llandrillo Rhyl /
Rhos, Zeta Training, North Wales Training, Teambuild Wales, BTCV
Cymru, Future Builders, Cymdeithas Tai Hafon, SOVA and TAPE.
For further information to the
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Get Into
Short Courses that develop young people's skills in a specific
sector
and supports them into jobs
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Training Hotel
As part of its vision for the next two years,
Rhyl City Strategy is working with partners to develop a number of
schemes offering ‘intermediate labour market’ opportunities.
These schemes will
allow individuals further from the labour market an opportunity
to
gain hands-on training in a real working environment, often within
a social enterprise. A number of ILMs were funded through the
previous Objective One programme, and Convergence funding has
recently been announced for a new North Wales ILM programme run by
the Wales Council for Voluntary Action.
One of Rhyl City Strategy’s more ambitious
plans is to establish a “training hotel” social enterprise.
The venture will offer a first class service to visitors to the
area, while offering skills training in the hospitality sector to
unemployed and economically inactive individuals. The
project is in its early stages, with a business plan currently in
preparation, and with a steering group looking for a potential site
to establish the proposed facility. We would like to hear
from you if you think you can contribute to the proposed project in
any way.
Lifeguards
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Eighteen unemployed individuals started a two
week training course to become qualified lifeguards
on 20th February 2009, Read More
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Catering Course
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An award ceremony has been organised for the 3rd April
and certificates will be presented by
Chris Ruane MP. Read
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The Welsh Assembly Government's Departments of
Children, The Department for Children, Education and
Lifelong Learning has announced funding of £172,000 for a Rhyl City
Strategy employability and training scheme to tackle skills
shortages and economic inactivity in the town. Read More...
Retail Skills@the
HUB
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Spring 2009 will see the opening of an exciting new facility in
Wellington Road, West Rhyl. Retail Skills@ the HUB is Rhyl
City Strategy's new retail training centre in the heart of the
community, and will be opening its doors to its first group of
learners, Read
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OakTree Centre
Rhyl City Strategy held a
successful day at the Oaktree Centre regarding training,
volunteering and work opportunities in conjunction with Coleg
Llandrillo Rhyl, Mental Health UK, Denbighshire Voluntary Services,
Reed Employment and North Wales Energy Efficiency Advice
Centre and a number of other organisations.
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Celebrate Success
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Rhyl City Strategy has gained recognition for its
partnership working, through a nomination by Princes Trust Cymru
for their, "Partnership Innovation Award 2008". Read more...
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Secretary of State James Purnell has announced that Rhyl City
Strategy will receive continuation funding from the Department of
Work and Pensions for a further two years. All 15 strategy
Pathfinders are to be extended until 2011, receiving a further £5
Million between them to continue to build their capacity. Read More...
Rhyl City Strategy has awarded £110,000 of Deprived Area
Funding to support a range of initiatives to help people into
work.
Small Workplace Health
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The project team completed the Race for Life in Rhyl in June
2008, as well as making an attempt up Snowdon in August (before
poor weather condition and childcare responsibilities forces a
retreat). Read More... |