Help support people into work

Are you passionate about making a difference in your community?

Within our Local Outcome Improvement Plan, we are focused on supporting people into good quality and fair work opportunities either through employment, starting up their own business, and upskilling our residents through skills and qualification/training opportunities. To help us achieve our aims, we need people across our communities to help us identify, design, and test a range of improvements.

We have a range of projects that we’d like you to get involved in. These include:

• Supporting all people, with a focus on ethnic minority communities, priority neighbourhoods, and people over 50 into sustained, good-quality employment.
• Supporting business start-ups to help people reduce or come off benefits.
• Upskilling people experiencing digital barriers to apply for employment opportunities.
• Supporting young parents in training and/or employability.
• Supporting people to gain employability skills via volunteering opportunities.
• Increasing employer sign up to the Real Living Wage.

By getting involved, you can help identify, design, and test improvements to support people in work in your community and across the city. How you want to get involved is up to you. The first step is to let us know which area or project you’re interested in by completing our form.

A member of the Community Planning Team or the relevant improvement project manager responsible for the project you are interested in getting involved in will get in touch to have an initial discussion on how you would like to participate. Together, we can create a better future for our city.

Please see the privacy notice on how we will process your information.