Launched this week, Hounslow Council is working with London Councils and the London Economic Action Partnership to fund a Borough Employment project over 17 months from January 2019.
The total European Social Fund (ESF) available for the project is £175,400, and the council is looking for potential providers to bid for the funding and offer opportunities for local residents.
The project aims to help out-of-work Hounslow residents aged 25 and over who are either long term unemployed or economically inactive secure employment opportunities with local businesses in Hounslow’s Digital, Media, Tech and Creative sectors, either through achieving relevant training/qualifications or direct employment. Read more
The closing date to submit your bid is 12 noon on Friday 26 October, 2018.
Archives for October 2018
Thriving Communities Strategy workshops
As some of you may know, the Council is currently working on a new Thriving Communities Strategy to cover the period 2019 to 2023. The strategy will begin by setting out a shared understanding of what a Thriving Community looks like, and go on to define what the council, residents and voluntary sector groups can do to help achieve Thriving Communities in Hounslow.
Some of you took part in workshops earlier this year run by independent organisations MEL Research and Rocket Science, which sought your views on the CouncilÂ’s current approach to community engagement and how we work with the voluntary and community sector. The information from these workshops is being used to inform our draft strategy. We would now like to invite you to take part in the next stage of developing the draft strategy, via a series of workshops which will ask whether we have correctly reflected your views, in particular on what makes a Thriving Community and what the priority areas for the strategy should be if we are going to achieve this for Hounslow.
Three workshops have been arranged for community or voluntary sector groups over the 16 and 17 October. Â You can book a place using this link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thriving-communities-strategy-review-vcse-workshops-tickets-50863849142
If you have any questions about the workshops, please contact us on community.development@hounslow.gov.uk
London Early Years Campaign – funding opportunity
City Hall will soon be inviting proposals from organisations to apply for small grants as part of our London Early Years Campaign.
The Mayor is offering a total of £150,000 to improve awareness of free early education for 2-year-olds and increase take up of places by eligible families.
City Hall will award a maximum of 30 grants of between £5,000 and £15,000 each to local projects. The proposals must target areas of low take up and evidence how they will effectively engage families and communities who are currently missing out on this vital offer.
Interested bidders should have excellent links with local communities and understanding of barriers to take up of early education specific to those communities. They expect the applicants to have strong partnerships with their respective local authorities in order to understand their local childcare market, and with their local early years providers in order to provide families with access to a childcare place.
Delivery is expected to take place between January 2019 and September 2019.
The Greater London Authority (GLA) will run a pan-London social media campaign to support the local activities and to enhance their impact.
They will be holding an information session for organisations interested in the London Early Years Campaign on Friday 12 October at 10am at City Hall. The session will provide:
- an overview of the programme specification and application process
- opportunity to ask questions
- opportunity to network with early years sector organisations
You can register and find out further information via their Eventbrite page
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