Double success with London Youth and Talent Match
Earlier in the year, London Youth invited applications
to become their key partners to deliver the Talent Match programme in
London.
We are delighted to announce that our two partnership
applications to London Youth - with Collage Arts and Rinova
consortium members for a local delivery partnership in North London
and with the Princes Trust for the pan-London Enterprise gateway -
were the ones chosen by London Youth.
The Big Lottery
Fund has invested £100m UK-wide in Talent Match - a new
employability programme which over the next five years will aim to
create opportunities for young people aged 18-24 who have been out
of work, education or training for more than a year.
After all the hard work we did together to develop the
partnerships for these initial applications, London Youth, with all
its successful partners and its Youth Board, has taken its Talent
Match concept in London further and has submitted a detailed
business plan to the Big Lottery Fund. These partners include
Hackney CVS and Community Links (in terms of other 'geographical'
leads), our ERA partner Gingerbread (Specialist Support for
Young Parents and Carers) and 3SC (for Young People with
Disabilities).
If the business plan submitted by London Youth is accepted, the
programme is expected to go live in January 2014. You can see
some of our preparation here. Richard Parkes of Rinova said "It has
been a real pleasure to work with our partners and with London
Youth on our ideas to support the Talent Match concept - an amazing
and imaginitive initiative led by effective practice and youth work
principles. This opportunity to do something
'different' over the next five years is very badly needed in
London given the worsening position of long-term youth
unemployment. We are all keeping our fingers crossed for some
further good news from the Big Lottery Fund later in the
year".
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