Opportunity Sheffield has launched its 2024-25 employment support provision, which aims to support at least 620 unemployed and economically inactive people into work.
As part of Skills & Employability South Yorkshire, the Council’s Employment and Skills service has commissioned a range of keyworker projects with Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) providers.
Projects have been commissioned across the city to maximise coverage and accessibility to services for residents, with additional targeting in areas of high demand, including the East, North-East, and South of Sheffield.
All projects under this provision deliver 1:1 keyworker support from an experienced employment advisor to build confidence, improve employability skills, identify jobs, opportunities and enable progress into work. Providers across the city include:
Locality-based projects
- Burngreave Works Limited (North-East)
- Equal Communities (South)
- Heeley Trust (Gleadless Valley)
- Manor and Castle Development Trust (East)
- SOAR Community (North-East and North)
- South Yorkshire Housing Association (Central)
- Tinsley Forum (North-East)
- Together For Sheffield (Central)
- Zest (Central)
Targeted support
- Care for Young People’s Future (Roma community)
- Depaul UK (homeless / accommodation barriers)
- Equal Communities (Pakistani Women)
- Infinite Skills CIC (Somali community)
- Manor and Castle Development Trust (ex-offenders)
- Sharrow Community Forum (Hong Kong community)
- Sheffield Futures (care experienced)
- Voluntary Action Sheffield (Refugees & Asylum Seekers).
Engagement courses
- A Mind Apart Theatre Company Limited
- Arundel Lane Studios
- Down2U Phyisotherapy Ltd
- Endeavour Training Limited
Specialist health projects
- Autism Centre for Supported Employment (Autism supported employment)
- Autism Plus (Autism)
- South Yorkshire Housing Association Limited (mental health)
Wraparound support
- Citizen’s Advice Bureau – debt support
- Green Tree Therapy – solution-based brief therapy
- The Suit Works – interview clothing
Employment support activity delivered by Sheffield’s VCS is already operational, following the switch to the UK Shared Prosperity Fund support from December 2023.
All projects under this employment support provision are initially funded until March 2025.
To find out more, email: opportunity@sheffield.gov.uk
Visit: www.sheffield.gov.uk/business/employment-skills
About Skills & Employability South Yorkshire
Skills & Employability South Yorkshire is being delivered by a partnership of the four South Yorkshire local authorities. The programme is part-funded by UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, and by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority and the local authorities of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield.
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