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Brief update on the Future Jobs Fund
12 January 2010
The initial phase of the Future jobs Fund programme is underway across the North West with the first people starting work in October and November. Third sector organisations are getting heavily involved, mainly through their local and sub regional economic partnerships.
- The fund is targeted at young people aged 18-24 who have been unemployed for more than 9 but less than 12 months and people of all ages in unemployment ‘hotspots’
- Jobs must last 6 months and pay at least the National Minimum Wage. Working hours requirements vary across the region.
- Job search, personal development and progression are an integral part of the programme, organisations are encouraged particularly to consider apprenticeships and Train to Gain opportunities for their Future Jobs Fund employees.
- Each job must be new and additional – it would not have existed without the funding provided by the Future Jobs Fund. It must also meet the ‘newspaper test’. If this job was advertised in your local paper would anyone apply for it?
- All jobs must have a community benefit.
To find out more about the Future Jobs Fund, please read VSNW's guidance: The Future Jobs Fund: A good start?
Featured Event
Open Public Services - Passage of a bill workshop
This VSNW/Parliamentary Outreach Service event will explore the stages that the bill would go through, their relative importance and ways to engage and influence
Featured News
Transforming Local Infrastructure Fund results announced
The beneficiaries of the £30 million fund to help transform and modernise local charity support services have been announced by Nick Hurd, Minister for Civil Society.
Relaunch of Voluntary Sector Cuts Website
The Voluntary Sector Cuts website has now been relaunched with additional functionality to enable VCS organisations to records cuts to funding and their effects
Views sought on Department of Health draft statutory guidance
VSNW are requesting your views on draft statutory guidance as support for joint strategic needs assessments and health and wellbeing strategies
Events & Trainings
VSNW’s list of events & training opportunities for VCS groups in the North West
