The Full Employment Sheffield project builds upon two existing Objective One funded projects, and brings these together. Sheffield Jobnet, which was established in Jan 2001, is a bridge between the supply side and demand side of the employment market and Sheffield ILM, established in 1997 as a mechanism to tackle unemployment by giving long term unemployed individuals waged employment for up to 1 year, in order that they could demonstrate their employability to employers.
The aim of Full Employment Sheffield is to bring the projects together to create a higher degree of synergy, thus maximising the impact of economic growth by ensuring that the residents of Sheffield’s deprived communities are connected to, and able to take up new and emerging jobs, in the city arising from inward investment and buoyant indigenous employers.
The main client group targeted by the project will be Sheffield residents, aged 16-65, who are without work. The particular focus will be given to targeting the long term unemployed, ex-offenders, members of the city’s Black & Ethnic Minority (B&EM) communities and economically inactive residents including; those on disability benefits; lone parents; those who have never worked. The ILM and jobnet have a strong presence within the BNDfC area, both of which have been successful at placing local people into jobs.
Contact details
Donna Hodgson, Paul Toner and Kellan Myers
Centre for Full Employment, Aizlewood Business Centre, Aizlewoods Mill, Nursery Street, Sheffield, S3 8GG.
Telephone: 0114 282 3381
Fax: 0114 282 3385
Email: enquiries@cffe.org.uk
Website: http://www.cffe.org.uk/