Local Grants

Engagement Gateway Projects Wrexham

To access these individual projects you must be either unemployed or on other benefits but not claiming JSA/ESA, have a National Insurance number, be over 16 and live in Wrexham County.

For more information contact Beth Vaughan 01978 312556 beth.vaughan@avow.org

The National Autistic Society

The NAS will engage with adults and young people with Asperger Syndrome in Cardiff, Newport and Wrexham to provide the Social eyes skills programme in order to build confidence and address the barriers that often prevent them from accessing opportunities to move towards volunteering and appropriate employment.

Steve Smith 07748 703254 steve.smith@nas.org.uk

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CAIS Ltd

CAIS will provide ‘Skills-Active’, a programme of motivational interventions, trading and support to participants who are economically inactive and are either at risk from or have been affected by substance misuse. Services will be delivered from CAIS’s open access facility in Wrexham, where participants will also receive vocational support.

Mandy Smith 01978 314314 mandy.smith@cais.org.uk

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Coleg Harlech

The project will engage individuals furthest away from the labour market via horticulture and health & well-being, and develop their confidence and skills to access further learning opportunities, progress into employment & participate more fully in their community.

Nicola Holmes 01978 318866 n.holmes@fc.harlech.ac.uk

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St John’s Wales

St John Wales will engage with 16-17 year olds in Wrexham not in education, employment or training, offering the chance to learn new skills and build confidence, enabling better access to education, employment and training. They will be guided through our youth programme, gaining qualifications, work experience, and interpersonal skills.

Starting in December for more information contact Beth Vaughan.

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Caia Park Partnership

The project will provide people with support, information and practical help and advice to enable them to gain employment or to move on further education or volunteering

Barbie Bartlett 01978 310984 barbie.bartlett@caiapark.org

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Groundwork North Wales

Groundwork’s Gateway to Work’ will work with 168 local economically inactive participants to engage them in a programme of activities designed to move participants closer to the labour market. Volunteering opportunities will be available through existing Groundwork community projects helping to develop participants ‘green’ skills.

Groundwork Gateway to Work Team 01978 757524

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Home-Start and Family Friends 1

Home-Start and Family Friends will support economically inactive parents in Wrexham either one to one or in group situations with a tailored programme of confidence and self-esteem building activities supported by crèche provision. This will encourage and enable parents to access the labour market.

Family Friends support families with children aged from 5 –11 years

Home—Start support families with children under 5 years

Patricia Hughes 01978 366660 homsetarttcbw@lineone.net

Jane Robertson 01978 366115 familyfriends@lineone.net

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Home-Start and Family Friends 2

Home-Start/Family Friends will recruit predominantly women volunteers in Wrexham and train them to offer personalised support to families who are identified as vulnerable. Training will include Communication Skills, and also Turn2us e-learning which provides benefit and grant knowledge valuable to families who are struggling economically

Family Friends have volunteering with families with children aged from 5 –11 years

Home—Start have volunteering with families with children under 5 years

Patricia Hughes 01978 366660 homsetarttcbw@lineone.net

Jane Robertson 01978 366115 familyfriends@lineone.net