Employability
Community Engagement Fund 2024 to 2025
The Highland Employability Partnership (HEP) have agreed to launch the 2024 to 2025 Community Engagement Fund.
The aim of the fund is to support Highland based community and third-sector organisations to run a variety of activities in their local community that will engage and support people who could benefit from extra help to secure employment or to help low-income working families to potentially grow their household income. A key aim of the fund is to generate new referrals to the Highland Employability Service. An expectation of all successful applications is that anyone taking part in activities supported by this fund who can and wants to work are referred to the Highland Employability Service for further support.
Whilst the fund is open to all out of work people aged 16 to 67, we know that some families are particularly vulnerable to poverty and a priority of this fund is to engage with families at greatest risk to secure or progress in employment. These priority families are:
- Lone parent families
- Minority ethnic families
- Families with disabled parents or children
- Families with 3 or more children
- Families where the youngest child is aged under 1
- Families where the mother is aged under 25
Participants should have left school and be between the ages of 16 and 67 years old.
Bids can be made by non-profit organisations based in Highland communities to organise activities that could help people of all ages secure employment or advance in their current job.
Make sure to read the guidelines for this fund before completing the application form.
Applications can be submitted at any time through to 5pm on Thursday 31 October 2024.