The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Foundation (HIWCF) has launched a second round of funding worth £700,000 through the ‘Solent Supporting Employment’ Grant Programme.
Community groups, charities and not-for-profit organisations can apply for grants of between £30,000 to £60,000, to support local people wanting to get back into employment.
The grants will enable organisations with a proven record in employability to offer new and innovative projects, enabling those from BAME communities, people with disabilities, and people marginalised by factors such as mental health, age, childcare needs and homelessness to move closer towards, or into employment.
The first round of funding in Autumn last year supported 11 local organisations which shared grants worth £795,000.
Rebecca Kennelly MBE, Chair of Trustees at HIWCF, comments:
“HIWCF is delighted to be managing the £1.76 million Solent Supporting Employment Programme, providing vital opportunities for people to find their way into work during these difficult times. These grants will increase job prospects for local people and we are extremely grateful to all involved in this partnership including our HIWCF donors, as it is thanks to all of their support that this programme is possible.”
Helen Stratton-Evans, Solent Supporting Employment Contract Manager, adds:
“Applicants planning to apply for this funding should firstly register for one of the four briefing webinars taking place during February 2021, via our website www.hiwcf.com. The aim of the briefings is to ensure awareness of the differing funding criteria which varies across the Portsmouth, Southampton, Hampshire and Isle of Wight regions. Grants are available from the HIWCF website hiwcf.com/grants and we ask that all applications are submitted before the closing date at midnight on 1st March 2021.”
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The programme has been created by the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and is part-funded by the European Social Fund, with match funding provided by Hampshire County Council, Portsmouth City Council, Southampton City Council and HIWCF donors. The focus is on helping people in areas where deprivation and unemployment are high.
The grants will enable organisations with a proven record in employability to offer new and innovative projects, enabling those from BAME communities, people with disabilities, and people marginalised by factors such as mental health, age, childcare needs and homelessness to move closer towards, or into employment.
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so, if you support white, british citizens, who are able bodied and have a home, but no job, you cannot apply – talk about discrimination.
They should be ashamed of theirselves, as their media presentation infers that some are excluded.
It’s called positive discrimination and totally legal, try and do that with any other ethnicity.
it is not legal to discriminate against anybody – they would lose in court as they are required to treat all applicants on merit not skin colour.
discrimination, is discrimination, whichever way you dress it up.
The phrase positive discrimination is a 20th Century thing that no longer works in this century, as it consistently fails in its overall intention and only succeeds in creating a mediocre result, as criteria is not merit or capability based.