Enterprising Communities - 2.5 Year Project

Local Leagues are in the process of bringing to a close a programme with Enterprising Communities working across the EC area to target individuals to receive mentoring and learning support and to redirect them into opportunities to get them into employment or mainstream learning provision. 

Big Lottery - Young Peoples Fund - 3 Year Project

A programme using sport as a medium, to facilitate young people into entering further training and/or employment. 

Communities & Local Government

A programme to provide sporting activities, mentoring, and otherdiversionary activities for young people whilst tackling the issues around the risk of radicalisation and preventing violent extremism. The programme seeks to create links and develop a dialogue between students (and others at risk of radicalisation) and local decision makers with the purpose of seeking to draw the targeted people into mainstream community life.

Positive Futures

Working with young people who are in fear of, or involved in crime related activity and providing sports activities across the Springfield and Sparkbrook wards to engage and encourage them into more positive formal activity.  The beneficiaries are aged between 10-19 year old and a number of activities (including one-off tournaments / day trips) are offered.

NRF - 7 Year Project

Employment Through Sport, providing sports and training activities in schools, public open spaces and community venues impacting on health and educational development.  This project is on going due to phenomenal successes achieved by Local Leagues with engagement well over and above targets. Since 2000 the Project Officer - Local Committees - have endorsed complete achievement of outcomes and claims towards this project on a continual basis has shifted local floor targets to improve figures for the local area.

Learning Skills Council - 2.5 Year Project

Local Leagues is currently delivering on behalf of the Learning Skills Council a programme to target 16 – 18 year olds who are in NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) to receive information, guidance, and advice, and through sport coupled with support and mentoring opportunities, provide them with transferable skills to gain some form of employment or training.  The amount granted for this project is ₤100,000 and the target is to engage 70 people into training and employment.  Local Leagues have already have achieved 55 and the project is due to finish in December 07, which means that this project will also be exceeded.

Single Regeneration Budget Round 2 - over 2 years

This was a programme for the over 24’s that would utilise local community venues to deliver sports based activities and to engage people into employment by providing work experience and training within the sport sector. Local Leagues exceeded all targets – including employment targets – by 20% it was given a strong recommendation by the board and was acknowledged within the final report of SRB2 as a project for further continuation.

EDD / New Deal 18 – 24 - over 3 years

A training / coaching programme providing work experience for young people.  This provided a high outcome of people moving to employment, with the expected output being 40% into employment, but the actual output standing at 47% (120 people engaged into employment).

Home Office - over 1 year

To stimulate social inclusion through sport and to improve engagement with hard to reach communities.  This intervention was to provide sports activities to different communities and reduce social exclusion.  Outcomes were exceeded by over 200% of engaging young people.

Government Office - over 1 year

A programme to provide training and support by mentoring to encourage young people to engage with mainstream activities.  The programme was a preventative and diversionary measure of activities through which Local Leagues over achieved the outcomes by 150%.

GOWM – ESF - over 2.5 years

Mentoring and training programme for the 25+ age group to access employment opportunities in the Leisure and Tourism Industry. The target was 94 people, but actual output was 106 – 113% over achieved.  This project was fully audited by GOWM and recommended that the project did exceed original outcomes stated

LSC - over 1 year

A package to provide support, mentoring and capacity building to encourage people back into employment.  Working in partnership with community based organisations and training centres, this programme provided people the qualifications to move into the commercial sector and provided employment in the transportation industry.  Local Leagues are currently running another programme with the LSC and meeting the targets with one of the most difficult cohorts to engage, the 16-18 not in education, Employment or Training.

Youth Offending Services

This programme provided funding for holiday schemes (i.e. half term and summer holidays) and was a preventive strategy to draw on raw energies into positive activities.