CASE PROJECT (Citizens Access to Skills Employability) Helps you gain access to quality advice and guidance, emplyability training and job search support across the Black Country. You will benefit from the following practical workshops.

• IT Digital Computer Skills
• Suppoer with ESOL
• Business Start-Up Guidance & Support
• CV Writing
• Interview Preparation
• Presentation & Research Skills
• Teamwork Skills
• Conflict Management
• Volunteering Skills
• Effective Communication

And so much more….

For further information please contact :
Harminder K Bhogal (Project Lead)
0121 558 2249 / 07891 479 255
harminder@ceal.org.uk

Technical Enterprise Support leads to the Pathway into Employment (PiE) has been funded by the Wesleyan Foundation. Our plan is to work with local residents whose livelihood has been affected by, or potentially are at risk of unemployment due to COVID-19.  We know that thousands of people in this important sub-region will lose their jobs due to employers having to close their businesses especially when the Furlough Scheme ends. Our long-term plan is to offer dedicated enterprise and business support to support economic wellbeing in local areas.  

In partnership with our sister organisation, Global Entrepreneurial Development Services (GEDS) We are currently delivering online training via Zoom every Monday from 10.30 and 12.30pm. We also offer hourly 1-1 support sessions for participants experiencing multiple disadvantages.

Our research showed that there was limited support in existence for people new to business or those thinking about setting up their own enterprise.  Through the PiE programme of ongoing activities, the participants will learn to develop their ideas into busines prospects and also learn about how to do their web-filing, Corporation Tax Returns, Annual Statement of Accounts, Annual Returns and information to the Charity Commission (in the case of non-governmental organisations and others). They will also receive support in learning how to conduct e-marketing campaigns, support in budgeting and creating cashflows.  Participants will gain an invaluable knowledge and skills around IT and setting up their own marketing portals.

To register, please fill in this very short questionnaire and submit. We will then contact you.

https://forms.gle/mLJxgXrqqj67qfie7 

North East Wolverhampton project is part of a TRIO Partnership, CEAL was included in a successful Black Country IMPACT bid to extend our work in Wolverhampton with young people. We will deliver the project over a 14-month period; that is, February 2020 to April 2021 in  Wolverhampton. It involves engaging and supporting 30 young people aged 16-29  who will have access to 6-weeks of combined training and work placements.

Structured training will consist of sessions; viz., data protection, health, and safety in the workplace, problem-solving, management, negotiation, teamwork, punctuality, communications and other matters associated with the workplace. Each component will be complemented by one-to-one support for learners who have learning and/or other disabilities, and who might require personalised support to give them the confidence to engage the labour market. Both Placement Mentor and Risk Assessment Officer will be responsible for ensuring that learners and providers are fully informed about the type of placements, their duration and what each entails according to commercial, non-commercial and professional-type sectors.

Community Enterprise Learning Skills Under the rubric of the ESF Black Country Community Grants Programme, we continued supporting diverse communities by offering quality training on employability and entrepreneurship.

The overall purpose of the CELS Project was to “target, involve and engage residents of the Black Country with a particular focus on Dudley and Wolverhampton. Offer lifetime opportunities for residents to access quality information, advice and guidance and relevant employability training and job search support”.

Subjects areas delivered at various venues included; Information, Advice & Guidance, Initial Assessments, Action Planning, Inter-personal Skills, Conflict Resolution, Critical Thinking, Teamwork, CV Writing, Interview Techniques, Money Management, Networking & Planning and Report Writing.

Value Added Support through our project, 35 learners acquired skills but also received added support such as:-

• Information, Advice and Guidance on employment and alternative career route or pathway. 
• Vocational/occupational counselling to overcome labour market challenges that affected learners’ progress from returning to the job market. 
• Worked with learners in small teams of 1-3 persons to share experiences, skills and knowledge of each other in terms of employment sectors and so forth. 
• Referred learners who required mainstream support to local Job Centres. Also encouraged them to interact with faith groups and community centres in their ward.
• Prepared residents for CEAL’s ‘after-care’ services support towards further training and capability building measures. This was delivered particularly to learners with protracted personal, labour market and skill deficit challenges.  

Legacy of Industrial Textiles project was a heritage project that aimed to record, capture, interpret, and disseminate the contributions of mainly South Asian and African and Caribbean backgrounds of textiles manufacturing heritage over the past 60 years from areas in Birmingham, Sandwell, and Wolverhampton. This groundbreaking project involved, inter-generational interviews from different ethnic backgrounds that captured stories of former textile manufacturers and employers’ whose involvement in this industrial heritage sector was just as important. The LITE Project aims included; To make a significant contribution to the public understanding of textiles heritage, To share the findings of oral interviews and Fill obvious gaps in our knowledge of the West Midlands textiles heritage.

The TRIO Partnership (2019) We forge a stronger presence in Wolverhampton. SIAN Computers Community Initiative CIC (SCCICIC) was contracted by the City of Wolverhampton Council to deliver the PATWOLV Project for October to November 2019. It was delivered by SIAN in conjunction with ‘Trio Partnership’ allies -Community Education Academy of Leadership (CEAL) and Global Entrepreneurial Development Services (GEDS). 

The project was considered a significant Pilot initiative, headquartered at 16 Collingwood Road, Bushbury, Wolverhampton, West Midlands WV10 8EB. The Pilot originated from extensive consultations with local firms, statutory bodies and community organisations in Wolverhampton – late 2018 through to January-August 2019. 

The PATWOLV complements Wolverhampton’s Vision for 2030 that refers to “celebrating enterprise, education and skills, boosting health and well-being, having a buoyant and resilient economy, having a vibrant civic society and greater ambition, innovation and inclusion” (City of Wolverhampton Strategic Economic Plan, 2019-2024. P4). 

Clothes are Chemistry project objectives were to increase the participation of BME women in chemistry-related activities. Provide a wider audience, an increased knowledge, of chemistry related-facts. Engage and upskill potential chemistry leaders with knowledge and experience of working with and inspiring diverse non-academic female communities.

Parents Regeneration Involvement Mentoring Enterprise project set in Wolverhampton captured the interest of scores of people.  The project comprised inductions, job preparation skills, CV preparation, presentation skills, interpersonal skills, money management, conflict resolution, customer care, and IT skills. 

Business Enterprise Education project is aimed at offering children and young people aged 8 to 16 plus opportunities to acquire enterprise and job-related skills whilst preparing them for future employment opportunities. Our enterprise projects for young people support children’s functional literacy, numeracy and analytical, skills. Youngsters learn about their environment, gain team-building skills and understand social cohesion. The project has been piloted in different schools in the West Midlands with both headteachers and teachers showing an overwhelming appreciation and agreeing that enterprise education is an essential tool in preventing future NEETs.

Regeneration Enterprise Development Skills project offered residents in Heath Town (Wolverhampton), Smethwick (Sandwell) and Pleck (Walsall) a chance to access quality information, advice and guidance on opportunities.

Relevant employability training and job search support based on the identified needs of beneficiaries.

We achieved the following objectives:

In the first phase of the project from the (project start to the midpoint visit) we  worked in Wolverhampton and Smethwick to do the following:

• Induction- Programme involving faith and community organisations comprising 400 residents combined in Heath Town (Wolverhampton) and Smethwick (Sandwell).  We helped to foster community engagement for beneficiaries through partnerships with faith, community groups, libraries, community centres and professional organisations.

• Offered  IAG support to 29 residents (faith and community groups). This involved informing them about employability and enterprise opportunities in the local areas and the Black Country as a whole.  This also enabled beneficiaries and other local residents to make informed and intelligent decisions for work and career prospects.

• Employability Training: 22 beneficiaries (48% of the total project residents) in Heath Town (Wolverhampton). This involved to date, Interpersonal Communication, Problem solving, IAG, Leadership and Critical Thinking, Communications & Teamwork and CV Writing Preparation (45%) of modules completed. Through these sessions, we were able to support higher achievement standards in vocational learning and employability access.