Learning to Grow – Please note this project has now closed.

Project description

The operation uses green spaces and environmental activities as an engagement tool into a positive model of progression; aligned with local education, training, employment and time-banking opportunities.

The project has been specifically designed to offer preventative/early intervention initiatives that promote real, hands-on opportunities to improve physical and mental well-being, re-engage with work and build sustainable networks of peer support.

This will be achieved through:

• personal development;
• acquisition of skills and accreditation;
• encouraging participants to take control of and responsibility for achieving their own wellbeing;
• staying independent,
• gaining and sustaining work.

Participants will have access to a practical, active recovery journey will allow two-way movement between an eight-tiered delivery model – developing skills through a staged approach to personal development that recognises the potential for relapse, fatigue, side effects of medication, chaotic lifestyles and fluctuating levels of confidence, self-belief and motivation.

All individual participants will be experiencing long-term unemployment or economic inactivity; exacerbated by work-limiting mental health conditions. As well as a wide range of inter-related barriers to participation in the open labour market.

Geographical coverage

Monmouthshire, Newport, Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

Essential eligibility criteria

Over 25’s with Mental Health issues who are economically inactive or long term unemployed including work limiting health conditions.

Specific targets

Economically inactive (aged 25 and over), not in education or training, who have complex barriers to employment – 200    

• Entering Employment including Self Employment upon Leaving – 40
• Engaged in Job Search upon Leaving – 50
• Gaining a qualification or work relevant certificate upon leaving – 100
• Increasing Employability through completing work experience placement or volunteering opportunity – 108            

Long Term unemployed (aged 25 and over) who have complex barriers to employment – 100 

• Entering Employment Including Self Employment upon Leaving – 25
• Gaining a qualification or work relevant certificate upon leaving – 50
• Increasing Employability through completing work experience placement or volunteering opportunity – 53
• Operations integrating sustainable development into awareness raising, education and training programmes – 1

Contact details

Name: Bill Upham
Email: bill@growingspace.org.uk
Telephone: 07753 139219
Address: Growing Space, Tredegar House, Newport, NP10 8YW
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