Start date 23.6.2008
Cornwall Works for Social Enterprise (Cornwall Council)
Cornwall Works for Social Enterprise aims to give unemployed people the opportunity to develop their own skills and access sustainable employment by working with social enterprises. This includes investing in existing social enterprises to help them support more jobless individuals, and investing in the development of new social enterprises which can provide sustainable employment for jobless people.
Fifteen Graduation (Simon Burt)
Cornwall Works for Social Enterprise is an ESF Convergence investment, co-financed by Jobcentre Plus as part of its co-financing plan which also includes Cornwall Works Plus and Cornwall Works for Learning Disabilities. This contract is held by Cornwall Council.
Cornwall School for Social Entrepreneurs provides support and training for people who want to use their entrepreneurial skills for social benefit. Details of the national network of Schools for Social Enterprise and the Cornish branch can be found at www.sse.org.uk.
RIO is a social enterprise which works with young people to help them realise their potential. In Cornwall, RIO is running Create Your Future, a programme to support people back into work through the creative industries. The website www.realideas.org/real/work/create-your-future gives more details and you can read RIO’s latest newsletter (Sept 09) at www.realideas.org/sites/default/files/September_newsletter.pdf.
At the heart of the training Fifteen Cornwall offers young people, is the belief that the best way to learn is to get stuck in and learn by doing. The Fifteen apprenticeship combines formal learning at Cornwall College and in Fifteen's kitchen, visits to amazing food and wine producers in Cornwall, London and Italy, work experience in some of the best restaurants as well as working five shifts a week at Fifteen alongside the restaurant's brigade of 20 professional full-time chefs.
To be eligible to apply for an apprenticeship at Fifteen, applicants must be aged 16-24 and not in full time employment, education or training - 'NEET'. And typically they come with other 'issues' too, indeed Fifteen deliberately seeks out young people who have factors in their lives or backgrounds which act as barriers to even getting into training or the jobs market. And they have had it all - violence, drug abuse, alcohol dependency, prison, broken homes... the lot.
Related Links
21.06.10 International Stage for Fifteen Cornwall and Convergence
20.05.10 Fifteen Cornwall Graduation Programme
12.02.10 Eden founder hears social entrepreneurs' success stories
24.09.09 Different side of the world, same passion & purpose for change
23.09.09 Ramping up the waves of success at double graduation
11.08.09 ESF Works website focuses on Fifteen Cornwall
11.06.09 Jamie returns to graduate latest apprentices
25.01.09 Calling all social entrepreneurs…
24.10.08 ESF Convergence partners and stakeholders event
For Further Information
ReZolve
Eden
RIO (Real Ideas Organisation)
RIO Newsletter January 2010
Pentreath Industries Ltd
Citizens Advice Bureau
DMT Business Services
Cornwall School for Social Entrepreneurs
Fifteen Cornwall
