FUNDING worth £1.1m has been awarded to encourage entrepreneurial skills in the unemployed and disadvantaged.
Liverpool’s Train 2000 will administer the Enterprise Routeway programme which will run until December, 2010, with cash from the Learning and Skills Council (LSC).
It will focus on long-term unemployed people but also minorities such as the homeless, women returners to work, black and ethnic minorities, ex-offenders and people with learning difficulties and disabilities. LSC area director Helen France said: “This is important funding which goes to the heart of our remit of ensuring that everybody has access to the funding they need to enhance their existing skills and to develop new ones.”
Bernie Cox, training co-ordinator for Train 2000, added: “Train 2000 is delighted to have received funding to deliver this programme.
“Now is a good time for people to start thinking about becoming self-employed, especially if they have been made redundant and have received redundancy packages which they can put to good use.
“Through the Be Enterprising programme we can help individuals who want to become self-employed but we can also support people who just want advice and guidance about education and employment or would like to improve their confidence or self-esteem.”
FOR further details, contact Train 2000 on 0800 587 0383.
