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Supporting individuals
Community Cars
Linked to the Community Wheels
service, Community Cars is able, through volunteer car drivers,
to help people without their own transport to access hospital appointments
or visit friends, families, the GP or the shops. For further details
click here
Cultural Learning Project
This delivers a wide range
of training courses to enable those seen as hard to reach learners
to engage in learning opportunities. Through a team of tutors primarily
drawn from the local ethnic minority community, our current courses
include Indian Cookery & Culture, Welcome to English, Belly
Dancing, Body Conditioning. For more information e
mail.
Dacorum Learning Revolution - Dacorum
Horizons
This project is located at
160 Marlowes Hemel Hempstead and delivers and promotes adult learning
opportunities in Hemel Hempstead. For further information
click here
Herts Interpreting and Translation
Service (HITS)
We are a registered exam centre
for the Chartered Institute of Linguists and train individuals fluent
in two or more languages through to sitting the Diploma in Public
Service Interpreting (DPSI). We hold a number of Service Level Agreements
with statutory agencies to provide interpreting and translation
services and current volume is 5,000 assignments per annum. For
more information click
here or to
access the HITS
website for
training information click
here. For further information on two courses being run in September/October:
one on Health and one on Local Government click
here
Intermediate
Labour Market
Community Action
Dacorum has been delivering this Intermediate Labour Market Project
for over a year now. The scheme aims to support five local residents
each year who have been long-term unemployed and are facing barriers
to finding work because of poor health, disability or other issues.
Those recruited are employed by the Shaw Trust for up to 50 weeks
and benefit from up to thirty hours a week in a work placement alongside
a personal package of training and self-development designed to
improve their skills, confidence and ability to secure employment
on the open market.
The five participants who have
completed the scheme so far benefitted from a range of accredited
training courses including First Aid, Health & Safety and Food
Hygiene which they were able to add to their CV’s as well
as motivational courses and a team-building day on a canal boat.
With ILM support, three participants passed Level 2 Book-keeping
courses and another achieved a teacher training qualification.
Two participants went on to secure
permanent jobs with their placement providers (one as a project
worker with MIND and the other as an administrative assistant with
Rent Aid) One other has been short-listed for several job interviews
(prior to joining the scheme she had not had an interview for several
years) and her chances of securing employment have been greatly
improved as a result of her time on the scheme.
We currently have two new participants on the scheme and need to
recruit seven more by the end of July 2010 to ensure that all of
them complete the programme by the end of the project’s lifespan
(3 years). The big challenge is to achieve positive job outcomes
for as many participants as possible as this is how the success
of the project will ultimately be measured.
Paradise Furniture and Training
Service
From premises in
Wood Lane, Hemel Hempstead we deliver two linked functions.
The first is the receipt of unwanted items of furniture and selling
these at low cost to households on benefits and the general public.
The second service is the delivery
of training, such as fork lift driver training, basic construction
skills, arts and crafts and beauty treatment to a wide variety of
client groups. For details of training courses
click here or
to access the Paradise Training website click
here
Shopmobility
We manage the Shopmobility Service in Hemel
Hempstead from premises at the Marlowes Shopping Centre. The service
enables people with mobility difficulties to access the town centre
shops. For further information click
here
Meeting the Information
Needs of Economic Migrants
We worked with partners in
Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal and Spain to share understanding, research
the current position on migration and developed tools to support
migrant workers to make informed choices.
This project concluded on 31st March 2008.
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