Award winning Community Apprenticeship scheme
In 1998, in partnership with Coventry City Council and a number of local community organisations, ADEPT delivered its first pilot Community Apprenticeship programme across the city of Coventry. As a result ADEPT won its British Urban Regeneration Award (BURA) Commendation in 2000.
The Apprenticeship model has a number of core elements, tried, tested and adapted to take account of lessons learnt.
The Apprentices gain real work experience four days per week, and an average of one day per week spent on training and development.
Following this success, a total of five associated Apprenticeships were set up and delivered in a number of locations in England.
Our track record includes:.
West Midlands Community Safety:
This project was set up with the Government Office for the West Midlands, to encourage the involvement and engagement of local communities, around the community safety / crime prevention agenda, in Dudley, Herefordshire, Stafford, North Solihull and Telford.
It gave local people across the region a chance to train in community safety work, and help to make a real difference to the safety of their neighbourhoods.
A full evaluation of the scheme is available
Nottingham:
Set up in partnership with the New Deal for Communities (NDC) in Radford & Hyson Green, to offer a transitional work programme for a total of 24 local individuals most distanced from the labour market.
Local placements for the apprentices were offered by the NDC, local social enterprises and community organisations and the local authority.
The resource of the Apprentices, backed by the expertise and knowledge of ADEPT, built the capacity, sustainability and infrastructure of a range of social enterprises and community organisations.
The project successfully ended in March 2007, and an external evaluation is available.
Sheffield:
This was first set up in 2004, in partnership with a sister organisation Sheffield Centre Against Unemployment, and based in the north part of the city. The scheme sought to develop a locally-based potential workforce from deprived neighbourhoods, for the expanding regeneration sector within the area.
It offered a transitional work programme for a total of 12 local individuals most distanced from the labour market, within the most disadvantaged areas of the city.
Local placements for the apprentices were offered by local Voluntary and Community organisations and social enterprises.
The apprenticeship was repeated in 2005 using different placements, and both cases had a 72% rate of progression to employment