Award winning Community Apprenticeship scheme
ADEPT's model was first delivered in Coventry with six local unwaged residents recruited and placed with a range of voluntary organisations and statutory bodies across the city, whose remit was to support local community development.
The apprentices were both role models and a real and practical support to those agencies involved.
The apprentices received a training wage, practical supervised work experience and a qualification.
The model was so successful that five associated apprenticeships were set up between 2004 and 2007.
West Midlands Community Safety:
This project was developed with the Government for the West Midlands, to encourage the involvement and engagement with local communities around community safety in Dudley, Herefordshire, North Solihull, Stafford and Telford.
A full evaluation of the scheme is available.
Nottingham:
The project was a collaboration with the New Deal for Communities in Radford & Hyson Green.
Its two main aims were to offer transitional work programme for 24 local residents who were most distant from the labour market.
In addition, the apprentices were to provide a resource to build the capacity and confidence of the local community sector.
The successful project ended in March 2007, and an external evaluation is available.
Sheffield:
The model was first set up in 2004, and was then repeated in 2005, in partnership with a sister organisation, the Sheffield Centre Against Unemployment.
Its aim was to develop a potential workforce from within local communities for the then expanding regeneration sector.
In both instances, the progression rate into employment was 72%.