Talent Match

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Talent Match

• 2014-2019

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What is Talent Match?

• 100million Big Lottery Funded Young Peoples
  employment initiative
• Aimed at finding creative ways to support long
  term unemployed 18-24 year olds into meaningful
  employment/self-employment based on individual
  skills, and desires
• 21 Talent Match programmes operating nationally
• Projects range from 1-5 years, and up to
  approximately 8million per programme
• Designed to complement existing local provision
  and fill identified gaps in current services

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Programme Outcomes

• Improved confidence, optimism and support
• Young people secure employment/self employment
• Young people enter suitable training/education
• Improved and co-ordinated local pathways to get
  young people into positive economic activity
• Improved access to better quality local
  employment and training

• Increased partnerships between employers,
  agencies and VCS organisations
• More employers provide meaningful, supported
  employment opportunities for young people
• Enhanced evidence of the nature, circumstances
  and patterns of youth unemployment, including a
  shared data source to track and measure the
  impact of interventions.

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Talent Match in D2N2

• 6.2million Secured
• Support young people from the 27 most adversely
  affected wards in D2N2 (Those with at least
  double the national average rate of long term
  youth unemployment)
• Developed in partnership with young people and
  representatives from voluntary sector, statutory
  organisations and private businesses
• Particular focus on supporting those young people
  remaining unemployed post work programme
• Mentor led support delivered through 4 geographic
  Hub organisations
• Individual package of support to include
  interventions from approved providers
• Personal budget of over 1900 per young person
• Interventions delivered to over 300 young people
  per year

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Why are We Different?

• By young people For young people (Young People
  are the decision makers)
• Flexible, individual support through cycles of
  change
• Project management structure young people form
  a majority of representatives on commissioning,
  project management, and executive boards
• By year 3, 80 of roles created by Talent Match
  to be held by young people
• Specific resource and structure to ensure young
  people from all wards have input into project
  management processes, and can feed back their
  experiences/expectations
• Flexible commissioning process allowing the range
  of suppliers and interventions to change,
  reflective of need, and intelligence

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Where We Are Now

• Commissioning panel formed and Hub
  commissioning under way
• Database, systems, and monitoring tools in later
  stages of development
• Staff team recruited
• Expressions of interest welcomed from potential
  delivery partners seeking to deliver
  interventions to young people
• National Launch of Talent Match 22 January 2014
• Local Launch of Young and Successful mid-March
  2014
• First cohorts of beneficiaries identified, and
  entering the programme April 2014

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Any Questions?

• Contact
• Claire Hale
• People Programme Manager
• Groundwork Greater Nottingham
• Claire.Hale_at_groundworknottingham.org.uk
• 0115 9788212