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 Type: Grant award
Area: Bolton
Project: Capital
Amount: £10,000
Bolton WISE is a charity that helps unemployed people back into work by: providing training towards accredited work focused qualifications and information, advice and guidance in accessing training and educational opportunities.
A grant from LandAid will help Bolton WISE refurbish an old industrial unit and create a new Vocational Skills Centre where local young people can learn trades such as brick laying, joinery, plumbing and plastering. The centre will benefit 150 young people a year who are at risk of exclusion from school or who would benefit from a more vocational orientated educational experience. The centre will provide a realistic working environment where they can learn new skills and increase their confidence. |
 Type: Grant award
Area: Bromley by Bow, Tower Hamlets
Project: Educational programme
Amount: £10,000
The Bromley by Bow Centre helps young people in a very deprived part of London learn new skills, improve their health and wellbeing, find work and transform their lives.
A grant from LandAid will fund ‘Chances East’ a tailored employment workshop for unemployed school leavers aged 16 to 25. Tower Hamlets has London’s highest youth unemployment and below average school attainment. Taking place two and half days a week at the Bromley by Bow Centre the project will help up to 100 disadvantaged young people find a job or paid apprenticeship. |
 Type: Grant award
Area: Hull
Project: Capital project
Amount: £15,000
The Goodwin Development Trust works with communities to tackle the underlying cause of social problems, fill gaps in services and improve the quality of life of people in Hull.
A grant from LandAid will help the trust turn a disused pub on a housing estate into a youth centre for local young people where they can learn accredited courses as well as other activities such as photography and wood carving.
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 Type: Grant award
Area: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Project: Capital project
Amount: £10,000
Herring House Trust provides emergency accommodation for single homeless people through their 26 bed hostel and move on accommodation in Great Yarmouth.
A grant from LandAid will help to refurbish an existing area within their Grade II listed hostel to provide a training zone where homeless young people who are coping with complex problems such mental ill-health, drug and alcohol dependency and physical ill health can access support. |
 Type: Grant award
Area: Sheffield
Project: Capital
Amount: £10,000
Roundabout has been working with young homeless people in Sheffield since 1977. A grant from LandAid will enable the charity to create a life skills training room with IT equipment and kitchen area in their St Barnabas Road Hostel in Sheffield.
Young people stay at St Barnabas for six weeks during which time they are supported into more sustainable longer term accommodation. During this time it is essential that they learn independent living skills such as budgeting, cooking and looking for work and the new life skills room will be central to them achieving this. |
 Type: Grant award
Area: Gateshead
Project:Capital
Amount: £10,000
Training and Development Resource is a charity that engages young people to raise their aspirations by promoting engineering and science-based careers as an attractive option for students in the North East.
A grant from LandAid will help them develop ‘Ingenium’; an engineering and manufacturing training centre where disadvantaged young people living in Tyneside can learn skills that will help them move into the manufacturing industry. The centre will mimic a highly technical workplace that is typical of modern engineering and manufacturing environments with the latest technologies. |
 Type: Grant award
Area: Norwich
Project: Educational programme
Amount: £11,000
St Edmunds Society has over the years provided immediate support and intervention for hundreds of homeless young men. More recently the Society has begun supporting vulnerable young people in developing their life, social and educational skills.
With a project grant from REDEVCO through LandAid they will be able to purchase tools and materials for their City & Guilds accredited Skills Development Project which teaches their young people trade skills such as carpentry that will lead to future training or employment. The project is already showing signs of success with three young people moving on to college, eight returning to school, fourteen progressing to alternative education and one achieving employment. |
 Type: Major grant
Area: Liverpool
Project: New Fairbridge learning and activity centre for disadvantaged young people
The creation of a brand new fit for purpose centre where 150 young people a year will be able to achieve their ambitions by taking part in structured activities that will develop their personal, social and problem solving skills. |
Type: Major grant
Area: Dundee
Project: Renovation of an existing Fairbridge centre for disadvantaged young people
A major renovation of an old jute mill occupied by Fairbridge in Dundee will create a bigger and better centre that will give 150 young people who are not in education, training or employment a second chance. |
 Type: Foundations for Life
Area: Sunderland
Project: Educational facilities forming part of a new cutting edge Centrepoint Hostel
A new LandAid Foundations for Life centre that will form part of a cutting edge Centrepoint residential service for homeless young people in one of the most deprived areas of the UK. Young people living there will have access to a purpose built IT suite, resource centre and dedicated learning worker who will help them achieve their aspirations and break the cycle of deprivation. |
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