PROJECT
Game Changer
PURPOSE
To support young people into employment, education and training
FUNDING
£4.6m from the European Social Fund and the National Lottery Community Fund between 2017 and 2022
BACKGROUND
The Building Better Opportunities programme saw the National Lottery Community Fund and the European Social Fund come together to invest in local projects tackling the root causes of poverty, promoting social inclusion and driving local jobs and growth. Social enterprise Real Ideas seized the opportunity to support young people in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly where there are high rates of poverty, social deprivation and youth unemployment. The organisation brought together a range of partners to discuss what had and had not worked around supporting young people and found that previous models had been too fragmented and had failed to sufficiently involve employers.
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