Project Working It Out
Funding The Private Equity Foundation invested £625,000 in 2008. In 2011, the scheme gained £3.2m from Inspiring Scotland and a two-year £1.5m grant from the Department for Education. It costs £150,000 to £175,000 a team
Purpose To get young people into employment
Background National employment charity Tomorrow’s People developed Working It Out to plug a gap in provision for disadvantaged young people not in education, employment or training.
“There’s a lot of good one-to-one work and good mainstream provision – we sit in between,” explains Brian Gibson, national manager for young people’s services. The scheme grew out of a programme called New Steps and launched in 2004 with a “taskforce” in Glasgow, a local team consisting of 12 young people and two full-time members of staff.
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