Project
Improving Futures
Funding
£900,000 from May 2012 over three years from the Big Lottery Fund's Improving Futures programme, which has provided £180,000 of sustainability funding to help the project become schools-funded from May 2017
Background
Tyne Gateway's "barefoot professional" model was developed between 2009 and 2011 as a collaboration between North and South Tyneside councils, with funding from the government's child poverty unit. This saw local people trained as "community entrepreneurs" in disadvantaged areas, based on the principle that those who have experienced poverty themselves are the biggest experts on what people need to move out of it. Tyne Gateway Trust was formed as a charity in 2011. And by May 2012, it had created the new role of "family entrepreneur".
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