CYP Now - Participation in Action: Youth zone scheme connects young people to job training

Youth zone operator OnSide secured funding to put 170 of its young members through a six-week employment course and help link them up with apprenticeship opportunities at local employers.

Provider: OnSide

Name: Get a Job

Eighteen-year-old Joe Chadwick is one of 170 young people to have been helped into employment, education or training by the Get a Job programme.

The initiative, launched by youth zones operator OnSide in January last year, introduced him to Steve Reynolds, managing director of Oldham-based roofing specialist Primeseal. "We had various applications for apprenticeships throughout the last couple of years and been unsuccessful in trying to find somebody, so we decided to look more towards our local community and get in touch with Madhlo Youth Zone," Reynolds explains.

Luckily for him, the youth club was one of three youth zones, including those in Manchester and Wigan, testing OnSide's employability programme and he was introduced to Joe, who is now undertaking an apprenticeship at Reynolds' firm.

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