People and skills
Devonport Futures
Delivered by Real Ideas Organisation
Devonport Futures is an innovative skills programme focussed on the high growth digital, immersive tech and VR sector, aimed at connecting learning to real work opportunities and tangible outcomes for individuals experiencing disadvantage who are economically inactive, unemployed or employed, looking to engage, retrain and develop future facing skills.
The project centres around a programme of training and workshops ranging from Digital Essentials (how to maximise the impact of using digital in your life, job search and beyond) to learning the fundamentals of 360 filming and the more technical projection mapping and spatial sound.
Devonport Futures is delivered in partnership with Plymouth Community Homes.
Plymouth Skills Builder
Delivered by City College
Plymouth Skills Builder addresses key barriers to employment through activities that focus on confidence and resilience, essential digital skills and visible skills pathways into key sectors, responding to regional workforce demands in healthcare, digital, and other essential sectors.
Alongside this the programme also offers rehabilitative health programmes to support sustained employment outcomes for the participants. Working with a range of partners including, Plymouth Argyle Community Trust, Plymouth Active Leisure and Livewell Southwest the project recognises that employability is about building up the individual as a whole person: emotionally, practically and professionally
Skilling up Plymouth
Delivered by Plymouth City Council in partnership with YMCA.
Skilling Up Plymouth will provide people with the tools, confidence, and skills to access the city’s growing employment opportunities. The project specifically supports the adult population (over-25s), including the Armed Forces community of military service leavers, working age veterans, their spouses and families, recent graduates seeking higher value jobs, as well as offering enhanced mentoring support to young people.
The project will also develop a currently vacant City Centre location to be the new base for skills brokerage in Plymouth. This will provide a highly accessible, safe and welcoming space for individuals to be supported on their skills journey.
Communtiy and place
Co-operative Connections
Delivered by Four Greens Community Trust
Co-operative connections will continue to deliver food-support schemes, building on a city-wide approach to addressing issues of food insecurity.
The project will establish a further four food co-ops in areas with high levels of social deprivation, as well as continuing to support the two social supermarkets based at Four Greens Community Trust and Millfields Community Trust.
The project will also continue to develop solutions to household food insecurity by supporting groups that are sharing ways to grow, prepare and preserve food; thereby helping to enhance community collaboration and resilience. This is accompanied by wrap around support services, helping to engage and support people experiencing real financial hardship.
Sharing Communities
Delivered by Nudge Community Builders.
The Sharing Communities project will continue to develop the C103 building, a former nightclub that has been empty for some years. Their ambition is to create a new community asset that provides a space for local organisations working with young people, for the community and an indoor urban farm that will create food, training opportunities and local jobs.
Alongside this, Nudge will host talks and events that bring local people and partners together in the buildings they are reviving, allowing the community to be a part of the process of change.
Love Plymouth
Delivered by Destination Plymouth, Plymouth City Centre Company and Plymouth Waterfront Partnership.
The project supports the development of the city brand and national destination marketing led by Destination Plymouth; with the aim of attracting more visitors, workers and residents into the city. This will be supported by an enhanced events programme in the city centre and waterfront areas which will improve the look and feel of the high street and maximise the use of the city’s newly improved public spaces.
Love Plymouth will also continue to directly support local businesses in the Business Improvement Areas with promotions and marketing.