Capital City Partnership

Who We Fund and Why

image from Next Step project. Credit: Rob Hoon Capital City Partnership (CCP) funds a number of activities under the Closing the Opportunities Gap themes of:

Building strong, safe communities
Getting people back to work
Raising educational attainment
Engaging young people
Community engagement

CCP’s investment complements Edinburgh’s area-based Community Regeneration Fund and is predominantly focused on employment access services.

National priority: Building strong, safe communities

Project Title	Service Description	Client Group Description	Target Outcomes	CCP Budget 07/08
Welfare advice service in primary care	Citizens Advice service in GP surgeries	Patients using GP services unable to access advice services, due to ill health, lack of transport or lack of knowledge about welfare rights or benefit entitlement.	Increasing people's income	£50,000
Take up campaigns & Financial inclusion	Jointly in development with Northwest LHCC/CEC/CAB	People unable to work through sickness or disability	Increasing people's income	£60,000
Edinburgh Cyrenians - Edinburgh Refugee Centre	Support, advice and signposting service	Asylum seekers and refugees	Engaging with refugees and asylum seekers, co-ordinating advice services, organising social integration events	£43,000

National priority: Getting people back to work

Project Title	Service Description	Client Group Description	Target Outcomes	CCP Budget 07/08
IDP				£60,000
Waterfront Rec Centre	Job brokerage	Job seekers and employers	Enagage with 600 clients, 100 employers
CORE	Pilot Prison Leavers Case Management service	Prison leavers	Develop case management model for prison leavers
Trade union input to JU4J - Support@Work	Employment rights support and training for JU4J clients and providers	JU4J providers and job seekers	Co-ordinated TU input to JU4J strategy	£25,000
Restart Job Club	Pre-employment training and supported work placements	People with mental health problems economically inactive 6-24 mths	People into jobs & Emp. Training People into Soc. Firms	£78,750
Job + Education + Training (JET) Programme	Alternative curriculum - 1 year work-based learning programme	S4 students from 8 schools across Edinburgh	People into work, modern apprenticeships, continuing education, SVQ qualifications	£211,000
West Edinburgh Employment Access	Employment advice and guidance intermediary service	Economically inactive in west Edinburgh	People into jobs, FE & HE	£120,000 contract fee. Outcomes payment up to max. £151,000
Craigmillar Employment Access	Employment advice and guidance intermediary service	Economically inactive in Craigmillar	People into jobs, FE & HE	£120,000 contract fee. Outcomes payment up to max. £135,000
North Edinburgh Employment Access	Employment advice and guidance intermediary service	Economically inactive in North Edinburgh	People into jobs, FE & HE	£120,000 contract fee. Outcomes payment up to max. £128,850
Childcare Academy	Pre-employment training and supported work placements	Unemployed people who face a range of barriers in accessing and sustaining training and employment opportunities	People into work, SVQ qualifications, workforce development	£2,925
Spectrum	Employability support service incorporating guidance, training & progression	Vulnerable adults of working age in Edinburgh with complex needs, inc. users of homelessness services; ex-offenders; individuals with mental health and/or substance misuse issues; and vulnerable young people (NEET).	Clients to access Spectrum training, basic/core skills training (CBAL), volunteering, further education, employability training, employment	£29,250
Women onto Work North Edinburgh & Restalrig	Career and personal development training	Unemployed women living in Restalrig or north Edinburgh	People into work, FE, other training, volunteering & citizenship	£11,172
Women onto Work/ Penumbra	Career and personal development training	Unemployed women with mental ill health	People into work, FE, other training, volunteering & citizenship	£4,275
Health & Social Care Academy	Pre-recruitment training within social care environment making use of around 25 social care employers including NHS to secure appropriate work tasters and then permanent employment.	Economically inactive people living in regeneration areas, particular emphasis on excluded tenants of RSLs	People into jobs	£12,600
Re-Union - Big Boat Build	Pre-employment training and supported work placements	Unemployed people who face a range of barriers in accessing and sustaining training and employment opportunities	People into work	£18,169
School Leavers Non-Attenders programme (SNAP) & Kickstart	Flexible programme of personal development activities, further education and employability interventions	School non-attenders in final 6 months of education	People into positive destinations - return to school, jobs, FE, training	£43,382
SCE - Money really matters	Advice on money management for people in transition to work	Economically inactive in west Edinburgh	Sustained jobs	£15,000
Passport	Integrated employability and into work services	Drug and alcohol abusers, ex offenders, homeless people and those at risk of homelessness, and young people leaving care.	People into jobs, employment training & FE	£296,000

National priority: Raising educational attainment

Project Title	Service Description	Client Group Description	Target Outcomes	CCP Budget 07/08
CLICK	Education and training in ICT awareness for parents and children (18-mths - 6 years).	Unemployed parents and their children attending Early Years and Childcare centres in East neighbourhood.	Parents engaged with Children's Centre and school	£65,000

National priority: Engaging young people

Project Title	Service Description	Client Group Description	Target Outcomes	CCP Budget 07/08
Arts & creative industries networks	Partnership and relationship building	Young people and unemployed people	Progression routes for client group	£2,000
Gallery 37	Pre-employment training and tasters	Citywide - young people aged 16-24 'NEET'	People into jobs, employment training & FE	£30,000
Positive activities for young people	Arts-based activities	Young people	Reduction in police calls Sustained first-time tenancies	£10,000
Arts & health programme	Arts-based activities linked to JHIP	Residents of CPP areas	Resource packs to be used citywide	£3,000
Creative consultation programme	Arts-based activities linked to Community Planning outcomes	Residents of CPP areas	Increase in number and range of people actively engaged in Community Planning	£4,000
Activate	Group work activities, student-led enterprise projects and individual mentoring	School pupils (S4) likely to face difficulties in making successful transition from school into employment, training or further education.	People into positive destinations - return to school, jobs, FE, training	£19,500
Vocational Options in Schools	Co-ordination of vocational programmes, support of Edinburgh's NEET Strategy	Young people in the selected schools identified as being suitable for vocational programmes	People into positive destinations - return to school, jobs, FE, training	£20,000
Out of the Blue - Drill Hall Café	Work-based training for young people	Young people in Leith area	Young people into training and work	£24,200

National priority: Community engagement

Project Title	Service Description	Client Group Description	Target Outcomes	CCP Budget 07/08
Piershill Community Flat				£16,150
Edinburgh Community Reps Network (ECRN)		Community activists in regeneration areas.	Community reps participating in partnership processes	£15,300
Edinburgh Partnership - Equalities Fora Development Officer	Support and development of Equalities' organisations participation in partnership processes	Representatives of Equalities fora in Edinburgh	Representatives of equalities organisations participating in partnership processes	£25,700