Rainbow Workshop - we are requesting funding to take the positive effects of our Workshop for offenders to young people disengaging from education and help them to learn new skills and positive behaviours through focused, mentored activity (360G-EssexCF-A471926)
Funding Organization
£5,308
Recipient Organization
To extend a recycling workshop project in Harlow to young people at risk of exclusion from school to increase their skills and life chances
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Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 5360 |
| Amount Awarded | 5308 |
| Award Date | 2018-02-14T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | E01021843 |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type | LSOA |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Harlow 004E |
| Grant Programme: Code | 2017/18 |
| Grant Programme: Title | Harlow Education Trust |
| Impact Category | Improve life skills, education, employability and enterprise |
| Last Modified | 2021-04-29T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Duration (months) | 12 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2019-04-15T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2018-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Primary age group | Young People (13 – 18) |
| Primary beneficiary | Children and Young People |
| Primary ethnicity | All Ethnicities |
| Primary issue | Education, learning and training |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | 1077228 |
| Recipient Org: Company Number | 03826440 |
| Recipient Org: Description | Rainbow Services (Harlow) is a local charity which acts as the infrastructure support services provider for the VCSE across Harlow with extensive networks across communities, businesses and voluntary sector organisations and delivers several community projects with vulnerable and disadvantaged communities in the town, including older residents, those living in the Permitted Housing developments, young people at risk of crime and gangs, offenders, and vulnerable communities: - Rainbow Services provides infrastructure support to local voluntary and community groups, holding regular meetings, workshops and publishing a weekly e-bulletin sharing information on subjects relevant to the sector. As part of this role we also encourage the forming of partnerships and collaborative working across Harlow and the wider voluntary sector. We currently co-ordinate 3 partnerships of statutory, private, and VCSE organisations working together to identify solutions to some of the most pressing problems facing communities within Harlow (Permitted Housing Developments; youth and anti-social behaviour; worklessness). We also work closely with Harlow Volunteer Centre and catalyse volunteering across Harlow. This includes through providing direct support to the Tempo Time Credits scheme, promoting it across communities and enabling our affiliates to sign up, providing training sessions and one off volunteering opportunities to earn Time Credits. - Rainbow Services provides direct services to the local community via our Community Builder project, which is currently supporting local older residents to identify and utilise personal and community assets to reduce social isolation and loneliness. We now support this programme across West Essex. We have also introduced a digital element to this and we are providing Digital Buddies to older residents to help them use technological solutions to maintain their independence and social networks. - Our Business Engagement project is working to facilitate a more structured approach to Corporate Social Responsibility and to create a better pipeline for business involvement and volunteering opportunities with the wider Voluntary Sector and local community. - Our Recycling Workshop currently offers 2 projects: the first is a contracted arrangement (with Sodexo) to provide a workplace environment for offenders who have received a community service order through the courts in an environment that is, whilst punitive, also rehabilitative and constructive. This project is the only community and voluntary sector run programme which Sodexo offers in Essex and is creating real opportunities for offenders to give back to their community by building and refurbishing items for local groups and organisations, whilst developing transferable skills which could lead to more positive activities on completion of their order. Service users from this project are involved in a new community venture with St Clare Hospice, upcycling donated furniture for resale in their stores across the region. The second project currently running from the workshop is for young people aged 14 - 18 who are disengaging from school and society and are at risk of crime, violence, gangs, drugs and anti-social behaviour. We offer supported positive activity sessions each week for up to 40 young people each year and accept referrals of from local schools, youth services, the local Community Safety Team and the Youth Offending team. The sessions provide positive, skills based activities supported by adults who have been screened and trained to help the young people learn new skills and positive behaviours through focused, mentored activity for 6 - 8 weeks. We act as a Hub for Youthbuild Essex in delivering 2 Gateway qualifications which young people can work towards. The young people make items for both themselves/their family (enabling them to develop self-esteem and showcase their achievements) and for local community projects for example bird and bat boxes for the local nature reserve (which they then put up and which they can take friend and family to see, developing self-worth and sense of community belonging). Rainbow has a well established reputation for delivering local projects individually and in partnership with others. Rainbow Services is the partner of choice for Harlow District Council and West Essex CCG in matters of community development and consultation, and we are currently supporting Essex Count Council to trial new methods of consultation with a pilot in Harlow. We have been asked by Harlow Council to co-ordinate a consultation into diverse communities. |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | http://www.rainbowservices.org.uk |