The Genesis II Project
The Genesis II Project aims to engage with economically inactive individuals within 
our communities and provide practical solutions to overcome specific barriers in order for them to engage or re-engage in education and employment.
our communities and provide practical solutions to overcome specific barriers in order for them to engage or re-engage in education and employment.The team aims to help people revisit lost and forgotten hopes and dreams and also those who’ve yet to establish any. Our aim is to provide a holistic approach on an individual basis by trying to address barriers that people face whilst trying to progress into training or employment and moving forward with their lives. Talking is a great start.
These barriers could be:
- Finding suitable quality registered childcare
- Assisting people with visits to childcare settings when choosing the childcare
- Helping towards the cost of subsidised childcare in certain circumstances
- Taking to people about skills they may already have and building on them in the hope of providing focus and progression
- Finding suitable courses in Cardiff that are realistic to a person being able to actually access due to the location of where they live
- Looking at the available transport in Cardiff and Vale
- Discussing grants that may be available to be claimed and support in actually claiming them
- Signposting and help accessing other services that may be more suitable to an individual’s needs.
This list is not exhaustive and if you are in doubt with what we can help with please ring us and we can have a chat.
Objectives
- To provide a package of easy to access client centred support including personal development and soft skills, thus enabling the project to engage with individuals who may otherwise be excluded from training and economic activity. Specifically the project will target females, lone parents; work limiting health conditions or disability; older participants; black and ethnic minority groups; to overcome a variety of barriers they face in moving closer to the labour market.
- To ensure sufficiency of high quality, local, affordable, accessible suitable childcare to meet the demands of the project and to address work life balance issues. It will do this by investing in, and mentoring, new or existing childcare enterprises and in particular social enterprises in disadvantaged areas.
Priority target groups:
- young people 16-25 years; (not exclusively this age group)
- Lone parents
- members of the BME community and those with English as a second language
- others who may be socially economically disadvantaged;
- women
- NEETS (people not in education, employment or training)
Support for subsidised or free childcare has been identified as the major barrier to
preventing individuals from participating in the labour market and or undertaking training and qualifications which would enable individuals to become more employable.
This will be achieved by providing individuals with advice and guidance; mentoring; subsidies for individual childcare fees, for parents whose needs are not met
via any other funding source, such as the childcare element of working families
Tax credits, Assembly learning grants, & FCF, or other mainstream government support.
The project will ensure sufficient high quality local affordable accessible childcare
to meet the demands of the project, by investing in new flexible childcare places, subsidising fees in new and existing provision.
The grants programme will also support parents in accessing training provision where there is no other source of funding available to achieve soft outcomes.
For more information please contact Alyson Hawkins, Genesis 2 Cymru.Wales Cardiff Manager on 02920 351714 or click HERE to send a message to the team
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