Intermediate Labour Market Project – District Wide

Project provides training leading to skills and qualifications for unemployed people.  The ultimate aim is to help them to develop the confidence to enter employment.

Castleford Regeneration

The 'Castleford Project' brings together seven projects across the Castleford area and contributes to an overall master plan to transform the area.

Business Development Grants – Most Deprived Wards of the District

This project provides grants to businesses which otherwise may relocate, or, not be able to grow successfully.  The ultimate aim is job creation.  The project also supports a business crime prevention initiative at Langthwaite Grange, and supports the BME business community.

Credit Union Development  

The aim is to develop a culture of saving and to provide people with an option of loans at a reasonable rate of interest in the WF10 and WF11 postal districts.  A further aim is to enable members to use the savings on interest charges to eat/live more healthily.

Able Project (Caldervale Environment and Social Inclusion)

This project is developing blighted land with crops for bio-fuel, a woodland, an educational centre, and rural crafts; in support of a fish farm.  Trainees and volunteers gain horticultural and agricultural skills and experience an holistic approach to working ethics.

Business Broker Scheme

Provide an officer to engage businesses in specific neighbourhood raenewal activities and other Wakefield District Partnership activities - part of a nationally recognised scheme.

Flexible Response Fund

This fund will allow intervention in the labour market to ensure the matching of skills of redundant workers from the declining industries to employment growth sectors as far as possible.

Wakefield East Social Enterprise Project

Working with unemployed people to identify suitable activities that can go on to become social enterprises.  The priority areas for enterprise development are those that will have a positive impact on health.  The overall aim is to help participants secure employment.  The project also supports a bike project for excluded young people aged 8-13.