CLOSED: Access to Employment: IP1.1 and IP1.2 project call - Liverpool City Region (OC22S19P1257)

Call to run a project covering two areas of activity (1) to support unemployed and inactive residents into work and (2) to narrow employment and unemployment rate gaps within particular groups : females, black and ethnic minorities and people with disabilities.

From:
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021), Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Rural Payments Agency
Published
29 January 2019
Last updated
13 March 2019 — See all updates
Fund state:
Closed
Type:
Access to employment
Location:
North West
Funding source:
European Social Fund
Closing date:
12 March 2019

This call is now closed. Please do not submit an application for this call. The information provided on this page is for reference purposes only.

Details

This Call seeks proposals for projects to the value of approximately £8.5m, designed to provide support to and increase the employability of specific groups (including bespoke support for, both, males and females). Project proposals should reflect how they will support a specific target group; these are expected to include:

  • people with learning difficulties and disabilities;
  • people without English, Maths, IT qualifications at Level 2;
  • people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds;
  • people returning to the labour market following parental or caring responsibilities; and
  • people with experience of the care system.

Applications are encouraged from consortia or other similar types of partnership arrangements. In each such case the application must be submitted by a lead organisation on behalf of the partnership/consortia and the lead applicant must have the financial capacity to meet the required Due Diligence criteria.

The preference is to make one funding award for each of the two areas of activity.

For more information, download the call specification.

Location

The project must cover the Liverpool City Region LEP Area.

Value

Approximately £8.5m of funding is available.

Deadlines

Full application deadline: 12th March 2019

Completion date

The project must be completed no later than 3 years and 6 months after the proposed start date.

How to apply

To apply for funding under this call you will need to complete and send the Full Application form to the email address provided in the call document. The guidance provides information to help you complete the form.

You are also advised to read the details in the call documents in order to produce an application that complies with the requirements and meets the needs set out in the Operational Programme. All this information, the related guidance and the European Social Fund Operational Programme can be found from our homepage.

Where to send completed applications

Completed Full Applications must be submitted to 2014-2020.esfapplications@dwp.gsi.gov.uk

Failure to send completed applications to this email address by the deadline in the call specification will be ineligible for consideration.

Contact details

Contact esf.2014-2020@dwp.gsi.gov.uk with queries linked to accessing or using the specification, forms, guidance etc.

No applications are to be sent to this email address. Completed applications must be sent to the email address provided in the ‘Where to send completed applications’ section above / Section 9 of the Call Specification.

Updates to this page

Published 29 January 2019
Last updated 13 March 2019 + show all updates

  1. Access to Employment: IP1.1 and IP1.2 project call - Liverpool City Region (OC22S19P1257) is now closed.

  2. First published.

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