The Pathways to Employment Programme is aimed at people who are accessing outdoor activities for the first time or looking to develop their personal and/or professional skills, leading to a more active lifestyle, volunteering and employment.
The Outdoor Partnership established the Pathways to Employment programme in 2010 in North West Wales (Anglesey, Conwy and Gwynedd) funded by the European Social Fund (Engagement Gateway, Intermediate Labour Market and Active Inclusion) to support unemployed people back to work using outdoor activities.
The programme uses outdoor activities to engage and support unemployed people to improve physical fitness, employability skills, confidence, social interaction, mental health and wellbeing and provide exit routes into further participation, learning, training, volunteering and employment opportunities. Since 2010, the programme has helped over 700 unemployed people back into sustained employment in North West Wales.
The programme scored the highest percentage in Wales in terms of getting young people into sustained employment as part of the ILM project providing paid work experience, mentor support and qualifications within the outdoor activities industry– 96% of participants found full time employment (24 out of 25 participants) over the 18 month project.
Our employability projects have often exceeded targets, to date we have returned over 700 people to sustained employment or further and higher education with a social return on invest of £4.42 in north west Wales (Social Value Cymru, 2020).
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