A presentation on innovation in delivery models from the Welsh persepective

1. Delivery Models
Engagement Gateway and ILM
Joanne Welford, Third Sector European Team
Manager
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2. EU funding to the third sector
• 319 third sector organisations accessed £251m of European
funding during 2000-2006
• Over £105m of EU funds have been committed to 38
projects led by the third sector under the 2007-2013
programmes
• In addition, third sector organisations have won over £77m
worth of contracts under the 2007-2013 programmes

3. Engagement Gateway and ILM
• Set up to enable small organisations to contribute to the
programmes
• A flexible approach to achieving outcomes and an
opportunity for innovation
• To contract with organisations that engage with
economically inactive people and prepare them for
sustainable employment
• To make a significant contribution to raising levels of
employment and reducing economic inactivity in
Wales

4. Progress: Gateway
• 512 contracts/grants awarded to over 300
organisations
• 2,300 people will entered employment
• 19,000 people will achieved positive
outcomes
• 11,000 people will achieved qualifications

5. Progress: ILM
• 67 contracts/grants awarded to over 35
organisations
• 1,142 people have entered employment
• 1,853 people have achieved qualifications
(5,161 qualifications in total)

6. Project Examples
ILM
• Taste Academy
• Rhyl Football in the Community
• CAIS
Gateway
• Tir Coed
• Mid and West Wales
• Prince’s Trust Cymru – Get into…

7. Participants
• Hannah Torrington
• David Morris
• Plus 22,000 others!

8. Structural Funds in Wales 2014-2020
• West Wales and the Valleys – less developed region
• East Wales - more developed region
• EU 2020 and Welsh Programme for Government are key
policy drivers
• WCVA leading input from the sector into the development
of the new programmes
• Start formulating project ideas in 2012