Sparc Teams Latest News!

Sparc Teams awarded funding from the Future Jobs Fund

Fantastic news here at Sparc Teams – we have made a successful bid for 15 job places at Sparc Teams through the Future Jobs Fund!
See here for details of the fund: http://campaigns.dwp.gov.uk/campaigns/futurejobsfund/

“The Fund aims to create 170,000 additional jobs, primarily aimed at 18-24 year olds who have been out of work for nearly a year to deliver real benefits to communities. The Future Jobs Fund is a part of the Young Person’s Guarantee. From early 2010, everyone in between the ages of 18 and 24 who has been looking for work for a year will get an offer of a job, work experience, or training lasting at least 6 months. We are specifically targeting 50,000 jobs in unemployment hotspots and expect around 10,000 of the 170,000 jobs created to be green jobs”.

Sparc Teams will employ up to 15 previously long term unemployed people for a full six months between April and October this year. Vacancies will be posted next month through JobCentre Plus. The award enables us to both support 15 people back into meaningful employment, and put our business plan into the next gear up – working towards supporting as many people as possible to Turn on their Potential.

Thanks go to Mike Wheeler at Bristol City Council, Sarah Morrison and everyone involved in supporting us in making a successful bid!

SparcSpace is Open and Development is Underway!

SparcSpace has now been Open for a week and we working very hard to get the space ready to decorate for the Revitalize! Boutique (nearly new business wear boutique for smart people) and SparcSpace offices. There’s lots of fun DIY to be done around the space including painting the concrete floor and walls, window washing, shelf fitting, curtains, did we mention painting?, signage and more to make the space as welcoming and accessible as we possibly can for our community.

DIY Open SparcSpace Days are an opportunity for you to join our friendly :0) team and be part of the creation of an exciting new and local community project. Come along and join in the fun while we jointly create the new SparcSpace. Whether you are a dab and with a paint brush, have some tools and time to spare, are bursting with DIY knowledge to share, or simply would like to give some feedback, find out more about Sparc Teams and have a cup of tea – you are always welcome.
We look forward to seeing you at any of the DIY SparcSpace days in the upcoming weeks – check the Events calendar  at http://sparcteams.ning.com/events for details of this week’s DIY times.

Value Exchange – Sparc Teams Points

There are a few handy items we would like to ‘Revitalize and re-use’ to get us going at Sparc. We’ve listed the items in the side column, and if you can help us out in anyway – we’ll give you Sparc Points in return – which you can exchange as payment towards one of our workshops (full calendar at http://www.sparcteams.com and click on ‘Register-Now’), a one to one coaching session with Janice, or at Revitalize! our soon to be opened Nearly New business wear and accessories boutique. Thank you for your support!

Sparc Events and local events listings

Upcoming Sparc Teams Workshops, Events, local jobs fairs and more are listed here:

http://sparcteams.ning.com/events

Please also join our Sparc Teams Ning! Community for social networking, events listings, and discussions with like minded folk!

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