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BUILDING SKILLS, CONFIDENCE & PARTICIPATION BME Skills Project
The BME Skills Project has been highly welcomed by the ACC board, particularly because of how it has guided the organisation in ensuring best practices across its operations.” 8
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During 2019, in its second project year, the BME Skills project worked with 17 BME community groups in Swansea, Wrexham and Cardiff, recruited 52 volunteers to support these groups, held a successful conference and several training seminars. This is a 3 year partnership project led by EYST and delivered in partnership with SCVS, C3SC and AVOW, and funded via the National Lottery Fund’s Third Sector Skills Programme. Participating groups included: Polish Integration Support Centre, Rhos Inclusion Café in Wrexham, Renew Mind Centre, African Community Centre and Chinese in Wales Association in Swansea and WSSAG Wales, South Riverside Community Development Centre and Butetown Community Association in Cardiff.
BME Youth Invest Project We were very grateful to receive funding from the European Social Fund via WCVA’s Active Inclusion Programme to deliver the BME Youth Invest Project in Cardiff and Swansea. This enabled us to offer paid supported 16-24 week jobs to 12 young people during the year who were hosted by a variety of BME organisations including SubSaharan Advisory Panel, Chinese Community Centre, Citizens Cymru, African Community Centre, Rumba Café, Women Seeking Sanctuary Group and EYST! Individuals gained skills, confidence and experience, and the organisations have gained increased wo/man power helping to deliver their own services to the community! Of the 12 people place, 6 got full-time jobs, 2 went into HE, 1 into SelfEmployment and one got a Welsh Government Apprenticeship!!
