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Access £2bn of funding from a provider you can trust Remember that first holiday without your parents? A week in Magaluf. A weekend on the Costas. The nights out with your mates. Walking up and down the endless line of bars figuring out where to go for your first fishbowl or pint of watered-down lager. Of course, you do. You’ll also remember all of the people shouting at you with promises of 2-4-1 deals and free drinks. They tell you their bar is amazing. You get suckered in. Once inside it’s dead, the drinks are overpriced, and you realise you have been conned. Most of us might not have had a summer holiday this year but the same too-good-
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to-be-true deals are on offer as the government looks to give out £2bn of funding to help local companies create sixmonth work placements. Confused? Carry on reading… The £2bn Kickstart scheme is designed to create hundreds of thousands of six-month work placements for young people at risk of long-term unemployment. Funding for employers is available for 100 per cent of the relevant National Minimum Wage for 25 hours a week, plus associated employer National Insurance contributions and employer minimum automatic enrolment contributions.
There is also £1,500 per job placement available for setup costs, support and training. Large companies, wanting to create more than 30 work placements, can apply for funding directly. However, smaller organisations, with fewer positions, need to use an intermediary organisation to make a funding application. The challenge is who do you pick to be your intermediary. Who do you trust? Some are offering all the help you need. As long as they keep the £1,500 funding for themselves… Thankfully there is a service you can trust. Sheffield Chamber and other leading support organisations have
come together to form the ‘The Sheffield Partnership for Jobs and Skills’. We are leading the way, pooling our expertise and supporting Covid-19 business recovery by making it as easy as possible for local companies to apply for Kickstart funding. We will manage the grant for you, but you decide how you spend your £1,500. You can spend it on your internal costs or pick from a whole range of support services that The Sheffield Partnership for Jobs and Skills provide. Alternatively, you can use an intermediary but it should only get paid a maximum of £300 for processing your grant
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