Eden, Cumbria, The Lake District – A natural choice for business

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Skills and Employment Prospectus

The Cost of Living Crisis, COVID-19 and BREXIT continue to present challenges across Eden’s economy, with a particular impact on the mismatch between labour supply and skills and the staffing needs of businesses to drive economic recovery.

Inspiring Eden has been setup to help communities and local businesses grasp the many challenges and opportunities they face and as a result drive economic recovery and growth. Inspiring Eden offers a range of Skills and Learning opportunities, which ensure current and emerging needs are met and the full potential of the local labour market is harnessed. This Prospectus details the offers as the basis for promoting partnership working, targeted intervention as well as developing Eden’s workforce and economic base as the basis for driving economic recovery, prosperity and levelling up.
 

Current Offer: Skills

  • Inspiring Eden Skills Employment Group – Monthly stakeholder meeting
  • Inspiring Eden 16-19 Travel Support Schemes
  • Eden Tourism Network Sector Training
  • Inspiring Eden Farmers Support and Advisory Service
  • Business Network Membership Support Scheme
  • Newton Rigg Training Programme - Appleby Heritage Centre
  • Signposting to training opportunities via Invest in Eden and Visit Eden and Skills events
  • Project Management Support training
  • Shakespeare Globe Arts and Culture Training via Schools and Businesses
  • Multiply – numeracy project. Led by Cumbria County Council and delivered by local partners.
  • Adult Learning in Eden - English; maths; ESOL; Digital and Employability skills up to L2 providing access to employment, prospects for better jobs and improving self-esteem
  • Cumbria Youth Alliance – helping young people overcome barriers to employment
  • CLEP Skills Boot Camps
     

Current Offer: Employment

Inspiring Eden Youth Hub – supporting young people aged 16 -24 who are in receipt of benefits and help them to move into work and training.Apprentices

Dragons Apprentice Challenge – supporting teams of young people who are out of work, enabling them to gain essential employability skills.

Eden Apprenticeship Grants – offering grants to Eden businesses of all sectors across the district.

Jobs Fair – working with DWP, bringing together schools, employers and training providers to showcase the range of jobs, training and apprenticeships on offer across Eden.

Marketing, Publicity and PR - Promotion of partner events and initiatives through networking, joint marketing and utilising the existing communications routes of partner organisations.

National Careers Service – delivered by Inspira across Cumbria. Available to all adults looking to find out about moving into work, career changes, training opportunities and skills health checks.

Adult Learning in Eden - free employability workshops and courses to 19+ cohort. Short stepping stone qualifications that improve life chances and confidence leading to discrete skills courses.

DWP Employee Health and Disability Support – free advice to support employers and help keep people in work.
 

Opportunities

  • Government investment to produce additional opportunities for Skills and Learning
  • Bells of LazonbyIncreased joint working with partner organisations
  • Changing working practices, changing travel to work geography and size and range of current and emerging workforce
  • Local Government Review providing a platform for driving policy and projects across a wider area
  • Flexibility to create skills and community learning programmes, specific to the needs of the Eden Area
  • Ability to promote confidence and self-esteem through short stepping stone courses at learners’ own pace – leading to further learning and improved life chances
     

Challenges to embrace

  • Increase access to labour force and skills base to support business growth
  • Develop local transport networks to strengthen links between towns and villages, addressing geographic challenges
  • Encourage the roll out of high-quality IT connectivity within rural areas
  • Potential new key employment and training sites, to support the Rural Economy
  • Provision of retraining following redundancy or having to take second jobs as a result of cost of living crisis
     

Partnership and Joint Working

Inspiring Eden aim to maximise opportunities through joint working to galvanise Skills and Learning across Eden behind a collaborative approach. This will secure extra resources to provide support to those looking to gain new skills or employment. This includes working with a range of partner organisations and networks.

Inspiring Eden Skills and Employment Prospectus

  • Adult Learning in Eden (Cumbria County Council)
  • Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership
  • Federation of Small Businesses
  • Cumbria Chamber of Commerce
  • The Farmer Network
  • Department of Work and Pensions
  • Newton Rigg Limited
  • Inspira
  • Cumbria Council for Voluntary Service
  • Cumbria Youth Alliance
  • Centre for Leadership Performance
  • MENCAP
  • Carlisle College
  • Lancaster University
  • University of Cumbria
  • Town and Parish Councils
  • Westmorland and Furness, South Lakeland District Council and Barrow Borough Councils
  • Cumbria Social Enterprise Partnership
  • Eden Tourism Network

To help drive decarbonisation and achieve the zero carbon target sustainable and green practices will be incorporated into all work areas.

More information

Our Economic Development Team will be able to signpost you to help for your business. Why not get in touch today: Email: [email protected]

Copies of the Skills and Employment Prospectus are available in pdf format, please contact us for more details.