Contact: Mike Wickenden (01962) 846007 e-mail: [email protected]

1. Summary

1.1 The activities of Prince's Trust in Hampshire support the Corporate priority to maximise well-being. The disadvantaged younger members of the public in Hampshire will benefit directly from the activities of the Trust which offers practical solutions to help young people get their lives working. By offering training, mentoring and financial assistance for example, 14-30 year olds are helped to realise their potential and transform their lives. Those who have struggled at school, been in care, been in trouble with the law, or who are long term unemployed are consequently given an opportunity to open doors which previously may have been closed to them. The revenue grant funding proposed will support the delivery of these solutions by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight office to those who need it. A list of the Prince's Trust Activities in Hampshire is attached in Appendix 1.

2. Recommendation

2.1 That a revenue grant of £23,000 be made to the Prince's Trust for the current financial year (2007/08), and that this be followed by two subsequent payments of £23,600 and £24,200 respectively, over the proceeding two years (2008/09 and 2009/10).

3. Legal implications

3.1 The County Council has the power under the Local Government Act 2000 to do anything that is likely to achieve the promotion or improvement of the economic, social or environmental wellbeing of an area. In particular, S.2(4) of the Act enables the County Council to enter into arrangements or agreements with any person, and give financial assistance, for these purposes. Guidance issued by the Secretary of State confirms that this power can be used to contribute funding to groups and bodies if the authority is satisfied that this contributes to the economic social or environmental well being of its area. This is considered to be the case here, where the activities of the Prince's Trust help the achievement of the aims of the Council's Community Strategy, particularly in relation to encouraging young people to play an active part in society.

4. Financial implications

As above. See point 1.1

5. HR implications

None

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APPENDIX 1

Prince's Trust Activity Hampshire - 2007-08

Team

We have continued to deliver the TEAM programme during 2007, through our stable delivery partners, Hampshire Fire and Rescue and Highbury College.

Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service continues to be a very solid delivery partner with good retention and success rates - 80%+ and were deserved winners of Celebrate Success Partnership Innovation Award 2007. They have delivered some excellent results this year: 30 young people completed Basingstoke courses this year (including gaining level 1 qualification); 28 completed Southampton courses this year (including gaining level 1 qualification). 4 Team members from the Team that completed on 14/12/07 have successfully gained employment from their work experience placements. In 2008, as well as delivering teams in Basingstoke and Southampton, HFRS are delivering 3 hotspot teams in Hardley (New Forest), Fareham and Aldershot, a total of 8 programmes.

Highbury College have delivered 4 programmes this year; one course had unfortunately to be disbanded but the other 3 have delivered 26 starters. 4 programmes are scheduled for 2008.

xl

Currently 6 centres delivering xl in Hampshire: The Connaught School (Aldershot), Oak Farm Community School (Farnborough), Everest Community College (Basingstoke), Woodlands Education Centre (Waterlooville) Staunton Community Sports College (Havant), Testwood Sports College (Totton). Between them, they run 6 year 10 clubs (Testwood run 2), 5 year 11 clubs, 1 club mixed Year 10/11 (Woodlands - PRU). Currently there are 60 year 10 students, 67 Year 11 and 8 mixed Year 10/11.

All schools are registered with ASDAN and are working towards and achieving xl awards. Testwood are also registered for WKS and students work towards and have achieved level 1 and 2 WKS in Working with others, Problem Solving and Improving own learning and performance.

Get into Programmes

The Get into programme is a new way of engaging with young people, and having been successfully piloted, it is now part of our core delivery programme. The courses which are normally one week in length, aim to provide taster sessions and personal development within specific areas of industry. So far we have delivered 2 programmes for Get into Maritime and 1 for Get into Sports & Leisure; a total of 42 young people have successfully completed these courses.

Our programme for 2008 has not been finalised but we anticipate running 7 new programmes; 2 for Maritime, 2 for Sports & Leisure, 1 for Construction and 2 for Business. The latter programme differs slightly to the others in that it is a cross between Get into and TEAM and runs for 4 weeks; the first will be run in Southampton in March and one in Portsmouth later in the year. These Business courses will cater for up to 15 young people at one time. In addition we are seeking to run a non residential drama course in Eastleigh starting in February for up to 12 young people, as part of an Arts Award called Hub4.

Big Boost & Community Cash awards

Big Boost allowed us to support a number of community based projects throughout the area during 2007. The funding for this programme ceased in November 2007 and has been replaced by Community Cash Awards for the remainder of 2007 and into 2008. WE were able to fund 19 Community projects in 2007: 10 in Southampton, 5 in Portsmouth, 1 in Aldershot and 3 in rural areas helping a total of 70 young people to support their local communities.

Business

The Business programme has faced problems this year and has struggled to start the desired number of businesses that we thought possible. This has been down to resource problems elsewhere within the region and has meant that our Hampshire Area Manager, Nick Giles, has had to provide cover elsewhere within the region. Now that we have successfully recruited a full time manager for the MKOB area, Nick will be able to concentrate his efforts to Hampshire. That said, from the Hampshire County Council funding in 1997 of £40,000 and subsequent additions, a total of £50,000, we have now managed to support businesses to the tune of £183,000. Four more businesses were started under HCC funding during the year from the endowment effect of this donation making a total of 81 since inception. We are hoping to support in excess of 25 new businesses in the coming financial year 2008/09.

Volunteers

Of course none of our work would be totally effective without the support of our volunteer network. We have started to provide mentoring support for those young people coming off the TEAM and Get into programmes, which we have previously not provided. This has involved the recruitment and training of a large number of new supporters to the Trust, and in some instances retraining of existing business mentors who have been under-utilised. We are now in a very strong position to provide better support than ever to the young people entering our variety of programmes. A number of training dates for new volunteers have been established for 2008 as an ongoing process of support for both them and out young people.