Projects

Action West London is delivering an exciting new project to help people develop their IT skills. Launched in January 2016 and supported by The Big Lottery Fund, the One Digital partnership is made up of Age UK, Citizens Online, Clarion Futures (Clarion Housing Group’s charitable foundation) Digital Unite and the Scottish Council of Voluntary Organisations […]

Acton Market is located in the heart of Acton Town Centre, West London, between Ealing and Shepherd’s Bush.

Action Recruitment is an employment project for unemployed, black young men. Action West London is developing a recruitment agency focussing initially on helping black young men aged 16-24 years find employment.

The programme is aimed at 16-24 year olds who are NEETs (not in employment, education or training) with Learners with Learning Difficulties and/or disabilities (LLDD).

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The Work Programme is the Government’s employment programme to help people into sustainable employment. It runs alongside Jobcentre Plus activity to provide employment support and replace much of the current mainstream welfare to work provision in England, Scotland and Wales.

Directions West London is an integrated employment and pastoral support project, providing a range of employment related and personal development support interventions.

Action West London is working closely with local authorities and local partners to identify families who could benefit from the provision. This will involve engaging with families from the local community and provide them support which will help them secure employment.

The aim of this project is to help Hillingdon residents with low level English and IT skills to improve their command of English and IT SKILLS through creating opportunities for them to improve their language/IT skills in and out of the classroom. This will enable them to integrate into society AND TO participate in the wider community, access mainstream services and employment.

A project to help refugees gain employment and build careers based on their existing skills. The project aims to make a substantial difference to participants’ lives, by helping them obtain employment, gain a sense of confidence and feel recognition for their contribution to the work market.

City Bridge Trust Stepping Stones Grant award—to business plan a fee-generating Recruitment Agency Social Enterprise. Action West London is pleased to have been awarded a grant from the Stepping Stones ‘Capacity Building’ programme designed to help start up new social enterprises.

Action West London is fortunate enough to be one of seven London-based not-for-profit organisations to benefit from a share of £1m from NatWest’s latest round of its Skills and Opportunities Fund.

The programme is funded by Social Investment Business and aims to develop an impact management system to increase the ability to drive outcomes and to meet the needs of investors and/or commissioners. The key focus is to collect data and analyse the effectiveness of the many programmes run by Action West London to increase social impact and diversify income.