Access Funding
Access provides vocational training grants to help you update your skills and improve your employment opportunities.
Do you live in the South Wales Valleys? Are you an unemployed adult who just needs that little extra support to help you get a job and keep it? Then the Access Programme could be just for you.
Participants could receive:
A vocational training grant of up to £1,500 to help you update or learn new skills to assist you to return to work. Extra support ( up to £200) maybe available to remove barriers such as childcare and transport costs
Who is eligible to take part?
Please contact Careers Wales advisers who will assess your needs and confirm whether you are suitable for support from the Access programme.
To be eligible, you must:
Live in the south Wales valleys area, within the council authorities of:
- Blaenau Gwent
- Bridgend
- Caerphilly
- Carmarthenshire
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Neath Port Talbot
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Swansea
- Torfaen
You are aged 18 or over be unemployed and registered with Jobcentre Plus
How do I find out more?
For more information on Access Funding contact your local Careers Wales office or from Learning and Careers Advice on 0800 028 4844.
Use the link below to
Read the guidance notes
http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/static.live.careerswales.net/ACCESS%20Guidance%20Notes%20EN.pdf
