Current Projects

·The Engage Partnership – a highly innovative forum of over 28 employment support agencies. The members work together to increase the number of unemployed disadvantaged residents accessing sustainable employment through tailored training, mentoring, placement and employment initiatives. To compliment the outputs of each agency, the Engage Partnership has been directly responsible for generating over 250 vacancies.

·The Tourism Forum – a ‘one stop shop’ for employment, training and networking opportunities that is open to all businesses in the tourism sector. Members include the top thirteen hotels in the City and local tourist attractions, such as Brighton Pier. All are signed up to the Tourism Charter, which is a formal commitment to employ local people currently disengaged from the labour market. Engage specialises in translating public sector speak for businesses to access the wide range of government-funded initiatives.

·The Brighton & Hove LEADER Group – Local Employers Acting on Diversity, Equality and Race. This is a new employer-led group set up to promote diversity in the City by developing best practice guidelines around staff recruitment and retention, training and development. The group hosts free events and workshops on all aspects of diversity for all businesses in the City. Any locally based business can sign up to LEADER Charter free of charge, which is a formal commitment to develop a more diverse workforce and employ from under-represented groups. This is a rapidly growing group of over twenty members and it is envisaged that the LEADER brand will be recognised as a diversity charter mark of distinction for all local employers.