Track Record

To date, the Engage Team have delivered the following products and services:

• Employer Engagement Training to 57  practitioners and managers across the UK on behalf of Yes Minister. Please see the attachments at the bottom of the page to see what the contents of each day involve.
• Equal Brighton & Hove Engage Partnership
• Brighton & Hove City Council Local Employment Partnership Programme - Engage was commissioned to develop the framework and deliver on Brighton & Hove City Council’s LEP, which is a formal commitment to link with Jobcentre Plus to recruit a more diverse workforce. Engage worked closely with its partners and across all Council departments to develop a supported route for marginalised individuals to access employment. Engage put in place a robust sustainable model that builds on good practice and addresses issues around recruitment. The model further develops a culture of support, training and personal development within the organisation and embeds government initiatives, such as Train to Gain. Engage won the runner up Award  for Partnership Works at the South East Local Employment Partnership Awards; loosing out to the over all winner IKEA!
• Brighton & Hove LEADER Group -  Local Employers Acting on Diversity, Equality and Race. This is a an 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.
• Brighton & Hove Tourism Forum and Charter - funded through EQUAL Brighton & Hove, EES Ltd was contracted to work with the Tourism Industry to establish it's training and staff development needs. Through this work Claire Mitchell created the Tourism Futures Charter and set up the Tourism Forum, both of which were subsequently funded by SEEDA through City College's SOLD Project. EES Ltd has now further developed the network , which is now called the Tourism Alliance, to become self sustaining through the charging of a membership fee.
• Sychronise West Sussex
• Constructing Futures Project - generated over 50 construction apprenticeship placements, over 150 work placements and over 30 NVQ Assessors. It formed a construction forum for key local employers