Celebrating past achievements and looking forward to new
Dr Sarindar Singh Sahota OBE takes this opportunity when celebrating the achievements of the SRB6 programme to look forward to the continuing contribution NWCJ can make to the local community.
It has been an eventful seven years and everyone associated with the SRB6 programme can justly be proud of what they have achieved. The programme has come to its conclusion, leaving behind a legacy of significant, enduring improvement throughout the area. There is another legacy, and that is a flowering of organisations such as North West City Jobs (NWCJ), conceived in the latter part of the SRB6 programme, that have a valuable continuing role to play.
SRB6 has employed a very successful strategy of funding projects and initiatives that can show real potential for sustainability, protecting the tax and rate payer and, more importantly, adding long term value for the clients the project is serving. North West City Jobs is a perfect example.
History
NWCJ exists to help local people into local jobs - people in areas like Handsworth, Lozells and Aston. The project was modelled on the award-winning Bullring 'employment hub' and, initially, was designed to deliver suitable job-ready residents into new jobs created by companies relocating to the old IMI headquarters. Over time, the numbers of vacancies will be significant and North West City Jobs has already identified incoming opportunities for companies that will require from 30 to 300 new employees each.
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