An invitation from Big Lottery to support the developement of the fund:
You may have seen the Prime Minister has announced how the Big Lottery Fund is developing a programme to help young people overcome barriers to employment.  The design of the programme will be informed by learning from the Government’s Race Disparity Audit, as well as from programmes like Talent Match.
Today’s announcement launches an engagement phase which will put young people at the centre of designing a £90 million programme to help tackle barriers to employment. We are working jointly with colleagues from DCMS, DfE and DWP to learn from what young people and organisations tell us and to develop the different options. We expect ministers to issue a policy direction to the Big Lottery Fund about what the programme should focus on and what it should achieve in summer 2018. Big Lottery will then engage in a further period of co-design on the specifics of the programme. Our website includes more information in a statement of intent here
As part of this engagement phase we are conducting some online surveys and we’d appreciate your help to share this online survey as we want to hear from as many young people as possible. We particularly want to hear from young people aged 16-24 who are not in employment, education or training so it would be great if you could ask young people on your programmes to complete this survey and to ask your delivery partners to do the same.
In a couple of weeks we will also launch a stakeholder survey. I’ll get in touch again with further information and the link to that as soon as it’s available or you can register your interest for us to keep in touch on our website.
In the meantime I do hope you can support this process of putting young people at the centre of this work by promoting the survey through your Talent Match Partnership, other networks and social media.
