Step Change
Please note: The Step Change training programme has now come to an end. We are still offering Information, Advice, and Guidance services to residents of the Chalkhill area of Brent and will be re-launching Step Change in Brent in Autumn 2024.
For more information please click here
Step Change is a holistic programme offering training in employability, enterprise, and community leadership in the boroughs of Brent, Newham and Barking and Dagenham.
Do you want to
Subtitle- Explore career options?
- Set up a social enterprise business?
- Become a leader, influencer or changemaker?
- Sit on a company or community board?
- Make contacts and build your networks?
The Step Change Programme runs from October 2023 - May 2024 for Residents of Brent, Newham, and Barking and Dagenham
If you are a resident of the Chalkhill area (Wembley Park, Brent, North London) our Step Change programme will still be accessible to you till 2025 via our Job Clubs run every Tuesday from Chalkhill Community Centre, and training sessions will be available again in Autumn of 2024 – more information on sessions will be available soon
If you would like to register your interest for our free Job Clubs and fit the criteria here please sign up using the link below and see here for more info on our Job Clubs
Who is it for?
To be eligible for the programme you have to be:
- From a Black, minoritised or racialised community. This includes people of colour including African, Caribbean, Asian and Latin American individuals, dual, and multiple heritage individuals, migrants, and refugees.
If you identify with the above, Step Change is for you.
What will it cover?
Our programme covers:
1. Introduction and the PESTEL environment
2. Understanding Employers
3. CVs, Supporting Statements and applying for Places
4. LinkedIn and Mock interviews
6. Introduction to business planning and social enterprise
7. Ideas to canvas – planning your business.
8. Operating a social enterprise
9. Finance: Budgeting and cashflow
10. Market research – Viability testing
11. Choosing the right legal structure
12. Confidence and Public speaking
The core programme is followed by one to one employment, training, and social enterprise guidance.
For more information email info@olmec-ec.org.uk
The free Step Change sessions help participants:
- Learn new skills for employment or business and/or Social Enterprise start up in a supportive environment
- Improve work or training prospects
- Develop social enterprise business plans
- Apply for jobs
- Develop community leadership skills
- Meet and be inspired by peers, trainers, and successful community leaders
- Gain confidence in public speaking techniques
- Acquire networking skills through meeting new people, and understanding how to develop contacts
- Have a say on employment, training & education issues
- Understand the formal meeting setting
- Work safely in communities
- Gain the skills to become a board member of a community or company board
Free one-to-one Job Club Sessions
We are offering free One-to-One Information Advice and Guidance sessions at our Step Change Job Clubs every week to eligible residents of the Chalkhill area (HA9)
If you have any Questions contact us for more info at:
Info@olmec-ec.org.uk
or to sign up use the link above
