• West Lancs Challenge

West Lancs Challenge

The West Lancs Challenge Project aims to increase apprenticeships, employability, training and volunteering as well as engaging with private businesses to create work experience opportunities.

New supporting partners are getting involved all the time and our ability to support individuals make positive changes in their lives is increasing.

Nearly 300 residents of West Lancashire have taken part in the project and signed up to the Passport.  Many have already achieved their goals or made significant progress towards them.

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Each participant is assigned a mentor who is on hand to guide them through the passport process, signpost them to appropriate services and to provide ongoing support where required.  Mentors are currently working with participants who have a genuine desire to make changes in their life and face barriers such as:-

  • No work experience
  • don’t have the correct qualifications and skills
  • Ill health or disability
  • Homelessness
  • Substance misuse
  • Criminal record
  • Domestic abuse
  • Lack of confidence or low self esteem

Crucial to the aims of the programme has been the West Lancashire Challenge Passport.  The Passports help participants to identify what they want to do and to plan some steps they need to take in order to achieve their goals.  Included in the Passport is a self assessment tool which participants can use to pinpoint areas where they need to focus their efforts, or need some support in order to overcome a barrier, weakness or lack of experience.