Rights and Equality Sandwell (RES) secured some funds to support local people to become more efficient in dealing with issues they face on a day-to-day basis.  This programme has been carefully designed to empower people currently impacted by the high cost of living by enabling individuals to understand and learn different ways to improve their financial situation.  The purpose is to focus on engaging working individuals who have limited or low literacy and numeracy skills and have been disconnected from mathematics. This often hinders their professional growth and can lead to making choices that impacts their financial situation.  

 

RES has put together workshops for 3 hours a week.  The 3 hours have been split into 2 hours taught sessions which will include group work discussions and numeracy-based tasks.  Participants will be given a portfolio and every week they will be required to complete a task in their own time.  This task has to be relevant to their own situations and participants will be required to embed the learning in the workshop to complete the task.  This portfolio is also a measure of their knowledge as well as having completed a task that will be useful for their personal and work life once they complete the course.

 

RES will be running 5 workshops across three different areas, Birmingham, Sandwell, Dudley.  The workshops will be face to face and some mentoring support delivered online to participants who require additional help.  RES will also run 2 half day ‘Family Fun Numeracy’ events to engage with working parents who have childcare responsibilities.  This will also parents to play numeracy games with their children and an opportunity for RES to promote Multiply programmes.

 

 

RES would like to empower individuals to progress in life and work and we will embed systems in place where referrals to other Multiply partners on any accredited and higher courses will be recorded. 

 

RES has been known to foster greater understanding between different groups and encouraged cohesion within communities. Our previous successful input and projects include:

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• programmes to support dual heritage children in a diverse community

• users’ involvement in shaping services (Health Watch Sandwell)

• pathways for migrant and new communities to health care services

• tensions monitoring/hate crime ambassadors

• anti-terrorism, anti-radicalisation and prevention partnerships

• female genitalia mutilation champions

• peer health champions

• coronavirus pandemic community advisers project

• Black Country SPAKE Project – language adaptation initiative