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Project
Summary:
The project aims to help people who are claiming incapacity benefit, and those who are long term unemployed to be able to participate in specially devised activity sessions to help them become more employable. The project is based on the fact that being unemployed is bad for your health, and helping people to become physically fitter, mentally more prepared, and socially more included, is a way of helping people back into the workplace.
The project will enable people who are identified by the Job Centre Plus as being likely to benefit from a ten week course of supervised activity sessions, to have subsidised access to sites that are able to deal with people with medical conditions. There are 3 sites within the super oustput areas in the borough that are currently recognised by the NHS as Exercise Referral Centres, and these have suitably qualified staff and systems already in place. We also aim to provide group activity sessions led by qualified fitness professionals. These would take place in local community centres and enable unemployed people who are less medically restricted to access classes closer to where they live.
Participating
Bodies:
Great Yarmouth & Waveney PCT
NRF Funding
Allocated:
| 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | 20,998 |
| TOTAL | ||||||
| £20,998 |
Contact
Information:
Paul Brice
Trust Headquarters
1 Common Lane North
Beccles
Suffolk
NR34 9BN
paulbrice@nhs.net
Links:
Project Number: EC13 Y7
