Pathways to Employment

The strategic objectives of the Social Investment Fund are:

• Pathways to Employment;
• Addressing Deprivation;
• Increasing Community Services; and
• Addressing Dereliction

Progress to date

SIF provided funding to 19 revenue projects providing opportunities to increase employment potential through gaining valuable experience and training; opportunities to avail of early intervention services to support children and families to maximise their future potential and dedicated educational support to increase future potential. All 19 revenue projects with investment of £40.5 million have completed delivery.

Local people in disadvantaged communities are now directly benefiting from the opportunities being provided from the Fund. To date over 58,000 people have benefitted from these revenue projects: over 6,000 through employment/training projects; over 29,000 through early intervention projects and over 22,000 through projects focused on education.

The majority of projects contribute to more than one of the above objectives.

There are 9 completed projects whose main focus was to address the Pathways to Employment objective. Click on the links below to view specific information relating to the completed projects:

Project Name	Zone	Category
Integrated Employment Programme	Belfast West	Revenue
Employment Project	Belfast South	Revenue
North Belfast Employment ILM	Belfast North	Revenue
Employment East	Belfast East	Revenue
Let’s Work Employment	Northern	Revenue
Enhancing Access to Employment (Dial a Bus)	Northern	Revenue
Work Ready West	Western	Revenue
Work IT	Southern	Revenue
Community Work Programme	Derry/Londonderry	Revenue

The Social Investment Fund produced a number of short films on the outcomes achieved by the SIF projects. To view the films that focus on the pathways to employment objective please access the link below:

SIF Employment Projects:

For more information on all SIF projects please access the link below:

• Social Investment Fund projects