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WEA is launching its next round of funding for the Multiply Community Grants programme 2023/24 through a contract with Liverpool City Region Combined Authority for organisations with residents of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral. They opened for applications on Wednesday 26 April 2023.
Grants of between £10k and £25k will be made to eligible VCSE organisations to support residents with numeracy skills needs for project delivery up to 29 February 2024.
The Multiply programme has been launched as part of the government’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) programme, by the DfE. The programme is for 19+ adults who live and/or work in the application area who do not have a GSCE at Grade 4 (or equivalent). Successful projects will measurably improve adult functional numeracy skills and help to, for example:
- Manage household finances
- Support children with homework
- Understand facts in the media
- Improve employability / job prospects
- Deliver courses designed to increase confidence with numbers as the first step towards a qualification
- Deliver programmes together with employers
- Provide guidance and support that puts maths into every day, relatable context in daily life, home, and work
- Improve labour market outcomes as a result of numeracy support
- Reduce numeracy skills gaps reported by employers.
It is intended that Multiply Community Grants will offer a range of (non-substantial) guidance, referral and support projects such as engagement activity to enable reluctant learners to take the first step, 1-to-1 support and referral into formal education, initial assessment of numeracy needs, capacity building of volunteers to act as numeracy advocates and short taster flexible courses including a numeracy element that fit around people’s lives and are tailored to specific needs, circumstances, sectors and industries.
Multiply activities will be supported by the rollout of a national e-learning platform and should complement both this and existing numeracy skills provision in the local area, such as that funded by the Adult Education Budget.
For further information, please contact Lisa Smalley (LCR Multiply Community Grants Project Organiser) at lsmalley@wea.ac.uk or 07500 813542.