Gul Skills Development Project
The Cornish word for ‘create,’ Gul is a 6 month, 3 days a week programme which enables those aged 18+ who are impacted by long term and inter-generational unemployment to progress towards further education, employment and training.
The programme’s holistic approach includes a wide range of activities including access to Maths, English and Digital Skills qualifications, Level 3 Paediatric First Aid, healthy relationships workshops, financial management, physical wellbeing and outdoor education activities, cooking workshops, support with housing, parenting, child development, healthy eating and counselling.
On completion of Gul, participants are supported into training, further education and employment with a C.V. full of tangible achievements and awards in locally relevant activities that they are interested in and motivated towards. In the first 2.5 years of Gul 77% of people on the project have moved into further education, employment or training, breaking the cycle of inter-generational long-term unemployment.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you’d like to take part in the Gul Skills Development project.
Gul Café Training Project
The Gul Café Training Project, is a free, innovative course designed to build confidence and practical skills for individuals looking to work or train within hospitality. The project trains 30 people a year in our training kitchen and café, run by our highly skilled and experienced Community Café & Training Hub Manager and her team. Participants study relevant hospitality qualifications in food safety and hygiene, customer service, barista training, food preparation, and much more, as well as gain practical experience volunteering in the café. Like the Gul Skills Development Project, this is delivered through a holistic approach which includes a wide range of activities including financial management, housing, parenting, physical wellbeing support, healthy eating, and counselling. On completion participants are fully equipped to enter the hospitality sector and are then supported into training, further education and employment with a C.V. full of relevant achievements and awards.
This project is part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Cornwall Council is responsible for managing projects funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund through the Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Good Growth Programme.
To find out more please see here.
About the UK Shared Prosperity Fund
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit here.
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund proactively supports delivery of the UK-government’s five national missions: pushing power out to communities everywhere, with a specific focus to help kickstart economic growth and promoting opportunities in all parts of the UK. For more information, visit here.
Embedded into all Trelya’s core services are:
- Crisis support
- Wraparound whole family support
- Partnership working
Trelya provides immediate solutions to crises (including safeguarding, evictions, conflict and food poverty).
Intensive family work which connects each family member to relevant resources, and supports them in overcoming individual obstacles in their own lives, whenever the need arises.
Trelya works closely with partners from across the locality and has developed its three storey community centre in the heart of Penzance East into a hub from which 20+ statutory and voluntary sector organisations deliver support services. After 1 year of engagement with Trelya 80% of children, young people and families who previously experienced barriers to support services are engaged in at least two new services
In addition to the core services delivered through Gul, we also deliver a series of specialist projects each year, that develop specific skills and provide positive developmental experiences.
Examples include:
Fit For Us – funded by Sport England, FFU increased physical and emotional well being of young women through physical activity.
PGSG – funded through a grant from Cornwall Rural Community Charity, PGSG is a peer support group that takes a holistic approach to emotional and mental health support and education. This includes off site trips and activities.
West Cornwall Heart Beats – funded by The Duchy Health Charity, West Cornwall Heart Beats delivered a 6 month intensive, weekly programme of engaging activities that enabled families to build heart health knowledge, motivate healthy heart life styles and create a multi-generational healthy heart culture.