Cath Forshaw
Service Manager
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Connecting young NEET people with local employers, offering mentoring, employability support, funding, and barrier-removal services for sustainable employment opportunities.
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Through the Liverpool Trailblazer programme, we work in partnership with Liverpool City Council to help young people access meaningful employment and overcome barriers to work. Our approach combines tailored one-to-one mentoring, practical employability support, and funding for essentials like transport, training, and work clothing. We connect participants with local employers for exclusive job opportunities and work experience, while also offering advice on benefits, wellbeing, and access to digital tools. Together, we aim to empower young people to build sustainable careers and thrive in the local job market.
Referrals can be made via self referrals, or through a partnership referral. Please complete the form at the bottom of the page for more information and to make a referral.
Liverpool City Council has partnered with Catch22 through the Trailblazer initiative to help young people access meaningful employment opportunities and overcome barriers to work. This partnership connects participants with local employers and provides tailored support to build sustainable careers.
As part of this initiative, Catch22 offers:
As a Liverpool Trailblazer, you’ll also benefit from:
Together, we aim to empower young people in Liverpool to thrive in the local job market and achieve long-term success.
The Liverpool Trailblazer programme currently operates in the Liverpool region.
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Cath Forshaw
Service Manager
Liverpool Trailblazers accepts referrals for young people aged 18-21. You can self refer or refer on behalf of someone.
For further information, please reach out using our contact form, and a member of the team will get back to you as soon as possible.
Catch22 Charity Ltd. manages the data you provide in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Catch22 may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:
Specific detail of each processing activity is provided below.
Cookies are text files that are stored on your web browser by a website’s server. Each cookie is unique to your browser, and will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the website domain name. This information is sent back to the server each time your browser requests a page from it. This enables the website server to identify and track your web browser via your unique, anonymous, identifier.
Catch22 only uses cookies on its website where they will support the functioning of its website and to improve the experience of its website visitors. These cookies may be created by Catch22’s website, or by third-party services that Catch22 uses, to enable its website to be run effectively.
Some, ‘necessary’ cookies are essential to the running of our website and are exempt from the requirement of consent as per the GDPR and PECR. Functional, analytical and advertising cookies are all optional, and we will only store these cookies on your browser where we have received your freely-given, specific, informed, and unambiguous consent.
Any information that is collected by Catch22 via cookies is processed in a way which does not, and cannot, identify an individual person. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting the Catch22 website.
You can find out more about Catch22’s use of cookies, and how to opt-out of or delete cookies from your browser via our Cookies Statement.
If you apply for a job with Catch22 using our hosted online job application system, this service will be provided by a data processor on our behalf (SmartRecruiters).
To process your application, we ask for your personal details including name and contact details. We will ask you about your previous experience, education, referees and for answers to questions relevant to the role you have applied for. The hiring managers for the role, along with our Recruitment and HR teams will have access to all of this information.
Catch22 processes your job application data for the purpose of its legitimate interest to process your HR information.
For more information, please see the SmartRecruiters privacy notice.
Through the SmartRecruiters job application system, it is also possible to sign up for job alerts, which will let you know when new jobs that meet your criteria have been posted.
These alerts are managed by the data processor (SmartRecruiters) on our behalf, and will only be processed using your freely-given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent.
If at any point you wish to unsubscribe from SmartRecruiters job alerts, this can be done by clicking the unsubscribe link on the latest email. You can also log into your SmartRecruiters candidate profile to modify or withdraw your details.
For more information, please see the SmartRecruiters privacy notice.
If you subscribe to Catch22’s newsletter and/or event mailing lists, you will receive regular communications relating to our work. These mailings will be facilitated by a third-party provider, such as Mailchimp or Salesforce (marketing platforms), and your data will be processed by a third-party client relationship management platform, Salesforce.
Catch22 will only process your contact details and send you newsletters following your freely-given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent.
You have the right to unsubscribe from any of our email mailing lists at any time. If you wish to unsubscribe from a Catch22 mailing list please click the unsubscribe link on the latest email or contact dpo@catch-22.org.uk to ensure that you do not continue to receive email newsletters from us. We will need to continue to hold your details after you have unsubscribed to ensure that we do not send you further communications.
For more information, please see the Mailchimp or Salesforce privacy notices as appropriate.
Catch22 processes the data submitted through any of our website contact forms for the purpose of receiving your message and responding to it under the lawful basis of consent, which you give when submitting the form.
We will only use the information supplied to us to deal with the enquiry and any subsequent issues, and to check on the level of service we provide.
These contact forms are processed using the WordPress plugin, Gravity Forms. When these forms are submitted to us, notification emails are automatically generated to send your enquiry to the appropriate team within Catch22 who will store your email for as long as is required to deal with your enquiry and any subsequent issues.
Form submissions are also stored within the Catch22 WordPress database for a period of 90 days. This allows us to identify if there are any issues with forms being received by our teams. After this time, forms and all accompanying personal data are automatically deleted from the system. Gravity Forms does not receive copies of any of forms, or any accompanying personal data, that are submitted via the Catch22 website.
If using our online chat service, Click4Assitance, data collected through the chat service may be shared internally within Catch22 to provide support and improve services.
You have the right to withdraw consent for us to contact you at any time by contacting dpo@catch-22.org.uk. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, which in the United Kingdom is the Information Commissioner’s Office.
For more information, please see the Gravity Forms privacy notice.
Complaints can be submitted using our online feedback form, by emailing feedback@catch-22.org.uk, or by post. Catch22 undertakes the processing of your complaints data as part of its legitimate interests.
When we receive a complaint from a person we make up a file containing the details of the complaint. This normally contains the identity of the complainant and any other individuals involved in the complaint.
We will only use the personal information we collect to process the complaint and to check on the level of service we provide.
We usually have to disclose the complainant’s identity to whoever the complaint is about. This is inevitable where, for example, the accuracy of a person’s record is in dispute. If a complainant doesn’t want information identifying him or her to be disclosed, we will try to respect that. However, it may not be possible to handle a complaint on an anonymous basis.
We will keep personal information contained in complaint files in line with our retention policy. This means that information relating to a complaint will be retained for six years from closure. It will be retained in a secure environment and access to it will be restricted according to the ‘data minimisation’ principle.
For more information, please see the Complaints, Compliments and Feedback policy.
Donations made through our website are processed securely via PayPal. By making a donation, you confirm that you are 18 or over and that the payment details you provide are your own. All donations are final and non-refundable, unless required by law. Please check your information carefully before completing your donation. Once your donation has been processed, you’ll receive confirmation via email from PayPal.
Your donation will help Catch22 continue its work across our programmes and services. Unless stated otherwise, donations will be used where they are needed most to support our charitable objectives. If a specific project or appeal becomes fully funded or cannot proceed, we may use your donation for a similar purpose to achieve the same charitable outcomes.
When you make a donation, we collect and process your personal information in line with our Privacy Policy. This includes your name, contact details, and payment information, which is processed securely by PayPal on our behalf.
The Data Processor (the organisation that does data processing on behalf of Catch22) is Totally.Tech.
Catch22 also works with third-party data processors to provide our:
We have contracts in place with our data processors. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will not share your personal information with any organisation apart from us. They will hold it and retain it for the period we instruct.
Individual Catch22 services may work with additional third-party data processors in line with their contractual requirements. For more information, please see the relevant Service Privacy Notice, which can be downloaded from their service page on this website, or found by searching for the service by name in our Policy Library.
Catch22 may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or data processors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy notice.
In addition, we may disclose information about you:
Except as provided in this privacy notice, Catch22 will not provide your information to third parties without your consent.
Catch22 will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure, encrypted password and firewall protected servers. As data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
Where information is held on our behalf by data processors, we will ensure, to the best of our ability, that they hold your information securely and in line with data protection legislation. We hold contracts with all data processors to make sure that they cannot do anything with your data unless we have instructed them to do so.
We may update this privacy notice from time-to-time. Check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.
Please contact the Data Protection Officer if you have any queries regarding this Privacy Notice or if you would like to exercise or query any of the following rights afforded to you under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
- right to access
- right to erasure
- right to object
- right to rectification
- right to be informed
- right to restrict processing
- right to data portability
- rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling
- right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) – via the Complaints page on the ICO website or by calling 0303 123 1113
For further information on your rights, please visit the Individual Rights page on the ICO website.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or of our treatment of your personal data, please email dpo@catch-22.org.uk or write to:
Data Protection Officer
Catch22
27 Pear Tree Street
London
EC1V 3AG
Catch22’s data protection registration number is Z1473239
Catch22 is a national organisation that works across England and Wales delivering services in a variety of settings. These include schools, colleges, social care, victim services, family support, prisons, apprenticeships and employment support.
We have been around for over 200 years and our focus is about making a difference to people by delivering our 3 ‘P’s – having good people around, having a good place to live/study/work, and having good purpose in life. Different services will focus on different aspects but we aim to address those three elements to support people to thrive.
Catch22 delivers Trailblazer as part of the UK Government-funded Youth Guarantee. Trailblazer is designed to support young people in the Liverpool City Region into work or training. As one of eight Youth Guarantee Trailblazers nationally, the region will pioneer innovative ways to support young people aged 18–21 who are Not in Employment, Education, or Training (NEET). Trailblazer will see the city region test new ways of supporting young people into employment or training, by bringing together and enhancing existing programmes in partnership with local areas. This injection of government funding will turbocharge the Mayor’s existing Young People’s Guarantee, which ensures that local young people who are NEET get a job, training or apprenticeship opportunity within six months.
In order for us to run our programme, we need to know information about you. You will see on the following pages information that tells you what we will need, why we are doing it and what happens to it. We don’t need your consent to do most of this because by signing up to the programme, we are required to collect this information.
All information that is shared with the programme’s funder is fully anonymised and does not identify any of the programme’s participants.
So that we can provide you with a service we will need to collect some information about you. Some things will be obvious but if you have any queries about any of the information we ask you for or why we need it then please ask us. The list below covers the key things we will ask for:
We may ask you to give us some more sensitive information (also known as ‘special data’) like your gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion and/or any disabilities. We will explain to you why we need this information and you are free to refuse to give it if you do not wish to do so.
We need your information for us to remain in contact with you and to keep accurate records of the support you are receiving from or through The Social Switch Project.
The two main pieces of law that apply are:
We do have to have a legal basis for processing your information and this is:
The ‘special data’ that we collect has to meet even more of a legal test and our legal basis for collecting this is:
If you provide us with information about the suspect/offender as part of our service to you, we are able to use that under the Data Protection Act 2018 Part 2 (14) of Schedule 1 where information is gathered for the provision of confidential advice or support to you.
The Information Commissioner’s Office has given further guidance that sets out when these conditions can be used as the legal basis for processing your information and this can be supplied to you if you wish to see it.
All of the information we hold about you comes from you. Additionally, though we may/will hold information that has been gathered from third parties where relevant including:
• Employers
• Apprenticeship providers
• Education providers
• Training Providers
We will ask your consent to share information with any third parties and your adviser will explain this to you and ask you to sign a consent form for what you are prepared to share and with whom.
We will only disclose information about you to third parties without your consent if we are legally obliged to do so.
We hold data securely for the set amount of time shown in the table above. Where we hold information required by law or on the basis of legitimate interest then we will default to 6 years unless otherwise required.
Where your information is only held on the basis of consent then if you withdraw that consent we will no longer use your information and we will delete it from your record.
You will need to be specific about what information you think may be wrong and why, along with what you think we should do to correct it. If you can prove the information is incorrect, we will change it. If we cannot amend your record in the way you would like, we will explain the reason for this. You will be able to see a copy of your amended record.
You have a number rights over your data that we are required by law to uphold. You have the following rights:
If you would like to request a copy of the information we hold about you, please contact dpo@catch-22.org.uk.
If you think the information we hold on you is wrong, please contact dpo@catch-22.org.uk.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or of our treatment of your personal data, email dpo@catch-22.org.uk or write to: Data Protection Officer, Catch22, 27 Pear Tree Street, London, EC1V 3AG
If you feel that we have not processed your data correctly and in accordance with GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, you have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioners Office (body that regulates Data Protection).
Please visit https://ico.org.uk/ or call 0303 123 1113 in order to lodge a complaint with the regulator.