Kickstart Community

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Kickstart Community is a team of social innovators who want to give young people entering the most hostile labour market since the 1980s the opportunity to swim and not simply tread water.

Incubated by charity and social business Catch22, we are bringing together purposeful employers and young people for Kickstart placements with a difference. We bring deep knowledge and networks in social innovation, building at scale, and policy.

OFFER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Kickstart offers 16-24 year olds currently on Universal Credit and at risk of long term unemployment a six months paid placement for 25 hours a week, and a salary at the National Minimum Wage or higher (age dependent).

In addition, Kickstart Community will offer them:

Wraparound employability and sector-specific skills training

Up to 5 hours a week
Volunteering opportunities with local civic organisations

Up to 5 hours a week

Mentoring and guaranteed interviews with employers to support progression
A shared sense of social purpose built through a national community of participants

Join a national community of high impact, purposeful employers. Kickstart Community will:

Take care of the administrative pain of bidding and engaging with government
Manage referrals and onboarding so that you interview the right candidates for you
Provide wraparound support and skills training to young people while on placement

Offer volunteering opportunities to every young person so they gain leadership skills
Support progression for young people through guaranteed interviews and jobs fayres
We will do this in exchange for a share of the £1,500 support costs. Employers will pay wage costs and be reimbursed bi-monthly in arrears.

Our senior team includes figures who have built national civic organisations, such as the Raspberry Pi Foundation and The Challenge, at pace; leaders in social innovation from Catch22 and the National Citizens Service; and who have overseen national policy from Government departments and No.10 Downing Street.

Find out more about our people

Kickstart Community is a team of social innovators who want to give young people entering the most hostile labour market since the 1980s the opportunity to swim and not simply tread water.

OFFER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

In addition, Kickstart Community will offer them:

Wraparound employability and sector-specific skills training

Volunteering opportunities with local civic organisations

Mentoring and guaranteed interviews with employers to support progression

A shared sense of social purpose built through a national community of participants

OFFER FOR EMPLOYERS

Join a national community of high impact, purposeful employers. Kickstart Community will:

HOW IT WORKS

OUR TEAM

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