ANTA Education and ANTA Community Training CIC was set up in 2019 to help address unemployment by offering free access to training for job seekers. We have supported hundreds of job seekers to achieve short accredited qualifications which boosts their confidence and adds value to their CV, helping them into employment.
We have been working with Schools in Telford for the past 12 months with limited funding. We've met with with many schools across Shropshire and the West Midlands who love the idea of what we can offer. However we're constantly hitting a wall as schools have limited funds.
The intervention that we can offer students can be invaluable. Working with year 10 and year 11 students our qualifications can help prepare them for work, give them direction for their career but for many the confidence to achieve a short qualification is the most beneficial.
When pupils struggle at school, the target of GSCE qualifications can feel daunting, long term and unachievable. However, when they are given access to shorter vocational qualifications they get to understand how achievable qualifications can be and how they can help boost their longer term options.
We've helped students with Health and Safety in construction, customer service, mental health, food safety and many more.
Our hope is to make a difference to school leavers and give them a direction for real life when they exit full time education.
This funding round will help us to support 1 group of learners at a local secondary school. It will give students access to qualifications that they wouldn't normally have the chance to achieve in school. We expect around 20 to 30 pupils to have the opportunity to access this support.
If success this initial project will help us build a case study to attract funders for schools in the future.
Through UKSPF funding we have supported more than 70 students in Telford through this model. However as funding chances there are limited options for schools to support students in this way.