Grant received!

Go4 Enterprises has received confirmation that it has been awarded a grant of £7.500 from  the Partnership Investment Programme (Grants) of Colchester Borough Council.

The grant is to help Go4 Enterprises to assist more young people in the NEET category within the Colchester borough in this financial year 2012-2013.

We are very excited at this success, which will help move us forward with our objectives of helping more young people move into training, education and employment.

The initial payment of £3,500 is to help fund training and equipment. The remaining £4,000 will be paid on results. These are basically:

  • Provide reports on how many clients have gone into work or additional training, how many were male/female, ethnicity, location by ward etc.
  • Increase the number of hours of voluntary work undertaken by clients from 1,800 hours (figure for 2011-12) to 2,000 hours for 2012-2013.
  • Increase the number of clients that get back into work from 20% (2011-12) to 25% in 2012-2013.

We are well on the way to already meeting these objectives and are already looking at ways in which we can build on this grant and achieve even more.

If you are interested in supporting our work with donations or are a grant-making body interested in funding Go4 Enterprises we would love to her from you. We will update the website with news of how this grant is used in the near future.

Enterprising Young People

GO4 Enterprises is a recently formed Community Interest Company, based in Colchester, Essex.

A group of local Christians have joined together to respond to the growing unemployment rate amongst young people, particularly from those with a disadvantaged background.

Our aims are to provide training, work and ongoing support to young people unable to get employment.

We also wish to encourage a culture of enterprise amongst the young people we will be engaging with, exploring their interests and ideas and assisting them in making their ideas happen, through the establishment of a portfolio of GO4 services and businesses that reflect their ambitions, goals and dreams.