2018 Skills Highway promotion and awarenesspayment
The Skills Highway programme pays afee to organisations that supportworkplace literacy and numeracy promotional and awareness-raising activities.
This fee is paid forpromotional, awareness-raising and development activities that lead to significantly increased employer support for workplace literacy and numeracy. Priority will be given to applications where the activities result in the employer accessing the Workplace Literacy and Numeracy Fund (either TEO or Employer-led).
Application
The application form and guidelines are on the following page.
Eligibility
A range of organisations are eligible to receive the promotion and awareness payment. These may include industry training organisations, industry or employer associations, unions, and educational or workplace consultants.
Providers, contractors and employers who directly access WLN funding for provision in respect of that workplace’s application are not eligible to receive the promotion and awareness fee.
Payment
The feeis $2,000 (ex. GST) and will be paid on approval of the application by the E-WLN fund Assessment Panel.
Funding available
Please note that this is a capped fund. For 2018, there is $20,000 available for promotion and awareness payments.
For further information, please contact Nicky Murray, Programme Manager Skills Highway
Email:
Name of Organisation:
Contact person:
Contact details:
Description of promotional, awareness-raising or development activities:
Please provide a brief description of the activities your organisation has been undertaking in this area. Examples may include:
- Working with companies to help them understand the LN profile of their workforce
- Engaging with industry or employer associations to raise awareness of the importance of workplace LN
- Connecting employers to LN provision and supporting that provision.
- Connecting employers to other training interventions that support LN, e.g.
- a health and safety initiative
- an in-house mentoring programme
- a financial literacy programme
- Stimulating employers to undertake non-training interventions that support LN such as:
- reorganising work flows
- enriching jobs through increased task variety
- reorganising staff social spaces to encourage verbal interaction where ESOL is a challenge.
Time frame for those activities:
Please outline the time frame over which these activities have taken place.
Employer or industry testament of impact of those activities:
Examples may include:
- A brief letter of endorsement from an employer or industry association
- A company news item
- A video clip.
Use of the Workplace Literacy and Numeracy Fund:
Have the promotion and awareness activities resulted in the employer accessing the WLN Fund? If so, please provide details:
Future impact:
Please indicate how these activities contribute to sustainable workplace literacy and numeracy solutions. Please also indicate if these activities are likely to result in a future application to (or use of) the Workplace Literacy and Numeracy Fund, other funds (e.g. increased industry training access), or non-funded training activity.