The Development Partnership

Key Project

The project will enhance the progression of individuals who are in low paid employment but lack the necessary skills to help them integrate and develop their potential.

The Lead Partner in this Development Partnership is Cresco Trust Ltd.

KEY Project

This Development Partnership will operate in the Derry and Strabane Council areas which have high levels of deprivation and unemployment.

The project has three main objectives:

• Assist integration into employment for those that are hard to employ;
• Enhance the progression of individuals who are in low paid employment but lack the necessary skills to help them integrate and develop their potential; and
• Engage employers, who have the capacity to offer employment

The objectives will be achieved by organising a series of three week intensive training programmes facilitated within the various participating community organisations.

Additionally the project will work with employers to assist them with identifying skill shortages into which the unemployed and those in low paid employment may progress.

Development Partnership Members:

- Cresco Trust Ltd
- Londonderry Chamber of Commerce
- Strabane Chamber of Commerce
- Strabane District Council
- North West Institute of Further and Higher Education
- Strabane & District Community Education Forum
- Strabane Community Unemployed Resource Centre
- City Centre Initiative
- Enterprise Ulster
- Women in Enterprise
- Newbuildings Community & Environment Association
- Off the Streets Initiative
- Tullyally & District Development Group

- Republic of Ireland
- Spain
- Poland*

* This DP left the Transnational Partnership in February 2006 following confirmation that it was not approved for Action 2.

Gillian Doherty
Cresco Trust Ltd
20 Pump Street
L’Derry
BT48 6JG

Tel: +44.(0)28.7126 9400
Fax: +44.(0)28.7130 8077
E-mail: gillian@crescotrust.com