CABWI Awarding Body is a leading awarding body for the Street Works and Street Works Reassessment Schemes in excavation and reinstatment of the highways, offering vocational qualifications for those working in the water and wider utilities industries.

They have been working with Jay Charity Consultancy Services to develop a series grants programme to support lifelong learning and development.

Funding Aims

To support people undertaking lifelong learning and development that enables people to enter the labour market or gain additional skills to further develop their career.

Fund Themes

Your programme of work that you provide to support people should meet one of our main fund’s themes.

1. To reach and work with individuals with complex barriers to employment, enabling them to move closer or into employment, including but not restricted to ex-service personnel and ex-offenders.

2. Increase the life skills of people so that they may further develop their careers, with a particular focus on the water, utilities, and construction industries

Funding Priorities

Your programme of work that you provide to support people should meet one of our main fund’s priorities:

1. Support to reach and work with individuals with complex barriers to employment gain relevant qualifications to enter the water, utilities, and construction industries workforce.

Please Note: Relevant CABWI qualifications could be provided free of charge.

2. Support to reach and work with ex-service personnel and ex-offenders

3. Projects that have clear and well-established connections to employers who can offer meaningful work experience and/or employment

Grant size

Grants of up to £10,000 for one year.

What will we fund?

The funding will be made available to allow organisation to provide bursaries and/or cover expenses for their beneficiaries who are looking to start or are undertaking training courses to ease the financial burden caused by the cost-of-living crisis.

These costs could be:

· Child care

· Transport costs

· Equipment costs – not covered by the course

· Materials costs – not covered by the course

· Registration costs- not covered by the course.

Closing date for applications is 19th August 2022 at 6pm

For more information and to apply, please visit CABWI Cost of living fund (jayconsultancy.org.uk)