Supporting 16-30 year olds in across West Norfolk with opportunities for improved skills and jobs, through UK Shared Prosperity Funding (UKSPF)
Young people
BOOST provides individual support for 16-30 year olds across the whole of West Norfolk from April 2024.
Tailored to the persons situation BOOST can offer a range of opportunities to support young people, providing employability support, basic skills, training, and mentoring; get in touch with us if you are:
- aged 16-18 and leaving College or Sixth Form? Maybe you are not in education, employment, or training
- aged 18-30 and unemployed, looking for work or support
- aged 18-30 in employment but feel you would benefit from some training
With the BOOST project, we can support you to feel inspired, build your skills, or help you develop your career.
We are a person-led project, and we will endeavour to create the right support package to suit your needs. This could be helping to support your confidence to get into work, training, mentoring or formal qualifications. From marketing to fork-lift truck driving - we have it all.
You can email us at boost@norfolk.gov.uk to find out more and we will get in touch with you.
Current Projects
Library Job Club
Boost have teamed up with libraries in West Norfolk to offer a personalised drop-in service that can help you with training, confidence building, free employment support and signposting to other services within West Norfolk.
There is no need to book, just turn up between the times stated to speak to a member of the team.
Available dates
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 20 February 2025 | 2pm - 3:30pm | Downham Market Library |
| Friday 21 February 2025 | 2pm - 5pm | King’s Lynn Library |
Contact boost@norfolk.gov.uk to find out more.
Health and social care awareness sessions
Start your health and social career journey today by taking this opportunity to learn both life skills and gain increased confidence with our new health and social care course.
If you are aged between 16 and 30and not in training, education or employment, then we want to hear from you! Courses are free and all you need to do is sign up.
To find out more please contact Paul Martin on boost@norfolk.gov.uk.
Available dates
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 26 February 2025 | 10am - 12:15pm | School of Nursing Studies, College of West Anglia, Tennyson Avenue, King's Lynn, PE30 2QW |
| Monday 3 March 2025 | 1pm - 3:15pm | Downham Market Library, 78 Priory Rd, Downham Market, PE38 9JS |
Free construction work experience
VIY and Boost are teaming up to support local young people with a range of construction-focused training and employability opportunities.
If you are 16+ and unemployed take this opportunity to learn hand-on trade skills from professionals and earn City & Guilds accreditations work.
To register on this project contact jojo@teamviy.com.
Available dates
| Date | Location |
|---|---|
| 24 February - 7 March 2025 | St Augustine Family Centre, Columbia Way, King’s Lynn, PE30 2 LB |
Confidence Building Workshop
If you want to develop your confidence, employability and communication skills in a creative environment, join us at The Workshop and learn the how to build confidence, self-belief, goal setting, teambuilding, communication and creativity.
Available to 16-24 year olds living in West Norfolk who are not in employment or education.
To find out more please contact Paul Martin on boost@norfolk.gov.uk.
Available dates
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 7 March 2025 | 10am - 2pm | The Workshop, 38 New Conduit St, King's Lynn, PE30 1DL |
| Friday 14 March 2025 | 10am - 2pm | The Workshop, 38 New Conduit St, King's Lynn, PE30 1DL |
Employers
Are you an employer in West Norfolk? Would you like support to upskill your team members who are aged 16-30? This may be because they need new skills, or you want to develop your workforce.
Or perhaps you would like to find out more about how you can help young people locally, how you can inspire them into your industry, or into a particular career path.
You can email boost@norfolk.gov.uk to find out how we can support you, or how to get your training funded through the West Norfolk Training Grant.
Project background
The BOOST project brings together a unique partnership of local organisations - with leadership and support from Norfolk County Council and the Borough Council of King’s Lynn & West Norfolk - to transform the prospects of some of the most marginalised young people across West Norfolk.
Originally funded by The Town Deal Fund in King’s Lynn until March 2024, the project is now extending Borough-wide from April 2024, with support from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Our partnership has already supported over 500 young people facing the most significant barriers to accessing learning and work, who are now able to recognise their talents and realise their potential, while BOOST provides a support framework that will increase the skills within our local workforce.
The project has developed a range of engagement and support activities for young people, raising aspirations and promoting accessible support activities, specialist training provision and employment opportunities.
It provides:
- a conduit to Careers/IAG and youth support services
- a central information point and referral mechanism, maximising local engagement with regional/countywide provision, including other UK Shared Prosperity Fund programmes and National Funding
- a coordinating agency for education and business links in the locality, increasing opportunities for young people and developing a local response to workforce skills requirements
The BOOST Project is being led by Norfolk County Council working with The King’s Lynn & West Norfolk Skills Group.