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Boost

Supporting 16-30 year olds in across West Norfolk with opportunities for improved skills and jobs, through UK Shared Prosperity Funding (UKSPF)

Boost team photo 2024
The Boost team

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 library job clubs

Session 1

  • Date: Friday 15 November, 2pm - 5pm
  • Location: King’s Lynn Library

Session 2

  • Date: Monday 18 November, 10am - 12pm
  • Location: Gaywood Library

Session 3

  • Date: Friday 22 November, 10am - 12pm
  • Location: Downham Market Library

Session 4

  • Date: Tuesday 26 November, 2pm - 4pm
  • Location: Hunstanton Library

Session 5

  • Date: Thursday 28 November, 3pm - 5pm
  • Location: Dersingham Library

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.

Contact boost@norfolk.gov.uk to find out more.

Boost referral form

Confidence Skills Boost in Sports

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  • Location: Alive Lynnsport, Greenpark Avenue, King's Lynn, PE30 2NB
  • Date: 14, 21 and 28 January 2025
  • Time: 11am - 12pm
  • Age: 16 - 25 year olds

Join us every Tuesday through January at Lynnsport, where we will be putting on various sessions to help you boost your confidence. Come along and learn the benefits of physical activity, practical healthy eating and mental health and resilience.

Available to 16-25 year olds living in West Norfolk. Participants will need to be wearing practical kit eg. trainers, track bottoms/shorts, tshirts.

To find out more please contact Paul Martin on boost@norfolk.gov.uk.

Boost referral form

New-U’s Employability Workshops

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  • Location: King’s Lynn Job Centre, Chapel Street, King's Lynn, PE30 1EX
    • Date: Friday 22 November, 10am - 2.30pm
    • Date: Friday 13 December, 10am - 2.30pm

If you are 18+ and unemployed, New-U's Employability Workshops will help you gain confidence and tips for finding and securing work.

Join us to learn new skills, build your confidence and develop your CV.

To find out more please contact Paul Martin on boost@norfolk.gov.uk.

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.