Social Value: Career and Transition Skills Support
Social Value Support Offer
As highlighted in last weeks About Towns newsletter, in addition to supporting towns in the development of TIPs and Business Cases, the Towns Fund Delivery Partner are committed to delivering activities designed to create social value across the 101 Towns. The first activity we are rolling out in this wider programme is Career and Transition Skills support.
What do we mean by ‘Career and Transition Skills support’?
We know this is a difficult time for many, with lockdown, furlough and redundancy leading to a number of people facing careers changes, and younger people leaving school and college struggling to find work. We are offering our staff to support an organisation that has an initiative or event related to these topics. This could range from providing career advice and reviewing CVs, hosting career fairs, or conducting mock interviews. We know how important these can be for those looking to start their career, or find a new one, and our staff are eager to support in any way they can.
Towns are invited to identify initiatives or events that they believe could use our support, and put our Social Value Coordinators in touch with local organisers (e.g. schools, colleges, training hubs). If you’re interested and want to find out more, please contact your Town Coordinator who will put you in touch with our Social Value Coordinators.
We are rolling out other support through our Social Value Programme over the course of the Towns Fund programme, so stay tuned for further details.
Meet our team
Laetitia Lucy, Social Value Coordinator
Laetitia is a Senior Consultant in Arup’s City Economics team in London. With a background in the social sciences, Laetitia strives to ensure each project she works on drives positive change in communities. Laetitia has been instrumental in pursuing Social Value in Arup and knows the importance of considering Social Value at every stage of a project, policy or programme’s development. Laetitia is also training to become an accredited Social Return on Investment practitioner. She has also been working with many towns in the South and West region as part of the TFDP, supporting on vision, strategy and project prioritisation. She is also working with Alison Ball, our service lead for Social Value.
Greyson Clark, Social Value Coordinator
Greyson Clark is a Planner in with Arup’s Planning team in London. He works in strategic planning, master planning, and the planning and implementation of major infrastructure projects. In all his projects Greyson considers the impact on the community and how we can plan to maximise social value. Prior to joining the team at Arup, Greyson worked with the Pratt Center for Community Development in New York City. Greyson collaborated with Laetitia in producing their team’s Social Value Strategy.