Beyond Your Limits is an employability programme for care-experienced young people. Apply Now and #FindYourFuture
The Beyond Your Limits programme has been specifically designed with and for care-experienced young people in education, aged 16-20. On the programme you will receive paid employability training, multiple work experience placements, a personal development grant, a business mentor and progression coach.
What’s Involved
The Beyond Your Limits programme offers up to two years of support, with the first year of training delivered mainly in the school holidays to fit around your school or college commitments.
On the Beyond Your Limits programme, you will:
- Receive employability skills training and financial literacy sessions, to gain a wide variety of transferrable skills and give you a head start in your career
- Be given the opportunity of two separate paid work experience placements, up to 8 days in total
- Have access to a volunteer business mentor to offer advice and guidance for the first 10 months of the programme
- Be offered monthly sessions with a dedicated progression coach for up to two years
- Be entitled to two x £200 personal development grants
- Complete a formal level two qualification in understanding emotional wellbeing from the Royal Society for Public Health
- Be invited to a series of alumni events following the programme, for networking, personal and professional development
What You Will Gain
The programme will help you develop key skills that are essential for reaching your true potential and taking your first steps into a career, including:
- Increased self confidence
- Effective communication and presentation skills
- Improved financial literacy
- Stronger self and career ambition
Please note the Beyond Your Limits programme is currently being run through a combination of face to face and online delivery. The programme is supported by a range of employer partners across the UK, in a variety of sectors, and has been created with the support of the CareTech Foundation.
How To Take Part
The Beyond Your Limits programme is run on a referral basis only.
This means we require an application from a teacher, youth organisation, social worker, local council professional or other support worker. If you are a young person who is keen to take this opportunity, please share this information with them, or you can get in touch directly.
By mailing – beyondyourlimits@eyfoundation.ey.com
