Welcome to the Neighbourgood, Prosper!
Welcome to the Neighbourgood, Prosper!
Leading charity consortium appoints Neighbourgood for employability programme push
One of Northern Ireland’s leading charity consortiums has appointed CSR consultancy Neighbourgood to help boost its employability programmes.
Funded by the UK Government’s prosperity fund, Prosper an NI charity consortium supporting People, Diversity, Opportunities, Employment and Success provides tailored support for people who want to gain new skills, qualifications and employment.
The consortium, comprised of five well-established organisations - AEL, Appleby Trust, CAN, Stepping Stones NI and Triangle Housing Association (lead partner) - has been making significant strides in delivering a range of services for economically inactive people, including those with disabilities, neurodiversity, mental health issues, and individuals returning to employment after extended leave.
The partnership with Neighbourgood will run throughout 2024 and 2025, supporting Prosper as it continues its vital work under the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) tenure and beyond. This collaboration aims to help harness public support on addressing economic inactivity issues, engage businesses keen to explore non-traditional recruitment, and elevate the Prosper brand.
The charity’s campaigns will be led by Neighbourgood director Alex Symington and the agency’s team will report to all five members of the consortium, which is chaired by Margaret Haddock, MBE.
Alex said: “We’re so excited to be working with the Prosper team. The consortium does important work in communities across Northern Ireland to remove barriers to employment and we’re over the moon to be supporting them to meet their goals. The Neighbourgood team has a wealth of experience of creating campaigns that help people get access to employment and we’re looking forward to working with the Prosper team over the coming weeks and months on many important programmes.”
Margaret Haddock, MBE, Chair of Prosper, added: “The Neighbourgood team has both the passion and experience to help take Prosper to the next level and we are all excited to be working with them. Neighbourgood’s work in the CSR space, combined with the team’s experience working on employability programmes, made the company the natural choice for this partnership.”
Neighbourgood is The Clearbox Group’s dedicated community engagement agency that supports organisations with the strategic development of CSR campaigns.
Neighbourgood’s offerings include helping businesses connect with their local community and employees, vetting the financial and reputational impact of potential charity partnerships and measuring the impact of new and existing CSR programmes. Neighbourgood is working with large and small organisations across the UK and Ireland.
Since 2015, Clearbox has worked with the community engagement teams of national brands, helping to manage relationships between the brands and local charities, schools and voluntary organisations. The team has provided these brands with support for partnership sourcing and vetting, impact tracking, project management and communications.
