Financial Grant Assistance for Nottinghamshire Businesses and Organisations
The Jobs Fund is a £1.5million scheme that has been introduced by Nottingham City Council to help jobseekers back in to work – but how does this benefit your business? We asked Rachel Graham is the Project Manager working along side Nottingham City Council to help promote the scheme and we asked her how the scheme works. Rachel said “We've been asked to help introduce the Nottingham Job fund to private sector companies, encouraging them to create new roles for unemployed people from Nottingham by providing a financial incentive. For each new role that is filled through the Nottingham Jobs Fund, the scheme contributes 50% of the yearly salary and in certain circumstances up to 75%! There are limits on the total amounts paid based on a formula and number of hours worked, but…