SAMEE

Unrestricted grant over 3 years towards the core costs of SAMEE

SAMEE equips people with disabilities and additional needs with essential skills to become successfully self-employed. Set up in 2016 in Dorset by founders with personal experience of disabilities, to date SAMEE have supported over 1,400 people. ....more

SAMEE equips people with disabilities and additional needs with essential skills to become successfully self-employed. Set up in 2016 in Dorset by founders with personal experience of disabilities, to date SAMEE have supported over 1,400 people. Their award-winning Steps into Self-Employment course sees 75% of graduates move on to self-employment. Impact evaluation shows that for every £1 SAMEE spends, £115.92 of social value is created.

Frontline organisations led by women, to protect essential services for women most impacted by the cost-of-living-crisis.

Funding the Steps into Self Employment programme which provides intensive support to deliver personal financial and confidencce-building training to 12 young people with learning disabilities.

This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant of £90,000, a percentage of which the organisation uses to run the programme (shown here), and the remainder ....more

This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant of £90,000, a percentage of which the organisation uses to run the programme (shown here), and the remainder is awarded as hardship grants to individual women 18+, who are further supported by the organisation's specialist services. Percentages are agreed with Smallwood in advance.

This funding will be used to increase individual women's proximity to the labour market with a view to securing sustainable employment opportunities. 

This funding will support SAMEE Disabled Entrepreneurs Business Start-up Service (DEBSS) over three years. They aim to narrow the disability employment gap and help make the Dorset disabled community stronger through self-employment skills-building ....more

This funding will support SAMEE Disabled Entrepreneurs Business Start-up Service (DEBSS) over three years. They aim to narrow the disability employment gap and help make the Dorset disabled community stronger through self-employment skills-building projects.

A one-off payment (Uplift Grant) to support organisation's operations and overheads during the cost-of-living crisis

Supporting a job club to enable 10 residents from a deprived area to escape living in poverty by building new skills/confidence in order to gain sustainable employment.

Ukranian Entrepreneurs Business Start-up Service Plus - initially supporting 12 Ukrainian refugees to explore routes into self-employment

This one-year project facilitates a job club delivering employability skills training to 12 unemployed residents from the Somerford Estate, Christchurch. It provides participants with peer support and skills to get into employment, including CV ....more

This one-year project facilitates a job club delivering employability skills training to 12 unemployed residents from the Somerford Estate, Christchurch. It provides participants with peer support and skills to get into employment, including CV writing and interview skills. At the end of the project the aim is for participants to continue facilitating the job club independently.

Funding facilitated a 12-month project which enabled 25 disabled adults to escape poverty through successful self-employment start-up.

The funding will be used to peer mentor people with disabilities in order to assist them in finding employment. The project aims to teach valuable skills whilst providing advice and guidance.

This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant and organisations then award hardship grants to individual women 18+ integrated with their specialist support ....more

This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant and organisations then award hardship grants to individual women 18+ integrated with their specialist support services.

Support for NHS referrals to Disabled Entrepreneurs Business Support Service - helping disabled people to explore self-employment

Mentor scheme to support 10 disabled women to explore and prepare self-employment

towards two years' running costs of a project providing employment skills for disabled people in Solent, Hampshire

This project aims to enable 30 disabled women to rebuild after Covid-19, giving them to best chance of reaching their full potential through successful employment.

towards ongoing costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)

This two-year project provides employability skills training and confidence building sessions for unemployed lone parents living on the Somerford estate in Christchurch, Dorset, who are struggling to find employment that fits around their parenting ....more

This two-year project provides employability skills training and confidence building sessions for unemployed lone parents living on the Somerford estate in Christchurch, Dorset, who are struggling to find employment that fits around their parenting needs. The project enables them to develop their self-employment/employment skills and improve their well-being. A participant steering group ensures the project continues to meet their needs. Participants form new connections with one another and build networks with other local self-employed lone parents.

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to SAMEE, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.

Single Mums Into Lifelong Enterprise (SMILE)

COVID19 : purchase IT and communication equipment for a charity that works with adults with disabilities in Dorset

The funding will be used to provide holistic well-being support and detailed financial advocacy for disabled people during and after the COVID-19 crisis.

Grant to SAMEE to support the organisation through COVID19

We would like to develop the entrepreneurial skills of our primary school children so they are equipped for the future world of work.

Towards the self-employment project for lone mothers.

With our new project we would like to change the behaviour of single mothers away from a mindset of benefit dependency. Our project will help to build entrepreneurial skills and increase confidence to raise aspirations so female single parents can ....more

With our new project we would like to change the behaviour of single mothers away from a mindset of benefit dependency. Our project will help to build entrepreneurial skills and increase confidence to raise aspirations so female single parents can transform their lives and become positive role models in workless households. The service users on our new project will build new skills as we take them through the process of business start-up planning, and studying towards a nationally recognised level 1 qualification in enterprise skills will further develop their confidence and employability skills. We have already established a track record for delivering social impact for the local disabled community in Dorset via our recent DEBSS project. Our impact target for the new project is to improve on the results of DEBSS where we engaged 92 disabled clients and supported 19 into sustainable self-employment. Our measurable expected outcomes for the 12 month SMILE project will be to: - 1. Recruit 50 Bournemouth & Poole based unemployed single mothers. 2. Enable 30 female single parents to secure self-employment or traditional employment. 3. Engage 70% of single mothers onto positive outcome activities such as volunteering, work experience or developing further learning. 4. Increase confidence and well-being of service users by 50% before they exit the project. Our new project meets all 3 Tampon Tax Community Fund objectives. For building social networks we will introduce a networking club after 6 months which will bring together new single mother entrepreneurs. The club will create a chance for them to work together collaboratively in a supportive local network to help decrease social isolation. Our new partnership with The Red Box project will also ensure that dependant children of our service users who are living in poverty stay healthy with access to free sanitary products if needed.

The funding will be used to run an employability programme for people with disabilities. The project aims to provide tailored support through business advisors and volunteer mentors that lead to increased employment.

This project is to help disabled people in West Dorset to take control of their lives by starting their own business and lifting them out of poverty with specialist workshops and personalised mentoring support.

We want to obtain CPD accreditation so that we can get the best mentors for our people who understand barriers and the problems faced.

The funding will be used to pilot a project aimed at providing tailored business start-up support for disabled people, to increase personal and employability skills and support people into self-employment.