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Issued:28 November 2011

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The Prince's Trust Comes to Melton Mowbray

The Prince’s Trust Team is a free 12-week programme of personal development and training. Unemployed young people aged from 16 to 25 can join a Prince’s Trust Team, which has up to 15 participants who take part in a challenging programme which begins with team-building activities, including a week at a residential activity centre followed by team-work on real projects in the local community as well as individual work placements. By creating a unique group of people, with different skills and backgrounds, the Team provides an environment where people can open their eyes to new experiences.

A new Team in Melton Mowbray starts on 23 January 2012 and there will be a launch presentation, followed by lunch, on Wednesday 30 November at 12.30pm at PERA Innovation Park, Nottingham Road, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE13 0PB.

The programme aims to re-engage young people by enabling them to develop the skills, confidence and motivation to increase their employability and help them get their lives working. It also offers the opportunity for young people to achieve nationally recognised qualifications.

The programme is particularly suited to young people who may face barriers and lack the opportunities to reach their full potential. In particular we try to help people who are educational underachievers, including people with low basic skills, offenders or ex-offenders, long-term unemployed, and those in or leaving care.

Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service delivers the programme as a partner of the Prince’s Trust.

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Interviews and enquiries

Juliet Briggs, Delivery Partner Manager - 0116 287 2241, juliet.briggs@lfrs.org

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Notes to editor

The Team programme was launched back in 1990 by HRH The Prince of Wales, The Prince’s Trust President. The course, originally called the Volunteers programme, supported more than 50,000 young people in the first decade. Today, more than 130,000 have completed the course contributing 15-and-a-half million hours of volunteering work in their local communities which is estimated to be worth almost £70 million to society*.

In 2010/11 the Team programme was delivered to 9,560 people nationally. Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service has been a Delivery Partner of The Prince’s Trust since 1997 and has delivered 135 programmes to over 1800 young people.

*15-and-a-half million hours volunteering calculated to be almost £70 million in today’s terms is based on national minimum wage values October 2010.