Our work |
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Sixteen runs a range of employment education and enterprise programmes in and around Bristol. We work with a range of partners, practitioners and providers to deliver better job outcomes for people with learning difficulties and/or autistic people. Our current programmes are shown below
We Work for Everyone
We work for Everyone is designed to support people with a learning difficulty, and autistic people in the West of England to find a pathway into paid work. It aims to empower people by finding employment, promoting independence and challenging social isolation. Sixteen is working with partners from Bristol City Councils' Employment Skills and Learning Team, to offer evidenced based supported employment services aimed at people in the community or completing one of the internship programmes. In addition, we continue to work with people with a learning disability who have already been supported into work. 
A Clean Sweep Co-operative Ltd
Clean Sweep is a co-operative run by people with learning difficulties which offers office and domestic cleaning services across Bristol. www.acleansweep.org.uk/ We are delighted to be part of a unique collaboration between Clean Sweep and two other well-known local co-operatives - Sixteen Co-operative Ltd and Co-operative Assistance Network Limited (CAN). This exciting new venture will not only ensure Clean Sweeps current business activities can continue with the specialist support that Sixteen can offer but to create opportunities to enable all co-operatives to thrive beyond the pandemic. As community inclusivity already sits at the heart of everything we do, our focus will continue to be on disable people, our members and our wider community. 
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Supported Internships
Working with colleagues from the City of Bristol College, Bristol City Council and the NHS, Sixteen providers specialist job coaching support on number of internship Programmes designed for young people with a Special Educational Need or Disability (SEND) who want to work. 1 - Project Search Project SEARCH, is a pioneering internship scheme which started in America and has run successfully in Bristol for several years. With the classroom now based at the NHS most placements are within the host employer although some, of course, may be external. Students attend the classroom each day before heading out to their placements. 2 - Bristol Supported Internship Programme (B-SiP) B-SiP shares many similarities with Project Search but instead, is based at the College site in the centre of town and works with a number of local businesses in Bristol to provide three work placements a year. The interns spent time in the classroom and then travel out to their work placements. Here they are support by both a course tutor and job coach 3 - Into Catering. This programme is designed for young people who want to work in the catering and hospitality industry. The interns spend two days per week with a tutor learning kitchen skills. The remaining 3 days per week are spent on placement, with interns practising and developing their skills in preparation for work. 4 - Project Bristol Project Bristol is based within Bristol City Council and typically designed for people who are interested in trying roles in administration. Interns are typically supported into three different placements that lean towards the administrative opportunities available within the City Council. 5 - Parkway Based at the City of Bristol College site in Parkway, students are typically supported to carry out job roles in different placements that focus mainly on more practical opportunities available from a wider variety of community employers. Mainly practical, with less classroom time than other internships, this programme has an emphasis on students who want to maximise time at work. |
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Bristol WORKS
Working with colleagues from Bristol City Council, Sixteen is seeking to achieve a step change in the engagement and support of young people with SEND, their parents/carers, education settings and employers so that we can improve career aspirations and provide targeted support to improve employment outcomes for young people.
This work includes
Working with colleagues from Bristol City Council, Sixteen is seeking to achieve a step change in the engagement and support of young people with SEND, their parents/carers, education settings and employers so that we can improve career aspirations and provide targeted support to improve employment outcomes for young people.
This work includes
- Increasing the awareness of young people and parents/carers of potential career options and the life benefits of continuing in education, training and employment
- Delivering the ‘My Working Future Programme to local schools
- Support young people to develop the beginnings of a career plan outlining aspirations and possible routes into the world of work
- To create supporting resources that can be used with young people and parents/carers to ensure the work can continue inn schools at the end of the project
