OBJECTIVE ONE HELPS FUND FURTHER WORK BY CORNISH MENTAL HEALTH CHARITY

Three projects to further develop work by Pentreath Industries, the Cornish charity that helps people recovering from mental ill-health, have been approved for European funding through the Objective One programme.

NOW 3 is the next phase of a project that gives women individually-focussed vocational training and employment support, offering a non-threatening environment for those whose life experience excludes them from mixed gender situations.

The next, two-year phase of the project will cost around £470,000 and has been awarded a grant of £212,000 from the European Social Fund (ESF) through Objective One.

Working Well 2 is the next phase of a project that helps those recovering from mental ill-health to learn transferable skills that can help them enter, or re-enter, the labour market. An ESF grant of nearly £144,500 has been awarded for the next, six-month phase of this project, which is worth £362,050. Additional funding is being provided by Cornwall College and Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust.

An ESF grant of just over £19,500 has been approved for the charity’s Pentreath Training Centre. Funding the centre until the end of 2002 will cost almost £48,000 – other money will come from the Employment Service and Cornwall College.