CRT Engage

What is CRT Engage?

CRT Engage is our health, skills and jobs programme. Our teams work with you to help you achieve your goals. You can sign up to CRT Engage through our website or other local organisations.

One to one support

Our CRT Engage coaches in England will offer support to achieve your goals – whether it’s building your confidence, helping you with healthy eating advice or managing chronic pain your coach is there to listen and offer advice to help tackle your issues. To sign up to CRT Engage in England and access one to one support please click here.

This project is part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund being delivered in partnership through the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Wakefield Council.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information visit the UK Shared Prosperity Fund website.

Group activities

Loneliness can affect us all and our CRT Engage team in England can help by supporting you to volunteer or join new groups so you can make new friends. We also run our own groups covering everything from community cafes to yoga so we’re likely to have a group to suit you!

Courses

Our teams in England and Scotland can help you find free training to improve your skills, whether it’s an online or in person course or our own training from our Scotland team on things like first aid or food hygiene we’re here to help!

Job training

Our CRT Worx activity in Scotland offers paid job training – you’ll get paid to carry out work improving your community while learning new skills to support you into a job.

Family hub

Our family hub in Drongan, Scotland is there to help support parents with affordable childcare activities to enable parents to go back to work to provide for their families.

To sign up to CRT Engage in England and access one to one support please click below

Five Towns

Horden

Meir

Priorities Covered:

Health

Almost one in ten people in coalfield communities are in poor health. We help people living in former coalfields to improve their health so they can get the most out of their lives.

Skills

Almost one in five people in coalfield communities are economically inactive. We work with those furthest from the labour market to give them the foundation level skills they need to create a brighter future.

Jobs

There are fewer local jobs based in coalfield communities. Our CRT Property subsidiary builds industrial units for SMEs to create the jobs needed in former coalfield communities and generates most of the funding for our work.

Our Partners

Scottish Government

The work of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust in Scotland is paid for with a grant from the Scottish Government.

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Together Active Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent

Together Active part funds one Community Connector in the CRT Engage team in Stoke-on-Trent.

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Meir Primary Care Network

Meir Primary Care Network funds two Health & Wellbeing coaches and one nutritionist in the CRT Engage team in Stoke-on-Trent.

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UK Shared Prosperity Fund / Wakefield Council

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund has been awarded by West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Wakefield Council to pay for a Nutritionist to operate in the Five Towns area of Wakefield.

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Drongan Grassroots

Drongan Grassroots is supporting the CRT Engage programme through the provision of childcare, a breakfast club and community garden.

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The Zone

The Zone is supporting the CRT Engage programme through the provision of childcare.

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Ochiltree Community Centre

Ochiltree Community Centre is supporting the CRT Engage programme by supporting our CRT Worx jobs programme.

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The Larder

The Larder supports our CRT Engage programme through their local family hub.

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Netherthird Initiative for Community Empowerment

Netherthird Initiative for Community Empowerment supports our CRT Engage programme through their local family hub.

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