We’re better together
WeConnect is a collaborative community open to all individuals and organisations looking to partner with Fedcap in delivering person-centred excellence to customers across the Health, Employability, Education and Learning, and Economic Development spheres.
Membership of the community gives you access to:
- Collaborative approaches to upcoming commissioning, bringing together local knowledge and expertise to co-design propositions that deliver for commissioners and customers
- Community-produced and expert-led training and development on key knowledge/skills including insights from our international group
- Hyper-local networking and good practice sharing to build community capacity, promote services and join up the dots of local provision
- Access to local labour market information and other relevant data
- Employer engagement coordination to maximise impact for the whole community to benefit from job vacancies suited to customers’ preferences
- Policy and practice updates keeping the community informed about current and future trends on national and local government thinking
Our offer to partners
As a transformative partner we are keen to ensure the community is accessible to specialist hyper-local organisations who will bring essential knowledge and experience but can be limited by scale. Our community is driven by a commitment to collaboration over duplication, supporting the membership to unlock new partnerships both with us and each other.
Our future pipeline
We recognise that transparency makes for better partnerships and commit to keeping our membership aware of new opportunities that are important to us. This page will be regularly updated below to highlight these opportunities.
Employability Support Wales
Fedcap Employment is exploring a bid to deliver the Welsh Government’s Employability Support Programme (ESP) in partnership with Elite Supported Employment. Elite has over 30 years’ experience delivering employability and supported employment services across Wales, and brings locally embedded delivery capability that connects employment support to education pathways and wider economic participation.
We are seeking to engage with organisations who may be interested in working alongside us as part of a collaborative regional delivery partnership.
The ESP programme is expected to initially support young people aged up to 24 who are not currently in education, employment or training, with the potential for additional cohorts, including individuals experiencing short-term and long-term unemployment to be introduced over time. Delivery will be commissioned on a regional basis and is intended to reflect local labour market need, community context and place-based service design.
Ministry of Justice Community Support
The Ministry of Justice is launching community support for men in prison or the community across various regions in England and Wales. These services aim to address rehabilitative needs, helping prevent individuals from re-offending, and providing a combined, whole-person, individualised service. The service will comprise building supportive relationships; connecting to community activities such as volunteering, sports and leisure; assisting with recovery from drug, alcohol, and gambling issues; and achieving sustainable outcomes in housing, employment, and financial management.
Emphasis will be placed on partnerships with criminal justice services, health and addiction services, local authorities, housing providers, employment services, and third-sector organisations. The services will replace existing separate pathway services and aim to support a diverse range of individual needs and characteristics, encouraging involvement from SMEs and VCSE organisations through consortia or supply chains.
Designed to support men both in prison and as they transition back into the community, these services ensure continuous and seamless support. The project will launch in August 2025, with contracts awarded in October 2026 and services going live in March 2027.
If you’d like to part of the opportunity please fill in your expression of interest within the link below
Coming soon – Communities of Practice
We understand that our community members cross a broad spectrum of specialists and experts who want to drive excellence. We’re keen to develop Communities of Practice within our membership to facilitate knowledge sharing and bring together like-minded organisations to discuss current and future policy in their discipline. We are currently looking to start with:
- Supported Employment
- Employer Engagement
- Innovation in Tech
However, we know that our WeConnect membership will have some great ideas about what’s needed and so will be consulting with them to finalise and initiate this community offer.
Ready to work with us?
We’re looking to connect with strategic partners, suppliers and providers of specialist services who share our values.
Please provide us with your contact details and a member of our team will be in touch.