• Welcome to New Era Enterprises

    STOP PRESS!!!!!  WE NOW HAVE A NEW TELEPHONE NUMBER 01282 435302.

     

    New Era Enterprises is a dynamic, co-operatively run local business based in Burnley. We work to promote community development, employment prospects and offer training for the people of Lancashire, and specifically Burnley, Pendle, Hyndburn & Rossendale. For more about our work, see our projects and training.

    New Era Does it again!

    For the Second time New Era has passed the Matrix Standard in December 2009 here are some of the comments made in the report

    “Feedback from New Deal clients is very positive about the support they receive and the opportunities to move into jobs through New Era.”

    “New Era provides a very supportive environment for its …clients…and for learners working towards NVQs. This supportive environment was clearly welcomed by candidates because it gave them the confidence to make their own decisions."

    Please have a look at our Matrix Assessment report in full here

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • About us

    New Era is a community business that promotes a wide range of community based regeneration and economic development projects, primarily in and around East Lancashire.

    Our aim is to provide a service, which supports the growth of skills and networks so that people are able to initiate and participate in their own and their community's development. This is achieved by working at a neighbourhood level, within a vision of equal opportunity and sustainability.

    New Era manages varied community development, training and employment projects, and more significantly, enables local residents to successfully develop and manage their own.

  • Childcare

    An overview of the childcare services provided by New Era Enterprises.

    • New Era Childcare

      New Era Childcare can supply you with trained childcare professionals, all of whom are fully qualified to a minimum of NNEB, BTEC or NVQ Level 2/3 in Childcare.

    • The Play Centre Pre-School

      Do you need time out from your 2 - 5 year old?

      Why not leave your child with qualified staff in our OFSTED 'Good' registered Pre-school?

      Monday to Friday 9.00am - 12.00pm and

      Mon, Wed, Thur, Fri 1.00pm - 4.00pm at a cost of only £5.00 per session located at

      Sion Baptist Church,

      Church Street,

      Burnley,

      BB11 2DW

      Tel 01282 435302 or 07727 713690

      Why not try our Drop and Shop Creche and have some time for yourself? £2.50 per hour (booking not always necessary)
  • Contact us

    If you would like to contact us you can telephone, fax, mail or e-mail us. For childcare, project and service enquires please ask for the appropriate key worker.

    • Contact Childcare
      If you would like to contact us you can telephone, fax, mail or e-mail us. For childcare, project and service enquires please ask for the appropriate key worker.
    • Contact Projects
      If you would like to contact us you can telephone, fax, mail or e-mail us. For childcare, project and service enquires please ask for the appropriate key worker.
    • Contact Services
      If you would like to contact us you can telephone, fax, mail or e-mail us. For childcare, project and service enquires please ask for the appropriate key worker.
    • Contact Training
      If you would like to contact us you can telephone, fax, mail or e-mail us. For childcare, project and service enquires please ask for the appropriate key worker.
    • Contact Website
      If you would like to contact us you can telephone, fax, mail or e-mail us. For childcare, project and service enquires please ask for the appropriate key worker.
  • Location

    New Era Enterprises Ltd
    St James House, St James's Row, Burnley
    BB11 1DR
    Tel: 01282 435302

  • Projects

    Projects managed by New Era Enterprises.

     

     New Beginnings

    The New Beginnings project was successful in its application to the Big Lottery and was granted funding for the next 3 years commencing 1st July 2008. This is the continuation and expansion of an existing project to help homeless people or people at risk of becoming homeless in Burnley secure or retain their homes and improve their lifestyles. The project will provide a package of intensive support helping the beneficiaries to address all aspects of their lives in parallel including lifestyle, career and health issues through individual plans. The beneficiaries experience barriers in their lives including substance and alcohol misuse, lack of skills and financial management, homelessness, mental health problems and unemployment.

    Thinking About Setting up or growing your community business? We can help!

    Whether you are looking to take your first steps to start a businmess or you've got a business that you are looking to grow, No Limits is the gateway to all the information, advice and practical support you need to make it happen.

    • New Beginnings

      The aim of New Beginnings is to provide unique alternative opportunities for individuals who experience a wide range of difficulties in their life who wish to adopt a more positive lifestyle and in turn work towards addressing key issues in their life.

    • No Limits

      Thinking About Setting up or growing your community business? We can help!

      Whether you are looking to take your first steps to start a businmess or you've got a business that you are looking to grow, No Limits is the gateway to all the information, advice and practical support you need to make it happen.

      No Limits can offer specialist business advice, grant and loans, hands on support, local enterprise havens, community enterprise support and can provide extra support for women looking to start a business. For further information on how No Loimits can help a business please call 0800 612 2029 or visit

      http://www.no-limits.org.uk

       

       

  • Publications

    New Era occasionally makes publications and other files available over the world wide web, here you will find those Publications.

  • Other Services
    Services managed by New Era Enterprises.
    • Help Direct at New Era

      Help Direct at New Era

      You can access the help direct service in person by calling in at New Era Enterprises new office in Burnley. Help Direct is a service for adults (18+) in Lancashire, to get the practical support, guidance and/or information you need to get the most out of life you can call "help direct" on 0303 333 1111

    • Administrative support

      New Era offers administrative support according to your groups' needs. We can offer support with organising committee meetings, agendas, minutes, AGM organisation, producing databases, mailshots to members/others etc.

    • CRB Disclosure

      New Era is a registered umbrella organisation for CRB Disclosures. Contact us to find out how you can benefit from this service.

    • Financial and accounting support

      New Era offers financial and accounting support - e.g. keeping income and expenditure accounts, producing project quarterly and final returns, setting up petty cash systems, supporting projects to keep up with their financial systems, and producing annual accounts.

    • Practical Parenting in the Home

      Practical Parenting in the Home provides a high level 'hands on' practical of support over a number of weeks or months to a small number of individual families experiencing multiple difficulties.

      Families must be referred to the project by a recognised agency working with them.

      However Practical Parenting is unable to take further referrals under the SRB/Urban II funding. Agencies wishing to purchase the service on a spot contract basis should contact New Era for further information

    • Project monitoring

      New Era offers a Project Monitoring service - most funded projects need to monitor a variety of outputs - e.g. attendees at sessions etc - we can design monitoring systems to suit the records that groups have to keep, and can deal with the quarterly and final returns for projects.

    • Recruitment for staff

      New Era offers a Recruitment for staff service, assisting you with all the policies and procedures that go with becoming an employer - contracts, Health and Safety, employment rights etc

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    An index of pages on this website

  • Training
    Training managed by New Era Enterprises.
    • Apprenticeships in Childcare and Playwork

      Could your childcare organisation benefit from an apprentice? 

      New Era Enterprises can provide training for 16 - 18 year olds completing an apprenticeship in Childcare and Playwork.

      We can provide and fund the necessary academic training to ensure that your apprentice recieves all the relevant Qualifications.  Your apprentice would recieve specific training to suit the role you want them to play as an individual within your childcare provision.  All costs would be covered with the exception of your apprentice's wage (minimum £95 per week from August).  Your apprentice's time would be split between your childcare provision and receiving training from New Era's highly qualified childcare team.

       Candidates who successfully complete an Apprenticeship will recieve:

       

      An NVQ in Childcare or Playwork at level 2 or 3

      Key Skills in English and Maths

      A Technical certificate in Children's Care Learning and Development

      A Paediatric First Aid Qualification

       

       If you require further information on New Era's apprenticeships programmes, please contact us on 01282 435302 or e-mail at mail@newera-burnley.co.uk

       

    • Childcare

      Childcare training courses

      • Level 1 Childcare
        level 1 Childcare training courses
        • Level 1 Effective Parenting
          The NCFE Level 1 National Award in Effective Parenting is designed to enable parents or carers to develop the knowledge and understanding necessary for developing healthy and fulfilling relationships with their children. By contributing to personal development, the qualification acts as a gateway to further education or training.
        • Level 1 Working with Children
          The Level 1 National Award in Working with Children is a joint development between NCFE and Playgroup Network. It is designed as an introductory award for those interested in beginning a career in childcare.
      • Level 2 Childcare
        Level 2 Childcare training courses
      • Level 3 Childcare
        Level 3 Childcare training courses
        • Level 3 Children's Care, Learning & Development
          This course is for people working under supervision in face-to-face roles with children, young people and families, either supervising others or working unsupervised.
        • CACHE Level 3 Certificate in Early Years Foundation Stage Practice
          CACHE Level 3 Certificate in Early Years Foundation Stage Practice has been designed to update existing experience so that practitioners are competent to deliver the Government's Early Years Foundation Stage.
        • Level 3 Diploma in Home-based Childcare
          Supports home-based childcare practitioners to offer a cohesive, effective childcare service for families seeking home-based care and education for their children.
        • Level 3 Playwork
          NVQ Level 3 in Playwork is for those who already have the NVQ Level 2 or have significant experience in a play setting. You need to be skilled in a wide range of complex tasks and demonstrate that you are capable of supervising others.
    • Continuous Professional Development

       

      Continuous Professional Development is particularly important to those who work with children and it is becoming increasingly a requirement if they wish to retain their professional status.  New Era Enterprises this week launched a new service which will help childcare workers and teachers to keep up their skills and meet the requirements of their professional associations.

       

      Each of the series of workshops covers a different topic from working with children with special needs, using multicultural resources in play to keeping up with the requirements of the new Early Years Foundation Stage standards and there are many more from which to choose.

       

      Workshops can be delivered flexibly at times to suit the participants and in any suitable venue. They usually last for two and a half hours and participants receive a certificate which verifies the time spent and learning undertaken.

       

      The service was warmly welcomed by a number of managers of pre-school and out of school settings when it was launched at Aintree racecourse this week and those who have experienced New Era’s courses in the past are already looking forward to these workshops.

       

      ‘New Era training is always thought provoking’ said a New Era student this week, ‘I learn a lot and they are interesting and fun too. I feel refreshed at the end of our evening sessions even though I have arrived tired after a hard day working with children’’

       

       

       

    • Life & Work

      Life & Work training courses

      • Entry Level life and work
        Browse our entry level life and work training
        • Entry Level Confidence Building & Problems Solving
          This course is an excellent tool for individuals who wish to improve their problem solving skills.
        • Entry Level Making Progress
          The NCFE Entry Level Certificate in Making Progress is suitable for adults and young people wishing to improve their skills in order to progress to NQF Level 1 qualifications and who wish to develop their skills in a context relevant to themselves.
        • Entry Level Working Together
          The NCFE Entry Level Certificate in Working Together is suitable for adults and young people wishing to improve their skills in order to progress to NQF Level 1 qualifications and who wish to develop their skills in a context relevant to themselves.
      • Level 1 Life and Work
        Browse our level 1 life and work training
        • Level 1 Employment Skills
          This course will benefit a wide range of people wanting to improve their job prospects.
        • Level 1 Personal Skills Development
          Level 1 Personal Skills Development is suitable for adults and young people wishing to improve their essential, transferable skills in order to progress to NQF Entry Level Awards, and for those below Entry Level who wish to develop their personal skills in a context relevant to themselves.
      • Level 2 Life and Work
        Browse our level 2 life and work training
        • Level 2 Employment Skills
          Level 2 Employment Skills aims to improve communication skills and personal effectiveness, develop and enhance skills required for the working environment and develop candidates' confidence and motivation for employment.
      • Level 3 Life and Work
        Browse our level 3 life and work training
        • Level 3 Personal Effectiveness at Work
          This course is ideal for almost anyone in employment who wishes to increase their effectiveness at work; it is also accessible to those who are associated with organisations on a social or voluntary basis. It is particularly suited to those who are new to supervisory or management roles.
    • New Era Enterprises Training and Assessment Centre

      New Era Enterprises Training and Assessment Centre (NEETAC) is a community based training centre approved to accredit awards by NCFE and CACHE (Council for Awards in Children's Care and Education).

    • Train to Gain

      Are you interested in a career in Childcare?

      The Train to Gain programme is designed to help employers improve their productivity by making sure their employees have the right skills to do the best job.

      New Era Train to Gain is offering NVQ qualifications at levels 2 and 3 in Childcare/playwork. 

      People in employment and volunteers are eligible.  

      New Era has been awarded "excellent" as an approved centre for the delivery of CACHE courses.

      Flexible start date to suit the learner and employer. Designed to meet the learner's needs and workshop based learning.

      For further information please contact us on 01282 435302 or e-mail at mail@newerra-burnley.co.uk