New Government Kickstarter everything you need to know
Kickstart Scheme
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create job placements for 16 to 24-year-olds on Universal Credit.
Kickstart Scheme
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create job placements for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.
If you need the full details straight fro the government line by line
Registering your interest link
Back when Tony Blair was in power the government had a scheme called back young Britain. The opticians that I used to own took on six young people and it really changed everything in a positive way I’d been used to taking on work experience students and apprentices but these guys were taken on on the premise that there would be wages covered for six months and that would help with my marketing and operations
the government knew scheme is called Kickstarter the one challenge is it’s really aimed at larger businesses because you need to apply for no less than 30 people so more motivation to get involved this time around was to help others to connect to the funds and the grant.
if you are a small business and would like to apply for the Kickstarter scheme make sure that you go through this checklist before applying
have you ever been bankrupt?
Do you have a County Court judgment against you
can you morally say that you will educate these young people so they are in a better position after six months to be more employable?
If the answer is yes then please send me an email at gary@lovingsocialmedia.com and I’ll help you to connect into the funds and answer any questions you may have
Want to create job placements for young people within your business? Check if you can apply for a #grant through the Kickstart Scheme
- f you are creating a minimum of 30 job placements you can apply here as an individual business
- If you are unable to offer this many job placements, you can partner with other organisations to reach a minimum of 30. The representative applying for group of organisations can get £300 of funding to support the administrative costs of bringing them together.
Get #funding to help your business & support young people to develop key skills.

If you’re creating fewer than 30 job placements, we can act on your behalf to apply for Kickstart Scheme grants and £1500 employer incentives! Email kickstart@thesourceacademy.co.uk
Kickstarter 4 Scheme Info & Form example should take around 10 min to fill in
What you’ll get
£1,500 per job placement
You’ll get £1,500 funding per job placement. This is for setup costs and to support the young person to develop their employability skills. If you get someone else to do some of this for you, such as your Kickstart gateway, you’ll have to agree on how you will share this money.
Job placement criteria
The job placements created with Kickstart Scheme funding must be new jobs.
The job placements must not:
- replace existing or planned vacancies
- cause existing employees, apprentices or contractors to lose work or reduce their working hours
The job placements must:
- be a minimum of 25 hours per week, for 6 months
- pay at least the National Minimum Wage or the National Living Wage for the employee’s age group
- only require basic training
We have created over 100 placements so far
These are examples of roles so far!
ADMIN ASSISTANT
MARKETING
WAREHOUSE OPERATIVE
COMPUTER OPERATIVE
SALES ADMINISTRATOR
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
SALES
VIDEO/FILMING EDITOR
LANDING PAGE BUILDER/SOFTWARE
CLEANER
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGING
GRAPHIC DESIGN
SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS
TELESALES
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGERS
RECEPTIONIST
TRAINEE LANDSCAPER
MULTI TRADES APPRENTICE
PLUMBERS HELPER/ADMINISTRATOR
WAREHOUSE ASSISTANT
TRAINEE MARKETING ASSISTANT
LETTINGS NEGOTIATOR
COPYWRITING
DIGITAL MARKETING
LABOURER
TECHNICAL SERVICES
ENGINEERING CONSULTANCY
If you need any more information please call Garry Kousoulou 07958510183
Love social media, Optician, Work Experience Mentor, Entrepreneur
Honors & Awards — Beta tester for twitter Spaces 2021 Best Social Media in the world.
2020Shortlisted for Digital/e-Commerce Business of the Year. 14 Hour Global seminar 50,000+ Views May 2020. Most inspiring business person of the year 2020 finalist. OPENING SANTANDER BANK 2019. Special service to the borough Enfield. 2019 Social Media Marketer of the year. 2018 Winner of best Greek business in the U.K. 2018 Ask the expert 100% optical Vision-X Opticare Conference. Keynote Speaker. 2014 The Worlds First CET on social media. 2017 Judge at the 2013 Enfield Business Awards Judge of the national optician’s awards. 2013 – Dispensing Optician of the Year Finalists. 2008 Final Best work experience place to work UK SME . 2007 Worlds first Optician on Twitter and Facebook 2005 Whoever has read this email I am very much looking forward to working with you, Creating outstanding work, and achieving great things together. Bring on 2021.
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Always embracing digital disruption – Special interest in changes in consumer behavior, how will they impact on the business
Loving social media was born from a love of digital communication and the passion for guerrilla marketing over 15 years ago I discovered Myspace and then Facebook. They did wonders for my optical business in then evolved for me doing friends social media then hiring an apprentice her salary was covered for all the friends and colleagues social media. In 2019 the opticians (Goodlooking Optics) that I owned merged with another optician the merge didn’t go perfectly and there was a conflict so I decided to completely devote myself to love social media. in January of 2019 I sold all the customers of loving social media in preparation for this big merge which I then regretted. today loving social media has 24 clients a pure passion of getting your website optimised the Page 1 with a joined up approach using social PPC And SEO Like all self-respecting digital companies, we know that we are always learning because things are always changing!