Organisations from Whitby, Scarborough and Filey have joined together to help boost jobs and careers with training and support for the community.

The Beat the Recession campaign has been created through a partnership of Scarborough Borough Council, Coast and Moors Voluntary Action, Job Centre Plus, North Yorkshire County Council and Sanctuary Housing. The Evening News is also backing the venture.

The campaign will include events at Scarborough Spa and in Whitby and Filey, and covers jobs and training, but also issues linked with problems caused by the recession such as financial and health matters.

The events will give people access to employers with existing or forthcoming vacancies.

In terms of jobs:

* One of the main partners in the campaign is Jobcentre Plus, a Government agency supporting people from welfare into work and helping employers fill their vacancies. Jobcentre Plus can also develop training and redeployment for groups of employees from specific industries.

* For anyone who has been made redundant, Jobcentre Plus can support you through online and telephone-based services: providing information about alternative jobs, matching you to known vacancies, helping you draw up a CV and your job skills, providing information about benefits and making claims.

In terms of training:

* Training providers will offer skills development to help people back into employment.
In a further boost to the scheme, the borough council is to launch a £1.4m three-year job match scheme to connect unemployed people to sustainable employment in Scarborough. Funding is provided by Yorkshire Forward and the European Regional Development Fund.

Matt Parsons, council regeneration officer, said: "Employer surveys have highlighted problems that firms have in recruiting people with the required skills and qualities, and that there are high concentrations of unemployment in the town.

"As a result, the council has launched Scarborough Job Match to ensure that employers have access to the skills they need and that individuals in Scarborough town and Eastfield have the opportunity to gain the skills needed to help them into employment or into better jobs."

* There are training schemes for people out of work across the borough and details will be given throughout the campaign.

In terms of support:

The campaign will connect people to organisations offering advice and support including money matters, housing, benefits health, drug and alcohol use.

Richard Weightman, of Coast and Moors Voluntary Action, said: "Helping people beat the recession is about more than keeping people in work and increasing training.

"It's about helping people meet whatever challenges come their way. That's why we work with and support organisations providing child care, disability support, women's aid, working with older people, housing support and even financial, health and personal advice."

At events across the borough in September organisations will display and promote their services, provide advice and run activity sessions:

* Filey Evron Centre 9 September
* Whitby Green Lane Centre 23 September
* Scarborough Spa complex 29 September.

There will also be an event in Eastfield in mid-September.
Ed Asquith, editor of the Evening News, said: "We are delighted your newspaper is playing a major role in helping people beat the effects of the recession. We hope that bringing together a partnership of organisations that provide all kinds of support will be of significant benefit to residents across the borough."

For further information contact Mr Parsons at the borough council on (01723) 232325 or Sharon Baxter at the newspaper on (01723) 383838.
Scarborough Borough Council, North Yorkshire County Council, Yorkshire Forward and the Department of Works and Pensions are sponsors of the campaign.