The Last Mile

The Equal Last Mile Development Partnership was part-funded by the European Social Fund under the Equal Community Initiative Programme. The CIQ Agency-initiated South Yorkshire partnership was one of nine English partner organisations and three transnational in Berlin, Helsinki and Bologna who worked towards helping talented people into work in the cultural and creative industries who have difficulty in being integrated because of barriers and discrimination.

The programme started in May 2005 and ended in December 2007. The aim was to contribute to the process of promoting equality and diversity in the workplace, including the testing of support mechanisms to help secure pathways into employment for individuals from traditionally under-represented groups such as young people, disabled people, women and people from working class and black and minority ethnic backgrounds.