Welcome to KEEP

KEEP is the short name for the Kent Equal Employability Partnership.

The project was part funded by the Equal programme of the European Union (part of the European Social Fund) and contributed over £1.75 million to a network of 15 private, public and voluntary organisations working across Kent.

Over the two-year period from May 2002-2004, KEEP partners helped to support almost 700 disabled or otherwise disadvantaged people of Kent to enter training and sustainable, long-term employment.

The project achieved its objectives by:

1. Providing training in social and employment related skills to those that needed them

2. Supporting people towards employment and continuing that support when they entered employment

3. Supporting the development of three "social firms", training and developing the workforce to enable the creation of commercially viable businesses in the future.

The work of KEEP continued under Action 3 of the Equal programme until 14th November 2005, where key messages from the project were delivered to partners at a local, regional, national and European level. It is hoped that the lessons learnt from this project will be useful for current and future projects in this field.

In these pages, you can find a wealth of information about the KEEP project. However, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us at keep@kent.ac.uk or tel 01227 827307.

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