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Minister visits ABLE and its Future Jobs Fund Trainees
Fish farming, joinery, and allotment gardening are among the job opportunities being taken up by young people from the Wakefield area thanks to ABLE and the Future Jobs Fund.
ABLE provides training and learning opportunities to young people. At the heart of this activity is a large scale fish farming operation, rearing tilapia (an edible fish), sturgeon, ornamental and edible carp and catfish on a commercial basis. Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, visited the ABLE project at its Caldervale site on 19th March to meet some of the young people working there.
Aaron Coe, 20, from Pontefract who is working on the fish farm, said:
“I’ve been working here since December and I’m really glad I got this job. I’d been looking for quite a while when Jobcentre Plus told me about this one. They helped me improve my interview skills and I got it. I’m now learning about fish breeding and fish mongering, and I’m really enjoying it.”
Yvette Cooper said:
“It’s been great to hear about these young people’s positive experiences of working. The Future Jobs Fund is giving young people in Wakefield and across the country a chance of a job and their first step to a career.”
The site is a working partnership between the Green Business Network (GBN), Yorkshire Water, Wakefield District Primary Care Trust (WDPCT), and West Yorkshire Probation Service, for the ecological and economic regeneration of a 34 acre former landfill site at Caldervale sewage treatment works in Wakefield.
