Multiply

Partnership

Open to new partners

Participants

Open to new participants

Location

York and North Yorkshire

Audience

Organisations and Employers able to support participants to develop skills in Maths

Deadline

Current delivery by end of March 2024

Multiply is the government’s new £560 million programme to help transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of adults across the UK and will be delivered through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

The funding is distributed across local councils and then allocated to providers to deliver various different activities to support individuals with their numeracy skills.

Better Connect have formed a partnership with local organisations routed within their communities to help individuals develop their skills in numeracy. We are also working with employers to highlight the benefit of developing numeracy skills within the workplace.

We recently held a launch event for Multiply, see the below video to find out more!

Why is Numeracy important?

Numeracy is the ability to understand and use maths in daily life, home, and work.  Whether that be improving household finances, helping children with homework, making more sense of the stats and facts in the media, or improving numeracy skills specific to your line of work.

People who improve their numeracy skills are more likely to be in employment, have higher wages and better wellbeing, and will be more able to progress to higher levels of free training to secure a skilled job in our economy.

Businesses who develop their employees’ numeracy skills can boost productivity, increase profits and improve employee retention.

The multiply programme was created to help adults improve their numeracy skills and gain a greater understanding of the impact that poor numeracy skills can have on their lives. 

How to get involved?

Better Connect is working with organisations across York and North Yorkshire that are routed within their local communities and able to offer support to individuals in numeracy. Numeracy is the ability to understand and use maths in daily life, home, and work.  Whether that be improving household finances, helping children with homework, making more sense of the stats and facts in the media, or improving numeracy skills specific to your line of work.

We are also working with employers to show how numeracy skills are used across different types of workplace. We will be holding events and inviting both employers and unemployed individuals to try and raise awareness of the importance of numeracy and give candidates the opportunity to meet employers that have vacancies that they are potentially struggling to fill due to the job requirements or skills gap from candidates.

If you are interested in delivering a project to support people develop their numeracy skills or an employer looking to get involved in these events please contact Christine Brass on [email protected]

We would also like to hear from stakeholders, councils or funders from other area’s such as West Yorkshire. We are keen to support with multiply programme wherever possible!

Meet The Team

News and Updates

Our Multiply Team Updates!

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  What have the team been up to? Our Multiply team have had an exciting few months managing Multiply and connecting with our wonderful partners. Formerly both part of our ATI team, Christine and Sophia have been keen to get stuck into a new venture and have a hand in making maths accessible. They’ve represented

Literacy Day- Our Team’s Favourite Books

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  In a reading slump? In honour of International Literacy Day, today we’re sharing some of our favourite books with you from across the Better Connect Team! Literacy is an important part of life & learning globally. This year’s theme for Literacy Day is ‘Promoting literacy for a world in transition: Building the foundation for sustainable

“It’s easy to get into debt – but hard to get out” – Multiply Participant Stories

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  A few weeks back, we had the pleasure of visiting Multiply keyworker CJ Allison and his participants Dan and David as they battled through some budgets, talked financial self-advocacy, and discussed self-employment tips and tricks. Multiply is the government’s new multi-million-pound programme to help transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of adults across

Multiply – Celebrating Year One!

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  On Friday 31st March we held an event at Priory Street in York to celebrate our first year of Multiply! You may be thinking.. but you’ve just launched this programme? Well our amazing partnership had only 3 months to deliver on their targets from the date we received the funding in December and we

Multiply – Joe’s top 3 money saving tips

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As part of Multiply, our team will be sharing some top tips around finance, household bills, budgeting and numeracy.. this time we hear from Joe with his top 3 money saving tips! I’ve felt extremely lucky during the cost of living crisis. Although some of my costs have certainly gone up, I’ve not been hit

Multiply – Hannah explains how she uses numeracy skills every day!

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  At school.. I hated maths. My brain didn’t understand numbers, algebra, fractions, percentages and because of that I would act out and end up not listening in class! (I know, naughty Hannah!)  I scraped a C at GCSE with the support of a maths tutor and many arguments with my parents and felt extremely

Our Finance Director Julie shares her top tips on Personal Budgeting!

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As part of Multiply, our team will be sharing some top tips around finance, household bills, budgeting and numeracy.. first up is Julie our Finance Director! Budgets are not just for business! When I talk to business owners one thing we cover is breakeven points. This is the amount of money they absolutely have to

Launching our new Multiply Programme

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  Multiply is the government’s new £560 million programme to help transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of adults across the UK and will be delivered through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The funding is distributed across local councils and then allocated to providers to deliver various different activities to support individuals with their