Partners
Fund, host, employ or partner
Offer funding, a venue, a paid role or specialist expertise, or commission or take part in SHAPE accessibility and co-design work. We match what you offer to people who want to earn.
Four ways to partner with us
Fund
Fund an intervention, support paid co-design, or fund the evaluation that measures what the routes achieve.
Host
Provide a venue, a trading pitch, or a work or testing setting. Space is one of the hardest barriers to solve.
Employ
Offer a genuine paid role with clear expectations, proper adjustments and a route to progress.
Partner
Refer people, contribute specialist expertise, add delivery capacity, or help us test and improve the model.
Commission or take part in SHAPE
Organisations can commission SHAPE, or take part in it: accessibility testing and lived-experience co-design, carried out by people with different abilities who are paid for skilled work. You get problems found early by the people who know them best.
What SHAPE can test
How an assignment works
- Barrier identified
- Change tested
- Evidence recorded
- Change adopted where it works
A barrier found before requirements are signed off is a change of plan. The same barrier found after launch is a rebuild. Read how SHAPE works.
We measure what happens next
We do not measure success by participation. We measure it by what becomes possible afterwards.
WORK
- Paid starts
- Hours
- Earnings
- Retention
- Progression
BUILD
- Customers
- Transactions
- Turnover
- Earned income
- How long trading lasts
SHAPE
- Paid assignments
- Barriers identified
- Changes tested
- Changes adopted
Accessibility
- Barrier identified
- Adjustment tested
- Cost
- Whether it worked
- Whether it is still in use, where that applies
Every result we publish comes with the method behind it and the limits of what it shows, and we name partners with their agreement.
Where opportunities are developed
POSSIQUE is an initiative of IT’S POSSIBLE NOW CIC. Through a POSSIQUE mobile retail unit, a person trades Gazian Water with real customers and earns income. Nuriqa, external employers and people’s own enterprises are the other routes to real work.
Where we are now
IT’S POSSIBLE NOW is at an early stage. This is what exists today, what we are developing, and how we will measure whether it works. Each item shows its status and when we last checked it.
What exists
What is set up and working today. Reviewed .
The Community Interest Company
Registered
IT’S POSSIBLE NOW COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY is registered at Companies House. It runs this website and the routes and programme below.
Three earning routes for adults
Registration open
BUILD (your own enterprise), WORK (paid employment) and SHAPE (paid co-design and testing). Adults can register interest today; each opportunity depends on fit and on the partners and funding in place.
The NEET to OPPORTUNITY programme design
Designed
A programme for young people with six pathways: LEARN, BUILD, WORK, EARN, SHAPE and ENJOY SUCCESS. The design is published. The pilot is proposed, and funding, partners and delivery are agreed before it starts.
The Youth Voice hub
Published
A public part of this website where young people can share views, see what was decided and read about the proposed youth panel.
Open now: Have your say and youth panel registration.
Registration and records
In place
Registering interest gives you a reference number, and your details are stored securely. The IT’S POSSIBLE NOW team uses staff tools to review enquiries, publish decisions and run surveys.
Our Opportunity Network
Published
The initiatives, independent businesses and delivery organisations connected to IT’S POSSIBLE NOW, with what each one is and how it relates to us.
The Nuriqa design and operating model
Designed
How Nuriqa, a digital retail, reuse and fulfilment business, can offer accessible practical work such as photography, listings and packing.
The Difability recognition approach
Published
How an organisation is recognised for changes it has made, tested and kept in use.
What we are developing
Each item shows the stage it has reached. Reviewed .
Pilot partnerships
Approached
Three organisations have been approached about the proposed pilot. No partnership is agreed.
Referral routes
In development
How schools, colleges and services refer young people. Eligibility and referral rules are agreed when the pilot is approved.
Employer opportunities
In development
Paid roles with employers, with reasonable adjustments agreed before anyone starts.
The Mobile Retail Unit specification
In development
What a POSSIQUE mobile retail unit carries, how it is made accessible, and how a person would trade from it. Access to units and stock is arranged before anyone trades.
Possible delivery premises
In development
Accessible places to deliver the programme. No premises are agreed.
Delivery capacity
In development
The people and partners needed to run the pilot, arranged with its funding.
Detailed evaluation arrangements
In development
How results are collected, checked and reported, including who reviews the evidence.
How we will measure progress
No figures published
What we will count once people take part. We publish a figure only when there is evidence behind it, with the method and its limits.
Paid employment
Paid starts, hours and progression in work.
Earnings
What people earn from employment and from their own enterprise.
Retention
Whether people stay in work and keep trading over time.
Sustained trading
Customers, transactions, turnover and how long trading lasts.
Participation
Who takes part in the programme and in Youth Voice, and which pathways they choose.
Cost-effectiveness
What support cost, set against what changed.
Employer adoption
Whether employers keep the changes that were tested and worked.
Replication in other places
Whether the approach works outside Greater Manchester.
Recent progress
Something else to offer?
Tell us what you have: money, space, roles, expertise or reach. We will tell you where it would help.
Questions people ask
An employer can offer a genuine paid role with clear expectations, proper adjustments and a way to progress. Each role is agreed with the employer around the person, so there is no vacancy list. Employers can use the contact form and choose “I represent an employer”.
See the Employ option or go straight to the employer form.
A funder or council can fund an intervention, support paid co-design, or fund the evaluation that measures what the routes achieve. Every result we publish comes with the method behind it and the limits of what it shows. Use the contact form and choose “I represent a funder or council”.
See Fund or go straight to the funder form.
Yes. Hosting means providing a venue, a trading pitch, or a work or testing setting, and space is one of the hardest barriers to solve. Any arrangement is agreed individually and depends on readiness, fit, approval and funding. Use the contact form and choose “I can provide a venue or host opportunity”.
Yes. The Partner option is for organisations that refer people, contribute specialist expertise, add delivery capacity or help test and improve the model. Choose “I represent a community or delivery partner” on the contact form and tell us what you can offer, and we will reply to talk it through.
See Partner.
Yes. Organisations can commission SHAPE or take part in it: accessibility testing and lived-experience co-design by people who are paid for skilled work. SHAPE can test workplaces, recruitment, websites, technology, services, physical environments and communications, and each assignment runs from barrier identified to change adopted where it works.
Only with your agreement. IT’S POSSIBLE NOW names partners with their agreement, and every result it publishes comes with the method behind it and the limits of what it shows. We also will not pass the details you send to an employer, a funder, a council or any other organisation without asking you first.
See the partners page.