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After a successful pilot scheme, a partnership between British Gas and the charity Global Action Plan hopes to create 1,000 new jobs for young people in Britain over the next three years.

The new jobs in the green sector are expected to pay around £20,000 for the young people aged between 17 and 25 who successfully complete the course and secure a role at British Gas.

In 2012, the environmental charity and the energy giant teamed up with management consultancy Accenture and recruited 27 young out-of-work job seekers into a pilot version of the scheme. 17 of the 27 young people went on into full time jobs after completing the scheme.

Following the triumph of the initial scheme, Global Action Plan has now launched the full scheme, called Transform, and will now work with Jobcentre Plus to find 1,400 candidates for its sustainability training course. The initial course spans five days and all of the under 26s who complete it will receive a BTEC qualification.

British Gas has also pledged to interview anyone who successfully completes the Global Action Plan training scheme and expects to offer around a thousand jobs before the end of 2015.

Speaking of his hopes that other businesses and charities could take a lead from their partnership with British Gas and create hundreds more jobs for young people, Trewin Restorick, chief executive of Global Action Plan, said: “Our job creation scheme is highly cost effective. Rather than take more money from the public purse, we can work with business to find the skills they need. It's a much more impactful and liberating approach. I hope other charities will follow us.”

Mr Restorick estimates that similar partnerships could create as many as 5,000 “green” jobs for young people over the next three years. Global Action Plan hopes that many new environmentally-friendly jobs could be created this way in the hotel sector and the waste management industry.

Jeevan Dhillon, one of the young people who secured a job as a tenant liaison officer at British Gas,via the initial pilot scheme last year said: “The course was a confidence booster and it got me back in the mood for work. It feels fantastic to be in a job and I feel really good about myself.”

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