Employment
We help people develop their confidence, skills and experience in order to help them find work and to contribute to the regeneration of their own neighbourhoods. Our training programmes are focused on those people who find it hardest to get work. Some need help with basic skills such as reading and writing while others are ex-offenders or have spent many years receiving incapacity benefit. We work closely with Jobcentre Plus, local colleges, businesses and other bodies such as housing associations and the NHS to ensure that the training we offer delivers the skills that employers need. Many Groundwork Trusts run programmes that pay local unemployed people a wage while they work on a wide range of activities from renovating run-down houses to repairing and recycling white goods. Increasingly these services are being offered through social enterprises, providing permanent jobs and contributing to the success of local economies.
Increasing Employability in the South East - Case Study
Blue Sky
Blue Sky is an innovative not-for-profit social enterprise, instigated by Groundwork Thames Valley, that offers ex-offenders a proper job with a proper company.
Whilst 75% of people leaving prison have no job to go to, Blue Sky takes on its employees on 6 month Intermediate Labour Market Contracts.The aim is to ensure that our staff develop the skills to prosper in full-time jobs. This has great benefits for both our employees, and the communities in which they resettle, as well as to the environment.
Home office statistics show that those in permanent employment are up to 50% less likely to re-offend.
Groundwork South East
18-21 Morley Street
London
SE1 7QZ
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southeastregion@ groundwork.org.uk |