Services Directory
UK (Nationwide)
Remploy Employment Services
Remploy aims to transform the lives of disabled people and those experiencing complex barriers to work by providing sustainable employment opportunities. Through working with many leading employers and through their own businesses, they enable individuals to identify, develop and make the most of their abilities to enjoy rewarding and fulfilling work. Their wide range of employment services are tailored to the needs of employers and jobseekers, and employees experiencing long term sickness absence. Services include development, training, learning and rehabilitation to help individuals prepare for, gain and remain in sustainable work, whilst providing employers with the skilled staff they need to realise commercial benefits.
Area of operation: UK
Email address: margaret.barton@remploy.co.uk
Telephone number: 07776 245491
Website: www.remploy.co.uk
Submitted by: Margaret Barton, Regional Partner Development Manager - Scotland
Emplacement People
Emplacement People provides specialist career support for the over-50s. It offers career coaching, employment advice and recruitment services. Emplacement People uses life-experienced career coaches to empower customers and a specialist employer engagement team to sell the benefits of an age-diverse workforce to employers. Emplacement People helps the over-50s gain sustainable employment through the Work Programme and ESF funded programmes.
Area of operation: UK
Email address: hema.patel@emplacement.co.uk
Telephone number: 0845 094 8090
Website: www.emplacement.co.uk
Submitted by: Hema Patel, Learning, Development and Quality Manager
East of England
New Beginnings UK Ltd
New Beginnings UK Ltd provides life planning, career information advice and guidance, redundancy support and pre-retirement courses for individuals and groups. Linda Taylor of New Beginnings UK Ltd has experience in working with people of 50+, delivering a pilot project on behalf of Life Academy for DWP. In addition, New Beginnings UK Ltd has delivered courses to unemployed adults, career changers, and re-entrants to the Labour Market, helping to develop Covering Letters, CVs, Interview Questions and Techniques, Action Planning, and the value in Networking. New Beginnings UK Ltd has planned and delivered pre-retirement and mid-life courses covering generic money matters, transition and change, relationships, use of time, further work opportunities, and also has experience in providing IAG to adults.
Area of operation: Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire and London
Email address: info@new-beginnings-uk.co.uk
Telephone number: 07740 478802
Website: www.new-beginnings-uk.co.uk
Submitted by: Linda Taylor, Director
Workwise (Suffolk) Ltd
Workwise offers employment training, re-skilling and education alongside employability workshops. It also currently delivers FND.
Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Email address: workw@aol.com
Telephone number: 01284 755261
Website: www.workwiseuk.org
Submitted by: Valerie Beresford, CEO
MENTA
Provides free, impartial business advice and support to start up and growing businesses in Suffolk. MENTA also has business units available on easy in / out terms in Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich and holds networking lunches (some for women only) across Suffolk.
Location: Menta Business Centre, 5 Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP32 7AB
Email address: rosanne@menta.org.uk
Telephone number: 0800 085 5090
Website: www.menta.org.uk
Submitted by: Rosanne Kilbourn, WoMenta Development Manager
East Midlands
Peak Workforce Ltd
An online recruitment service specialising in promoting the benefits of a maturing workforce.
We are a newly set up online recruitment consultancy based in Derby that focus on the promotion of a maturing work force through our \'forty9ers\' scheme. We are passionate about getting mature workers back into work by advising employers on the qualities this work force can bring as well advising them on HR procedure at the recruitment/interview stage and the current law. From the mature worker/ candidate side we aim to get as many mature workers back into work and help them out with confidence coaching, CV and interview advice and employment law consultation.
Location: Derby, East Midlands
Email address: luca@peakworkforce.co.uk
Telephone number: 07415 697020
Website: www.peakworkforce.co.uk
Submitted by: Luca Angarano, Account Director
London
The Directory of Employment Services for the East and Southeast London City Strategy Pathfinder
The directory has been designed by Experian with the guidance of frontline advisers. This website enables advisers to search for appropriate services to support individuals back into work. It is a fully funded and well supported partnership website that contains the latest available information on publicly funded employment and related services in the five east London boroughs of Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.
50plus Employment Link
Supports the London ESF priority to improve employability and skills in London with specific focus on providing greater employment opportunities to excluded individuals in the community. This project equips individuals with the personal and occupational skils they need to access and compete effectively in the labour market..
Location: Haringey, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham
Email address: darren.nullatamby@cdc-net.co.uk
Telephone number: 07852 720103 / 0845 510 0104
Submitted by: Darren Nullatamby, National Business Sales Manager
A4e FND Camden
Flexible New Deal service provider working with the long-term unemployed , many with complex barriers to finding sustainable work.
Website: http://www.a4e.co.uk
Location: Camden, London
Email address: angelarichards@a4e.co.uk
Telephone number: 020 7482 9150
Submitted by: Angela Richards, Personal Adviser
A4e (Elephant & Castle)
Services provided: Training
Website: http://www.a4e.co.uk
Location: Elephant & Castle, London
Email address: cclaire@a4e.co.uk
Telephone number: 020 7091 1500
Submitted by: Christine Claire, Trainer
LionHeart in The Community
Lionheart in the The Community provides the following services: advocacy. social inclusion, welfare to work, outreach and accredited training. They are currently running a programme Chummy Chums, a new social inclusion group for adults with learning disabilities and mental health issues. They welcome anyone over 18. If you have any customers who might wish to join, please email or telephone using the contact details below.
Location: Brixton, London
Email address: info@litc.org
Telephone number: 020 3397 0303
Website: www.litc.org (currently under construction).
Submitted by Lionel Foy, Operations Manager, LionHeart in The Community
Open Age
The New Futures 50+ Employment Programme at Open Age supports 50+ unemployed clients in Kensington / Chelsea and neighbouring boroughs into work and training. We provide free, confidential one to one IAG, Work Clubs, Back to Work Seminars and Basic and Intermediate Computer Courses for Employment.
New Initiatives: We are also currently delivering on the REACH West London Programme, as sub-contractors with Ingeus, targeting 50+ people unemployed for 12 months or more and on health related benefits, e.g. Incapacity Benefit, Income Support and Employment Support Allowance, supporting them into training and work. We are delivering from local centres in Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham and planning coffee mornings in February where clients can speak to us informally about the current changes in benefits and the opportunities offered by REACH to work out solutions to barriers to training / employment. Please call us on 020 8964 1900 or e-mail us on reach@openage.org.uk for details of local dates/venues for coffee mornings or to refer individual clients to REACH.
Location: 1 Thorpe Close, London W10 5XL
Email address: mwaterman@openage.org.uk
Telephone number: 020 8964 1900
Website: www.openage.org.uk
Submitted by: Mary Waterman, Employment Co-ordinator / Adviser
North East
Resources NE Ltd
Resources NE provides IT practitioner (repair work) and IT user (administration) training for people on New Deal.
Location: North Shiels, Gateshead, South Shields, Hexham
Email address: dwatson@resourcesdev.co.uk
Telephone number: 0191 4695511
Website: www.resourcesdev.co.uk
Submitted by David Watson, Senior Employer Liaison
JHP Employability
Builds customers' skills and confidence to help them back to work. Assists a wide range of people from all backgrounds and ages - up to retirement. Have a team of employment solutions consultants.
Location: Sunderland
Email address: laura.tokell@jhpemployablity.com
Telephone number: 07800 594693
Website: www.jhpemployability.com
Submitted by: Laura Tokell, Employability Coach
North West
Starting Point
Starting Point is a place where people receive free information, advice and guidance on jobs, education and training in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. All of our services are completely free. We offer assistance and coaching to help them get a job, write a CV or start training. In some instances, we can also provide funding to help them get there. Our main office is in Hardshaw Street in the town centre, but no matter where people live in the Borough of St Helens, there will be a base nearby where they can see us if it is more convenient. Our bases include rooms in community centres, schools, libraries, children's centres and church halls. Starting Point is part of St Helens Chamber and is able to offer a number of additional services provided by the Chamber. This also gives us strong links with local employers. Starting Point is a member of St Helens Information Advice and Guidance Network and is Matrix accredited by the Guidance Accreditation Board.
We strive to deliver a friendly, flexible and professional service which is confidential, impartial and non-judgmental.
Location: St Helens
Email address: cathryn.barton@thestartingpoint.org
Telephone number: 01744 698800
Website: http://www.startingpoint.org
Submitted by: Cath Barton, Guidance Manager
South West
Cornwall Works
Provides all of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly's back to work support in one place, the Cornwall Works Hub, to make it easier for workless people and the organisations supporting them to find the right help in the right place at the right time. It brings people, organisations and funding together to help more people trial news services and new ways of delivering them. It ensures that Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly make the best use of all the programmes and services available. The Cornwall Works website is a resource for jobseekers, people looking for help to return to work, service providers and policy makers.
Area of operation: Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
Email address: info@cornwallworks.org.uk
Telephone number: 01872 355015
Website: www.cornwallworks.org.uk
Submitted by: Rob Buckley, Programme Manager, Cornwall Works 50+
Working Links
Runs a wide range of services across the country including community engagement, mentoring, employment support, training, health, housing and more. Their customers often face a wide range of complex barriers to progression in life and they work with hundreds of organisations, large and small, to help them help others.
Location: 7 Lower Bore Street, Bodmin, Cornwall PL31 2JR
Email address: billy.mackellar@workinglinks.co.uk
Telephone number: 08009179262
Website: www.workinglinks.co.uk
Submitted by: Billy Mackellar, Partnership and Provision Co-ordinator
Grey Hair Management
Based in Cheltenham but operates across the UK. GHM helps senior professionals find employment through coaching, mentoring and personal-touch networking. If they are having difficulty articulating their value and currency to a prospective employer or having little success in getting interviews, or just not winning the job, it may not just be a ‘50+' issue. The question is whether they have all the tools necessary to get a job in the 2010 marketplace, where the type of CV they may have written 15 years ago may go straight into the rejects pile. The "experienced" executive needs the tools to get out and promote themselves and which GHM provide with a mixture of very practical help but also without apology a dose of tough love.
Location: Maxet House, Lansdown Business Park, Gloucester Road, Cheltenham GL51 8PL
Email address: paul.kelly@greyhairmanagement.com
Telephone number: 01242 210212
Website: www.greyhairmanagement.com
Submitted by: Paul Kelly, Managing Director
Outset Torbay
Outset Torbay is a free intensive business start-up support programme available to help people aged 50+ in Torbay, and other groups disadvantaged in business, into self-employment. Funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Torbay Development Agency, they offer free flexible one-to-one advice, coaching, and practical workshops in venues across Torbay. They support local people through the first stages of a business idea through to planning and launching, and up to 18 months after the business starts.
Location: Torbay, Devon
Email address: info@outsettorbay.co.uk
Telephone number: 0800 032 2905
Website: www.outsettorbay.co.uk
Submitted by: Claire Landricome, Marketing Manager
Spinnaker Associates
Offers support for newly unemployed professionals in the form of a free of charge work club endorsed by, but independent of, the Jobcentre Plus network.. See the website for more details. The Work Club runs from 11.00 - 13:00 every Monday. The majority of participants are aged 40+. Operates fluidly in terms of content and what is discussed on the day but one to one advice is available on CVs, the various job search avenues and interview skills and preparation. The group is very participative and one of the greatest benefits is the peer networking and support offered through the group.
Location: Clevedon and Bristol environs
Email address: nicola@spinnakerassociates.co.uk
Telephone number: 01275 844856
Website: www.spinnakerassociates.co.uk
Submitted by: Nicola Jones, Founder
Four Reasons Personal Development Training
Provides Life Skills training. Four Reasons PDT offers training courses for the 50+ in the fields of Confidence Building, Employability, Motivation, Self Development and Loss. These courses can be offered indivdually or in groups.
Area of operation: South West
Email address: cynthiagiddings@talktalk.net
Telephone number: 01278 783 679
Submitted by: Cynthia Giddings, Director
Yorkshire and Humber
Pertemps People Development Group
Works in partnership with Jobcentre Plus and the Department of Work and Pensions to support the Government's Welfare Reform plans - with a number of programmes funded by the European Social Fund (ESF), which aims to help unemployed people find long-term, sustained employment. PPDG delivers the ESF Flexible Routways programme in the Marches area, offering a uniquely individual service, providing a combination of one-to-one support and short training modules to aid progression into sustainable employment. We deliver a range of expert provision, from updating CVs and preparation for interview to advice about benefits and the travel, clothing and childcare costs customers may be entitled to help them move into work. PPDG also provide access to employment training and intensive job focused support, building self confidence and allowing customers to realise their potential.
Location: Penthouse Suite, 37/43 Shirethorn House, Prospect Street, Hull HU2 8PX
Email address: teresa.samuels@ppdg.co.uk
Telephone number: 01482 730140
Website: www.ppdg.co.uk
Submitted by: Teresa Samuels, Site Manager
Jobsteps Employment Services Ltd
Provides back to work support and guidance for anyone facing barriers into work, including for people aged 50+.
Location: South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, East Yorkshire
Email address: info@jobsteps.org
Website: www.jobsteps.org
Submitted by: Jenni Sayer, Development Consultant
Just Education and Training Ltd
Just Education and Training Ltd was formed to reach disadvantaged groups and individuals to offer a holistic aproach to enable them to gain greater social inclusion, reduce indebtedness and to get people one step closer to the job market through education and training. The organisation operates nationally as well as in Yorkshire and Humber.
Location: Yorkshire and Humber
Email address: laughton59@aol.com
Telephone number: 01709 815101 or 07895 387881
Website: www.justjet.org (currently under construction)
Submitted by: Michael Laughton, Director
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