Nottingham employment and skills specialists Working Links
are celebrating their tenth anniversary by revealing they’ve helped
more than 8,000 people into work over the past decade.
The organisation, which runs a host of
initiatives to help unemployed people back to work, currently has
two offices in the city and celebrated the milestone with an event
at the Trent FM Nottingham Arena in June.
Working Links delivers a number of return to
work programmes across Nottinghamshire, currently helping anyone
unemployed – including ex offenders, homeless people and those with
drug and alcohol issues – gain sustainable employment.
And in addition the welfare to work
specialists has successfully run employment skills based programmes
through the Skills Funding Agency (previously known as the Learning
and Skills Fund.) Through this scheme unemployed people have been
able to retrain into different career paths, often picking up
accredited qualifications along the way.
Celebrating their achievements with them at
the event was the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Councillor Brian
Grocock, Karen Masterson, Director of Marketing and Corporate
Responsibility and Mike Drewry, Contract Manager at the Department
for Work and Pensions.
Mike Lee, Regional Director for Working Links
said: “Working Links’ success has largely been down to treating
each jobseeker as an individual and by giving the one to one
support in finding a job that they need.
“We have gone from humble beginnings at the start to a large
operation in Nottingham with two very busy offices but our ethos
has always remained the same – ensuring that a job seeker finds the
job that they really want to do rather than have to do means that
they are more likely to stay in work.”