Skills Training & Employment

Trainees

Without people in meaningful work, communities cannot function. We help people to retrain, gain confidence and gain valuable work experience through supported employment. From structured volunteering to formal placements with employers, we help people move on a journey towards employment.

We operate different skills programmes in different places and deliver government work initiatives, but they are all about motivation and changing lives. Often our programmes are linked to improving the local environment or growing new skills for a greener economy.

People on a journey towards employment come to us for support, training courses and qualifications. We provide career and back to work advice and interview training, job search support and CV building.

We focus on supporting young people and ex-offenders who are not in education, employment and training into work. For more information click here.

Blue Sky Development & Regeneration

Location: South East Blue Sky Development & Regeneration is a social enterprise that helps ex-offenders move successfully into long-term employment.

Spark IT

Location: Kent Groundwork's Spark IT Training Centre operates from a local community building in Swanscombe, Kent, and since its opening in 2006 has offered a range of IT courses and employment and skills training to local people.

Future Jobs Fund

Location: Southampton One of the programmes that Groundwork delievers is the Governments Future Jobs Fund for people aged 18-25 who have been out of work for over six months.

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Location: Kent The programme has been operational since 2008, with participants securing employment as well as recieving support to assist them in the search for future employment.