CJ hadn’t enjoyed school, struggled in college, and lacked the experience, qualifications, and confidence he needed to secure a job.

Through Training for Work, CJ was able to gain practical qualifications and work experience in a warehouse.

Thanks to his hard work and commitment, CJ was then selected to take part in our Drivers Employability Training Scheme, working with our in-house driving instructor to pass his theory and practical driving tests.

CJ also volunteered in our FareShare warehouse twice a week.

With his new experience, qualifications, and confidence, CJ successfully secured a full-time job with Damada Group.

Dylan had finished college and didn’t have a clear next step when he started Training for Work.

To increase his confidence and improve his social skills, Dylan pushed himself to take part in different team building activities, and found work experience on the warehouse floor an easy environment to build relationships with other young people on the course.

Staff trained Dylan to use warehouse equipment, like electric pallet jacks, as practical skills to add to his CV.

After support to write a new CV, as well as mock interview practice, Dylan successfully applied for a Front of House role at Nando’s.  After only four weeks in the job, Dylan’s role has been made permanent, and he was made Employee of the Month!

Training for Work is part of an ambitious new employability training programme, All in Glasgow.

All in Glasgow brings together 17 charity partners to provide specialist support to 1,500 people facing challenging times to gain qualifications and opportunities that lead to long-term employment.

Scotland’s biggest third sector consortium, All in Glasgow supports people into work. The service includes three streams:

• Training for Work is for people looking for work and can also support those in work who are at risk of redundancy. The person may be disengaged from education or mainstream services, have a disability or mental health condition, have caring responsibilities, or be impacted by poverty. This is the stream that Move On delivers.
• Progress for Parents is a service specifically designed to help and support disabled parents who have children under 16 and who are not currently engaged with employment services. Find out more.
• Supported Employment is delivered exclusively by Enable Works, who work with employers to gain a better understanding of issues affecting disabled people, building their capacity to recruit from all sections of the community. Find out more.

The multi-charity partnership will ensure that those accessing any service can be signposted to another, more appropriate avenue without having to start the application process again or repeat a difficult-to-tell background story.