Bath Communities Partnership
the future depends on what you do in the present
Genesis Woodworks Project
Genesis Trust
Funding: £30,000
Date of funding approved: February 2005
Date of project completion: March 2007
Project summary
The Lifeline Centre, which opened in July 2003, found that finding clients suitable work experience, training and employment was quite difficult. Our clients tend to have substance abuse and/or mental health problems, several are ex-offenders and they need a supporting environment that takes this into account but that offers them the opportunity back into the working world. Also other service providers in the city such as Drugs and Homelessness Initiative, Julian House, New Deal, Progress to Work etc also have difficulty in finding suitable work placement for their clients. Our Repair Workshop would help solve these problems by providing an opportunity back in to the working world for the long-term unemployed.
The workshop will provide work placements to those who have a history of unemployment due to homelessness and alcohol and drug misuse. These placements will give trainees, an opportunity to learn new skills and develop their curriculum vitae, which will help them to gain a permanent post.
The workshop will provide work placement to those who have a history of unemployment due to homelessness and alcohol and drug misuse. These placements will give trainees, and opportunity to learn new skills and develop their curriculum vitae, which will help them to gain a permanent post. We will also work very closely with the Lifeline Centre, City of Bath College, local Career Services, the Job Centre and other similar agencies and the local business community to ensure that trainees gain the necessary skills and advice to enable them to gain a suitable job or training course.
We have undertaken considerable research and established that there is a market for these products and we expect the project to be self funding. Projects will be sold directly from the repair workshop and as the project progresses through a local retail outlet to be leased by the Genesis Trust. Placements will be targeted at service providers in the SWT and clients of other service providers who live within the SWT.
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