Volunteering 4 Employment Skills is a new Volunteer Service project aimed
at introducing long-term unemployed people into volunteering with a view to
helping them to develop skills and knowledge to gain employment. It is a tailored
service offering individual support and planning to its users including self-awareness
and confidence building, key skills training; basically anything that enables
and encourages their first step into volunteering. We will offer as much or
as little support as is needed to accompany volunteers to organisations, maintain
contact via telephone and face-to-face, liase with the organisation to check
progress, issues etc. We hope volunteers will stay on the project for 3-6
months, although some will stay much longer, when they will be offered mentoring
for future advancement i.e. access job-searching, c.v. writing etc.
All clients must be unemployed and we are particularly interested in supporting
ex-offenders, homeless, refugees, drug and alcohol misusers and lone parents
although anyone who needs support to increase their employability skills are
encouraged to contact us.
If you would like any further information, or have a clients / service users
who may benefit from the project please contact Tess Hullett or Jo Thorpe on 0115 9348427
or email at v4es@nottinghamcvs.co.uk
