BW )(: Volunteering

[Helen Young]

Hello everyone,

 

Nice to 'meet' you all. I hope it is okay for me to ask about this on
here, and apologies to anyone for whom this isn't relevant.

 

My name is Helen, and I work for Seetec, a training provider in Bristol
city centre, which aims to get people on the New Deal programme back
into work through, amongst other things, funding internal and external
study for work-related qualifications and finding voluntary work
experience placements for our learners. In these, they can gain valuable
skills in their chosen industry and give something back to the community
at the same time.

 

Quite often, we get jobseekers referred to us looking for opportunities
in IT. We've had self-taught computer hardware buffs, who don't have
their skills quantified the way businesses want with a qualification and
industry experience, programmers with degrees who have had to take some
time out to care for loved ones and find everything has moved on when
they can return to work and IT support whizzes made redundant by
companies who failed to keep their training up-to-date, now struggling
to get their foot back in the door.

 

I'm writing to ask whether Bristol Wireless or any other company
subscribed to this list could benefit from an extra pair of skilled
hands, for free, up to four days a week for anything up to 12 weeks.
(Knowle West Web Computers have had a few of our learners come to help
out with them, and that's been and continues to be a really positive
partnership.) All you would need to do is provide a safe environment for
the volunteer to work in and become a referee if they do a good job, and
you get the final say as to whom is right for the roles you can offer.
We can also help to set up work trials, if any of you have a vacancy one
of our learners would be suitable to fill.

 

If you think you could help and could use help or would just like some
more information, get in touch with me - Helen.Young at seetec.co.uk - and
I'll give you some more details.

 

Kind regards,

Helen

 

Helen Young

Marketing Co-ordinator

 

Seetec

4th Floor

Eagle House

Colston Avenue

Bristol.

BS1 1EN

 

Tel: 0117 9292183

Fax: 0117 9292183

Email: Helen.Young at seetec.co.uk

 


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