Workways re-opens its doors
Employment project re-opens its doors to help people
back to work
The Workways+ employment project will build on
the success of the first EU-backed Workways project which helped
12,000 people in South West Wales between 2009 and 2015.
Workways+ will offer training and paid work
experience opportunities to 4,000 unemployed people over the next
three years.![Wokways+ Team Wokways+ Team](/media/3863/Workways20team1_m.jpg)
Backed by £7.5 million from the European
Social Fund through the Welsh Government, Workways+ helps local
people overcome the obstacles which prevent them from finding
employment by providing support with job search, CVs, applications
forms, interview skills, telephone techniques, access to training
and paid work experience, work trials and taster days for some
participants. Participants are then matched with local businesses,
helping them gain the vital skills and experience needed to find
long term employment.
Workways+ Regional Project Manager, Oonagh
Gavigan said “The one to one support Workways+ will offer, as well
as the relationships we have with local employers, means we are
ideally placed to help jobseekers in their search for
employment.”
Leader of Neath Port Talbot County Borough
Council, Cllr Alun Thomas, said: ‘We’re delighted to have the
Workways team back in the community helping people that need
support in finding employment’.