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Our final stop is Clissold Park where we meet with four trainees on one of our employment projects.
Communities without people in meaningful work can not function. That's why Groundwork has been one of the largest providers of Intermediate Labour Market programmes and Transitional Employment programmes for many years.
This project is part of a major national programme designed to support young people and those in unemployment hotspots. It aims to bridge the gap between unemployed people and skilled sustainable jobs. The scheme offers places on a full time 26 week waged programme targeting local unemployed young people.
Each young person is engaged on a trainee basis and undertakes a 6 month fixed term contract, where they are contracted for 25 hours per week. Each placement includes valuable, real life, work experience, relevant training and weekly interventions with a Groundwork advisor to develop job searching skills. The aim is to support the transition into sustainable employment at the end of the training period.
The contracts offered by Groundwork are focused around green jobs, health and social care and childcare and education. There are currently seven trainees working with London Borough of Hackney Parks department, with four working at Clissold Park and they are due to complete their scheme at the end of August 2010.
We meet with trainees who have been developing a wide range of horticultural skills and Groundwork staff are supporting them to access sustainable employment when they finish the programme.
You can also see Safina's experience of being a part of the same programme here:
