Latest News from Colebrook
Access for All Work Club Comes to Colebrook
Funding was gained from Santander and The Gibbons Foundation to launch a user led Work Club and this was launched at the end of October and will soon be up and running on a regular basis. The Work Club will help people seeking employment to write CVs, prepare for interviews, search for jobs and build confidence.
It's here.....
Colebrook Work Club will be meeting on a weekly basis and will support members seeking employment to improve their job prospects. The first work club will take place every Friday starting on Friday 3rd February, 1pm – 4pm, Onward House, 55 Greenbank Road, Plymouth.
The work club has now joined forces with our neighbours Open Doors who already operate a work club from Onward House.
The first 6 weeks of the work club will focus on the following:
Date |
What we will be looking at |
Week 1 |
Getting to know each other (meet staff and steering group members)
The work club schedule
The advantages of getting back into work |
Week 2 |
Job searching – How? Where? When?
Time to search for jobs |
Week 3 |
Filling out an application form – the Do’s and Don’ts
Guest speaker |
Week 4 |
CV writing with NextStep |
Week 5 |
Interview skills
Guest speaker |
Week 6 |
Volunteering Opportunities
Plymouth Guild |
The work club sessions are open to anyone looking to get back into work.
Tea and coffee will be available at the work club sessions.
If you would like more information please call Katie (Community Development Coordinator) on 211249 or email kost@colebrookhousing.co.uk
If you would like to pass on the message about Access for All Work Club please downloaded This Flyer
Awards for All Funding for Colebrook!!!!!
A Big Lottery Fund - ‘Awards for All’ grant has been awarded to Colebrook to carry out the project ‘Partnership Plymouth’. We are holding a health roadshow as part of Carers Rights Day on Friday 2nd December at the Holiday Inn, Plymouth from 10am to 3 pm. This work will focus on improving health and reducing inequalities for people in the most deprived and hard to reach communities across Plymouth and will include 'Active Step' sessions being hosted by Eldertree. Other areas of the project will be healthy living workshops, micro provider workshops and a Time to Change event which is being held in the city centre on Saturday 28th April 2012 to tackle the stigma associated with mental health. For more information on these events please contact Katie Ost on (01752) 211249 or via email on kost@colebrookhousing.co.uk.
Opportunity Knocks Timebank - Volunteering With a Difference
Please see click here for more information on Timebanking.
Hope Credit Union
A credit union is a community based savings and loans organisation. Colebrook Housing society works with Plymouth and District Credit Union. Colebrook promotes membership of the credit union in order to support good money management and as an alternative to more expensive sources of credit. All clients, staff and volunteers may join the credit union. For more details you may contact the Social Inclusion Manager on (01752) 211348 or by having a look at Plymouth and District Credit Union’s website: www.pdcu.co.uk.
Promoting Independence Fund
If you receive Colebrook’s services or are someone who has a carer who is registered with carers Champions, you may be eligible to access this fund. Grants are available to support people in living more independently. If you’d like to find out more, please click here for leaflet.
Colebrook Housing is Host to the Plymouth Local Involvement Network (LINk). To find out more about us, visit our website by clicking here: www.plymouth-link.co.uk