Shaw Trust
Shaw Trust is a national charity which supports disabled and disadvantaged people prepare for work, find jobs and live more independently, believing everyone has the right to work. The Trust have campaigned for over 25 years to turn this vision into a reality.
Every year the Trust works with over 60,000 clients who face barriers due to disability, ill health or social circumstance. Thousands of employers and public sector organisations also benefit from our range of services for business.
Shaw Trust is the UK’s largest third sector provider and one of the Government’s lead partners in the delivery of employment programmes for disabled and disadvantaged people.
Assistance
To help people move off benefits into employment and live more independent lives using government and other funded employment programmes
- Finance and benefits advice
- Help to find a job
- Work preparation and skills training
- Support to stay in work
Support public sector organisations modernise and deliver effective social care services
- Alternatives to day care
- Young people’s services
- Independent living and direct payments
- Employment services to help people off benefits
- Personal development and training
Help businesses recruit and manage a diverse workforce
- Recruitment
- Absence and retention management
- Website Accessibility Accreditation Service
- Managing mental health
The Shaw Trust hold fortnightly surgeries on Monday afternoons at Burnham One Place with this service shortly to be launched from Southminster One Place. Appointments are not always necessary and you are welcome to call in and visit Shaw Trusts representative for this area Sarah Ford.
