The New Year, New You Event!
The Connecting Choices programme will be holding a free event on Friday 21 January 2022 from 10am till 3pm. If you are out of work and live in Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme or Staffordshire Moorlands the Connecting Choices programme could be the solution for you.
About the event
At the event you will be able find out how the Connecting Choices programme could support you into training, education, volunteering, or employment. You will be able to have an informal chat with our partners to find out how they could help you and the services they offer in the local area. Free refreshments will be provided throughout the event and if you sign up to the programme at the event you will receive a free incentive.
Meet our partners
• Achieve Training: Focus on tackling worklessness among young people, offering over 1,000 training and employment opportunities every year.
• Change Grow Live: A national health and social care charity helping you with challenges including drugs and alcohol, housing, justice, health and wellbeing.
• City of Stoke-on-Trent Council: To strengthen the communities that we live in and provide practical help and support to vulnerable and isolated members of our society, without judgement or discrimination.
• Genius Within: Help people with neurodiversity (including dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and Autistic Spectrum Disorders) to fulfil their potential in employment and their careers.
• Groundwork West Midlands: Groundwork is a federation of charities working locally to transform lives in the UK’s most disadvantaged communities.
• Royal Association for Deaf people: Ensuring deaf people can achieve their aspirations by providing the support they need.
• Starfish Social Hubs: Champion the needs of people suffering from mental illness who need rehabilitation and assist in their treatment and care by the provision of facilities for work and recreation.
• We are with you: Support individuals, families, and communities on the road to recovery. We are with you support adults, children, young adults, and older people to make positive behavioural changes and improve their lives particularly with substance misuse.
• YMCA: Provide young people with an opportunity to develop and realise their potential with their North Staffordshire youth campus being regarded as one of the best YMCA centres in the country.
Entry
Time: 10am – 3pm.
Turn up on the day to speak with us and our partners to learn about how the Connecting Choices programme could support you or a friend.
Face coverings will be required, and sanitiser stations will be available throughout the venue. We ask all attendees to take a lateral flow test no more than 24 hours before attending, and anyone with symptoms does not attend.
Where is the event?
Best Western Stoke City Centre Hotel, 66 Trinity Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 5NB
About the Connecting Choices programme
The Connecting Choices programme supports those furthest from work. Working with specialist delivery partners we take a person centred approach and tailor our support to the participant. The programme is funded by the European Social Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund.
