From looking after your mental health to finding work, life is full of challenges. We’re here to make it easier for you by helping you improve your skills, training and experience.

We can help with:

• Finding work

• Qualifications

• Volunteering opportunities

• Life skills

Quick links: Careers Clubs  |  Free computer courses |   Level 2 Certificate in Warehousing and Storage Principles   |   Get into Employment or Training   |   Level 1 Award in Health & Safety in Construction    |  English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)  |   Free support with English and Maths  |  Employment support for parents  |  Mentoring project with Paydata  |  Sign up form

Careers Clubs

Our Careers Clubs can help you to learn the skills you need to get into work, whether you are looking to get your first job, move to a new role, return to work after a long time or get back into work after a redundancy, we can give you tailored support to get the job you want. We can help with CV writing, applications and interview skills as well as finding opportunities to begin with.

Our Careers Clubs run in person:

Hampton Library, Clayburn Road, second Monday of every month, 2.30pm - 4.30pm

Orton Library, Bushfield, every Tuesday, 9.30am –11.30am

Westwood Community Hub, every Thursday, 10.00am –12.00pm

Ad-hoc one to one meetings to discuss career plans and get support to achieve them can also be arranged at Customer Central in Bridge Street, Peterborough. Please contact us to arrange a time.

Places are limited and must be booked in advance.

Complete the form below or call 01733 396404 to find out more about Career Clubs or book your place.

Free computer courses

Join us, Peterborough College and Jobsmart and improve you computer skills.

Basic ICT classes

Topics to be covered are:

• Searching the internet
• Bookmarking pages
• Creating folders and moving items into the folder
• Downloading, saving and inserting pictures into documents
• Editing and formatting google docs
• Using google chat, google space and google keep#
• Composing and sending professional looking emails
• Replying to emails that have been sent to you
• Downloading and saving attachments
• Attaching files and sending them via email
• Creating and formatting a simple word doc
• Inserting and formatting pictures into documents
• Saving and sending documents, finding them after you have saved them!
• Creating a basic spreadsheet
• Using formulas to perform basic calculations in a spreadsheet
• Creating and editing charts and graphs in spreadsheets

These sessions are perfect for anyone who has very little knowledge of computers and the internet.

Classes will run every Friday, 9.45 to 11.45, from 6 October until 16 February at our Westwood Community Hub.

We have a new cohort starting from 15 December. You can join this group on our sign up day on 15 December at our Westwood Hub. Please bring ID with you. 

To find out more and book your place complete the form below , call us on 01733 396404 or drop us an email

Higher Level ICT classes

These classes assume you have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel and have used them within a workplace setting. If you do not have this them you will need to start with the basic ICT class.

Topics to be covered are:

Word

• Using the find and replace tool
• Using cut/copy/paste
• Inserting and resizing pictures including altering the aspect ratio
• Using formatting tools including sub/super script, case, copyright and wingding symbols
• Using align text, tabs, indents, bullet points, line spacing, borders and automatic hyphenation
• Using mail merge to create letters and labels
• Using advanced table options in Word including merging and splitting cells
• Inserting cover pages, using themes and heading styles, altering margins, adding columns and creating hyperlinks
• Moving pictures, text wrapping, grouping pictures, adding and altering text boxes, rotating text, headers and footers

Excel

• Renaming and inserting/deleting sheets, resizing columns
• Formatting cells using number, date and currency
• Adding shading and borders
• Using AutoSum, min, max, average functions
• Inserting, formatting and adding details to charts
• Inserting basic filters and using them to calculate information
• Embedding formatting options, page layout, headers and footers

Classes will run every Friday, 12.15 to 2pm,  from 6 October until 16 February at our Westwood Community Hub.

We have a new cohort starting from 15 December. You can join this group on our sign up day on 15 December at our Westwood Hub. Please bring ID with you. 

To find out more and book your place complete the form below , call us on 01733 396404 or drop us an email

Level 2 Certificate in Warehousing and Storage Principles

Run by Steadfast Training, this course will help you to understand:

• How to receive and store goods and materials
• How to process orders and dispatch goods
• How to deliver effective customer service
• Health, safety, security and legislation

Plus it will look great for your CV!

One week course from the 4 to 8 December, from  9:30am to 3:00pm, delivered in person at our Westwood Community Hub.

To find out more and book your place complete the form below , call us on 01733 396404 or drop us an email

Get into Employment or Training

Are you looking for work or training? Have you hit a barrier finding work and need some extra help?
This course, with City College Peterborough, will cover confidence, motivation, help you to improve your job searching habits and support with creating the best CV and cover letter, as well as preparing for and making a good impression during interviews.

The course will run: Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 December 9.30am-2.30pm at our Westwood Community Hub

To find out more and book your place complete the form below , call us on 01733 396404 or drop us an email

Level 1 Award in Health & Safety in Construction 

The benefits of completing this course with Steadfast Training include:

• Gain a Level 1 Award in Health and Safety in Construction
• Complete CITB test (at no extra cost)
• Get your FREE CSCS (labourer) card - on successful completion of the course and test

Three day course from the 18 to 20 December, from  9:30am to 3:00pm, delivered in person at our Westwood Community Hub.

To find out more and book your place complete the form below , call us on 01733 396404 or drop us an email

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)

We are partnering with WEA to offer free English classes to speakers of other languages. The classes will run every Wednesday at our Westwood Hub. 

You will need to have an assessment before joining the course. 

To find out more and book your place complete the form below , call us on 01733 396404 or drop us an email.

Free support with English and Maths

Having a good standard or maths and English can help you in many ways. It will improve your chances of succeeding at work or in training, as well as giving your confidence a boost. We are offering free access to the BKSB portal so that you can learn, improve and gain a nationally recognised qualification in Functional Skills English and Maths. 

Sessions run every Wednesday, 10am to 12pm at our Westwood Hub

To sign up, complete the form below  call us on 01733 396404 or drop us an email and we will be in touch.

Employment support for parents

If you are a parent and looking to return to work or upskill, we can help you. Our sessions will give you everything you need to find and apply for work and succeed in interviews.

We’ll also help you to:

• Build your confidence.
• Look at options for childcare.
• Find roles that fit around your family.
• You can even bring your child to the sessions. 

First Monday of every month (from 11/09.23), 12.30 – 2pm at Family Voice, Goldhay Centre, 105 Paynels PE2 5QP
Last Monday of every month (from 25/09/23), 11am – 1pm at Westwood Community Hub, Hampton Court, Westwood  PE3 7JB
 

To find out more and book your place complete the form below , call us on 01733 396404 or drop us an email . 

Give your career a boost

We're working with local consultancy business, Paydata, to provide you with support to gain the skills you need to progress your career, and improve your family's prospects.

With our support you'll  identify your goals and the skills you need to achieve them. We'll also provide two years targeted, one to one mentoring support to help you on the right road for a brighter future. Our support will enable you to build their confidence, attend training and in turn progress in your career. We can even help to fund any training you decide to do!

So, if you want to take up this chance of a lifetime and are currently in work, get in touch today and find out more. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain! Just complete the form below and select the Mentoring Support option.

To find out more about the support we can offer you to get into work, complete the form below and we will be in touch.