Business in the Community announces innovative new programme to help homeless people into work

Business in the Community is delighted to launch Get Ready! – a new programme designed to provide early back-to-work interventions for homeless people. Get Ready!, launching in eight locations, forms part of the Government’s new ‘Vision to End Rough Sleeping: No Second Night Out Nationwide’.

Get Ready! will be a truly collaborative enterprise, bringing together the expertise of homelessness agencies and business professionals.

Get Ready! will provide early opportunities for people who have experienced homelessness to engage with work. Practical training and activities such as business-led workshops will raise aspirations and inspire people to take the next steps towards employment.

Get Ready! will also provide training by business for key workers and homeless sector social enterprises to help them enhance the employability support they provide to homeless people.

Working in partnership with local companies and homelessness agencies, the programme will be delivered in Birmingham, Bristol, Great Yarmouth, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield.

Anne Willmot, Director of Business Action on Homelessness says:

“We are very excited to be offering new ways for businesses to support the Government’s vision to end rough sleeping. Get Ready! will be a truly collaborative enterprise, reliant on bringing together the expertise of homelessness agencies and business professionals to develop a programme of support to accelerate the journey from homelessness to sustained work. 

“The initiative will complement our highly successful Ready for Work programme, which offers more intensive support through work placements, job clubs and job coaching.”

Get Ready! will be funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government and local and national business.

There are many simple ways in which companies can support Get Ready! Please contact faye.goldman@bitc.org.uk / 020 7566 6611 or visit www.bitc.org.uk/baoh for further details.