Get some training and get a job. If only it were that simple? We can make it easier ...
We are currently offering a number of free courses aimed at helping people acquire the literacy and employment skills and confidence necessary to get into work. These courses are offered as part of projects we are running throughout the borough.

If you are interested in any of the projects listed, please contact Lisa McCarthy at: lisa.mccarthy@lbhf.gov.uk
or call 020 8600 9191.

We’re waiting to help you take those first steps to success.

OPEN HOUSE Get a fast track qualification

• Produce an impressive CV and type effective letters using the computer
• Improve your grammar and punctuation and gain a qualification
• Find out how to succeed in interviews
• Get the confidence and skills to get the job you want
• Learn different rules and techniques for better spelling
• Find out what you need to achieve and where you need to look to compete for jobs
• Get free advice and guidance about what to do next

This course is offered as part of the OPEN HOUSE PROJECT and is FREE. To qualify, you must be unemployed, a resident of Hammersmith & Fulham and aged 19 or over. Free childcare is provided. Call: 020 8600 9191 or email:eli.davies@lbhf.gov.uk

"OPEN HOUSE has opened so many doors for me. Since finishing the course I have gone on to gain an IT qualification. I am also currently doing a literacy course and will be gaining a Level 2 qualification soon. I am now also training to be a mentor, as part of the LAMP project, which I really enjoy and would never have thought about doing, if I hadn’t done the OPEN HOUSE course. Every day, I am enriching myself with more and more knowledge. My future looks promising."

Svetlana Jukic
OPEN HOUSE PROJECT

ESOL FOR ENTERPRISE

• Are you a refugee?
• Do you have a good level of English?
• Do you have the ambition to run your own business?

If you are 19 or over and want to gain the business skills and language support to be your own boss this course is for you.

ESOL FOR RETAIL

The biggest shopping centre in Europe is opening here soon……. All the biggest high street stores will be looking for staff.
Get a step ahead of the competition and increase your chance of employment.

• Increase your employability alongside your language skills.
• Gain a nationally recognised qualification in ESOL for work in just ten weeks.
• Progress to our employment skills course
• Gain access to a job broker

Please call 020 8600 9191 for further information.

FAMILY LEARNING

We offer a wide range of courses for parents/carers and their children. These take place at schools, children’s centres, adult education and community centres and include floristry, digital photography, art and craft, cookery, jewellery making, first aid, healthy eating, family exercise, family literacy, language and numeracy.

We also organise special events during school holidays and October family learning week. The courses intended for parents /carers only include Money Matters, Personal Development,
Building Self-confidence and adult language and literacy.

For more information please contact
Ljiljana Colak on 0208 600 9172.

NEW DEAL IN THE COMMUNITY

Do you live here?

• Are you a resident of the NDC area of north Fulham?
• Do you want to improve your English?
• Terrified of computers but want to learn?
•  Want to improve your literacy and numeracy skills and gain a qualification?
• Do you need help to manage your money?
• Did you know there are a range of FREE courses on your doorstep?

Call the information line on: 020 8600 9191 to find out about the range of courses offered.

LAMP

• Training to be a learning mentor
• Gain a level 2 OCN in mentoring
• Become a school mentor or community mentor
• Move on to train in teaching, counselling or information, advice and guidance
• Free childcare is provided
  
   

"Mentoring has helped me to back to work"

Mentor Sandy Gloag (right) with Zayba Habib-Sharma at Hammersmith Job Centre

After a long and successful career Sandy Gloag found herself unemployed. “I’d worked hard all my adult life but about four years ago due to health issues I had to claim incapacity benefit. Although I started to make a recovery physically I found that the longer I was out of the job market the less confidence I had. About a year ago I saw that Hammersmith & Fulham adult education service were running a FREE course which teaches you to become a mentor so that you can help others develop their skills and move into further study or employment. I was sure they wouldn’t accept me but I sent in an email and received a phone call from Fiona Wilson who was running the course. She was very friendly and encouraging and made me realise that I did have something to offer and so I enrolled.

I learned to identify my strengths and how best to utilise them. Slowly my confidence returned and I recognised that I had to accept the limitations my health problems imposed upon me and work within those boundaries.

By finding a balance in my life I can still work and help others find the confidence to apply for work.
I am currently working as volunteer mentor at Hammersmith Job Centre which is incredibly satisfying
Sandy’s line manager, Zayba habib-Sharma, the advisory services manager at the job centre said:
“We identified that a mentoring service would be especially useful with incapacity clients. It helps to build confidence in clients that don’t believe in themselves and awakens the realisation that they can find work and achieve. We’re very happy to have Sandy with us and know that she will contribute a lot.”