Shaw Trust is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom which supports people with complex needs into good work. It was founded in the village of
Shaw
Shaw may refer to:
Places Australia
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Canada
*Shaw Street, a street in Toronto
England
*Shaw, Berkshire, a village
*Shaw, Greater Manchester, a location in the parish of Shaw and Crompton
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in Wiltshire in 1982.
Shaw Trust surpluses are reinvested through its charitable Shaw Trust Foundation into programmes to improve prospects for individuals and communities.
In 2017, Shaw Trust acquired Ixion and Prospects, making it the 14th largest charity in the UK. It has 3,000 employees supported by 850 volunteers, and delivers contracts for major funding agencies including the
European Social Fund
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Department for Work and Pensions
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Big Lottery Fund
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Education and Skills Funding Agency
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Department for Education
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and local government and employers.
Areas of work
The Trust delivers both mainstream (
Work Programme
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) and specialist (
Work Choice
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Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a gi ...
) employment support schemes across Britain. The charity helps people gain skills and find work via a wide range of activities including education and skills contracts, 49 shops and a national volunteering programme as well as health and social enterprise projects.
Shaw Trust helps people gain qualifications through specialised programmes, and helps people seeking work through support in job search skills, interview practice and practical help to enter employment.
Shaw Trust is also an approved sponsor for
academies
An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy ...
through the Shaw Education Trust.
Community enterprises and projects
Shaw Trust runs a range of enterprises and projects – many of which are open to the public – across sectors including catering, recycling and horticulture. These initiatives are firmly embedded in the local communities and provide clients with a broad range of learning and skills development as well as employment opportunities.
People taking part benefit from a range of initiatives including accredited on-site training, work experience and employment, supervisory roles and core learning such as numeracy, literacy and IT skills.
Horticulture
In 2010/11 the horticulture social enterprises provided employment and training opportunities for over 1000 young people and adults with challenging barriers to employment. Locations include:
* Clamp Hill, Stanmore
* Hampshire
* Palmer Gardens, Trowbridge – a garden centre
* Portsmouth
* Seaham
* Stockton
* Westbank Enterprises
Wood recycling
Shaw Trust offers wood recycling services at Scadbury Park, Chislehurst, South London.
Manufacturing
Shaw Trust Industries (Doncaster) is a factory run as a social enterprise by the Trust. They manufacture the following products:
* Plastic protective edging
* Electromagnetic powder coating
* Injection moulding
Food services
Shaw Trust has catering services ranging from cafes to a 'tuck by truck' snack delivery business.
Shops
Shaw Trust has 49 charity shops across England and Wales, stocking a wide range of items that have been donated for resale. All shops are staffed by volunteers and Shaw Trust staff. The income raised from shops goes to projects that support disabled and disadvantaged people in local communities.
Their shops also help develop clients’ employability skills through work experience and work placements. They provide a safe and supportive environment for clients to develop confidence, learning and skills.
Shaw Education Trust
In 2014, the
Department for Education
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A Department ...
awarded Approved Sponsor of
Academy
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status to the Trust. A multi-academy trust, Shaw Education Trust, was created to support
special schools
Special education (known as special-needs education, aided education, exceptional education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, or SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates th ...
and mainstream schools serving disadvantaged communities. , the trust oversees 25 primary and secondary schools in north-west England and the Midlands.
Shaw Education Trust schools
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Blackfriars Academy,
Newcastle-under-Lyme
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*Brookfields School,
Widnes
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Historic counties of England, Historically in Lancashire, it is on t ...
*Coppice Academy, Newcastle-under-Lyme
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Endon High School
Endon High School is a coeducational secondary school located in Endon in the English county of Staffordshire.
Endon Hall Primary School and St Lukes CE Primary School in Endon act as the main feeder schools for Endon High School, as well as ...
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Endon
Endon is a village within the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England. It is southwest of Leek and north-northeast of Stoke-on-Trent. Endon was formerly a township in civil parish of Leek.
Together with neighbouring Stan ...
*Evergreen Academy,
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton () is a city, metropolitan borough and administrative centre in the West Midlands, England. The population size has increased by 5.7%, from around 249,500 in 2011 to 263,700 in 2021. People from the city are called "Wulfrunian ...
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Fortis Academy
Fortis Academy is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in the Great Barr area of Birmingham, England.
History
The school was officially opened by D. Rogers on 24 September 1957 as Great Barr Comprehensive School. The schoo ...
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Birmingham
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*Ivy House School,
Derby
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*Kidsgrove Primary School,
Kidsgrove
Kidsgrove is a town in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, on the Cheshire border. It is part of the Potteries Urban Area, along with Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme. It has a population of 26,276 (2019 census). ...
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Kidsgrove Secondary School
Kidsgrove Secondary School is a coeducational secondary school located in Kidsgrove in the English county of Staffordshire.
It was originally known as Maryhill High School before converting to academy status in June 2013. The school was then r ...
, Kidsgrove
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Madeley High School
Madeley High School, established 1957, is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in the village of Madeley, Staffordshire, England. The school was founded as a secondary modern school. It became a comprehensive high schoo ...
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Madeley
*The Meadows Primary Academy,
Stoke-on-Trent
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*The Meadows Primary School, Madeley
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The Orme Academy
The Orme Academy, previously known as Wolstanton High School and Wolstanton County Grammar School, is a high school in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
History
The school was founded in 1928, as Wolstanton County Grammar School, as a repla ...
, Newcastle-under-Lyme
*Pine Green Academy, Wolverhampton
*St Andrew's Academy, Derby
*St Martins School, Derby
*Saxon Hill Academy,
Lichfield
Lichfield () is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated roughly south-east of the county town of Stafford, south-east of Rugeley, north-east of Walsall, north-west of Tamworth and south-west of B ...
*Seabridge Primary School, Newcastle-under-Lyme
*Streethay Primary School, Lichfield
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Tottington High School,
Tottington
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Unsworth Academy,
Unsworth
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Walton Hall Academy,
Eccleshall
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His ...
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The Westleigh School
The Westleigh School (formerly Westleigh High School) is a co-educational secondary school located in Leigh in the English county of Greater Manchester.
It was first established by Lancashire County Council and became a comprehensive school ...
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Leigh
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Pronounced :
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** Leigh (UK Parliament constituency)
* Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
Pronounced :
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Woodhey High School
Woodhey High School is a coeducational secondary school in Ramsbottom, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England.
Woodhey High School was built by Bury LEA (Local Education Authority) in 1979 to replace the Peel Brow S ...
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Ramsbottom
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Justice services
Since January 2010, the NOMS
European Social Fund
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Co-financing programme has been working with offenders across England.
National Offender Management Service
His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) responsible for the correctional services in England and Wales. It was created in 2004 as the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) by combin ...
(NOMS) is an executive agency of the
Ministry of Justice A Ministry of Justice is a common type of government department that serves as a justice ministry.
Lists of current ministries of justice
Named "Ministry"
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, which brings together the Probation Service and Prison Service. A key objective for NOMS is the reduction of re-offending.
In 2015, the government announced the outcome of the latest NOMS tender opportunities to work with offenders. Shaw Trust formed an alliance with
Crime Reduction Initiatives for a number of the tender opportunities and will work with offenders in the East of England, London, West Midlands, North East and the South West.
Mergers
Careers Development Group
The Careers Development Group was a
workfare
Workfare is a governmental plan under which welfare recipients are required to accept public-service jobs or to participate in job training. Many countries around the world have adopted workfare (sometimes implemented as "work-first" policies) to ...
organisation and
Work Programme
The Work Programme (WP) was a UK government welfare-to-work programme introduced in Great Britain in June 2011. It was the flagship welfare-to-work scheme of the 2010–2015 UK coalition government. Under the Work Programme the task of getting th ...
provider in the United Kingdom.
Pursuing a goal of providing a helping hand to needy and jobless people, Careers Development Group had been working for over three decades. According to their records, in 2011/12, the organization helped over 30,000 people into jobs. As well as their work programme, young people from
South London
South London is the southern part of London, England, south of the River Thames. The region consists of the Districts of England, boroughs, in whole or in part, of London Borough of Bexley, Bexley, London Borough of Bromley, Bromley, London Borou ...
had received support from the organization in job placement in social and charity enterprises.
CDG group advocated: "A society in which everyone has the opportunity for employment, inclusion and independence". Hence, CDG not only provided jobs but also prepared people by imparting training for better placements. Their charity work included support for those with disabilities, health problems and lack of experience.
In 2012, CDG merged with Shaw Trust.
Prospect Services
Prospects was a welfare-to-work company in the United Kingdom that provided education, employment, training and care products and services. Prospects worked with over 500,000 clients each year, mainly in England and Wales. It employed more than 1,400 staff, achieving Leader in Diversity status in 2016 and was ranked in the top 100 index by the National Centre for Diversity.
Prospects was responsible for the delivery of the
Work Programme
The Work Programme (WP) was a UK government welfare-to-work programme introduced in Great Britain in June 2011. It was the flagship welfare-to-work scheme of the 2010–2015 UK coalition government. Under the Work Programme the task of getting th ...
, a workfare scheme. The company was a prime contractor for the Work Programme in the south-west of England and a subcontractor in
Bristol
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and London.
References
External links
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Charities for disabled people based in the United Kingdom
Social welfare charities based in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 1981
Charities based in Bristol