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Oldham

Get Oldham Working 

Get Oldham Working is a Council service that aims to help people find work and training opportunities. The service offers:

  • Help if you are long-term unemployed or have limited recent work experience.
  • Personal learning mentors to assist you with improving your job prospects.
  • Help with writing CVs and making job applications.
  • Help with getting a better job that makes the most of your skills.
  • Information about local jobs and training opportunities, including job fairs and other recruitment events.
  • A register you can join if you are seeking work.

Find out more

 

​​“Moving On with Mahdlo” is an innovative personal development project, underpinned by Choice Theory and Youth Work practice.

Contact Claire.crossfield@mahdloyz.org​ or call ​​0161 624 0111​.

​Skills for All: Empowering Oldham Community is a project dedicated to equipping the community members of Oldham Greenhill with essential digital skills and basic English language proficiency, cooking and wellbeing sessions. By bridging the digital divide, enhancing language abilities, improving life skills the project empowers individuals to thrive in Oldham.

Contact admin@oghcsrc.uk or call 07722 090530.

The Live Life to the Full course can help make a difference in people’s lives. With fantastic resources and a supportive coach each session will follow on from the previous to help people to understand their feelings, be able look at things differently, build confidence and empower to progress into work opportunities. 

Contact ​​Calmahead@outlook.com​ or call ​​07772 702887.

​​Running an Introduction To Playwork Course to equip people with new skills and experience. To also, to engage with new arrivals to Oldham to participate in craft sessions and community events to get to know more about Oldham, support available, new opportunities involved in community life.​ 

Contact ​​playactiongroup@hotmail.com​ or call ​​0161 678 9662​.

​​The Outdoor Collaborative aims to empower young people through outdoor digital photography and video sessions, serving as a stepping stone to further education and future employment. By combining creative exploration with valuable digital skills, our sessions not only foster environmental awareness and personal development but also equip participants with practical tools for success in higher education and the job market, ensuring they are well-prepared for the opportunities of the future.​ 

Contact ​​Award@outdoorcollaborative.org​ or call ​​07376 246940​.

​Our project aims to provide marginalised Oldham residents, who are difficult to reach and not engaging, with the skills, confidence, self-esteem, and capability to move into or towards employment, training, or education, or to move into better paid employment.

Contact ​​maria.williams@upturn.org.uk​ or call ​​0161 652 9000​.

To develop educational opportunities for disadvantaged BAME women to provide sessions in ICT, numeracy, literacy, essential life skills, raising aspirations to the women of Oldham. To enable individuals who struggle to find volunteering opportunities to gain volunteering, work placements or employment. To signpost individuals to the appropriate support and services. 

Contact ​​fauzia@fatimawomens.org.uk​ or call ​​07459 814035​.

​​The My Skillset project is designed as an engaging and empowering initiative to enable participants to take ownership of their learning journey by removing barriers, developing confidence, and building on their strengths and interests to effectively engage in learning or employment.​

Contact ​​Kashaff@oakcd.org.uk​ or call 0161 531 6543.

Resilience building, skills, training, and employability support to marginalised young people aged 13-25 from Oldham. Inspiring, connecting, and equipping them with the essential networks and skills for life, learning and work enabling them to achieve their full potential.

Contact ​​victoria@rioferdinandfoundation.com​ or call ​​07375 701950​.