Green-Works is an award winning social enterprise and registered charity dedicated to helping the environment by diverting redundant office and school furniture from landfill by providing reused and remanufactured furniture to small business, charities, schools and community groups whilst providing training and real work experience to the unemployed.
18-24 year olds get on the green jobs ladder
7 April 2010
Green-Works are proud to be able to offer 55 people employment and training position through the Future Jobs Fund. The Future Jobs Fund provided by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in partnership with the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) aims to create 170,000 additional jobs across the country, primarily aimed at 18-24 year olds who have been out of work for nearly a year to deliver real benefits to communities.Its expect around 10,000 of the 170,000 jobs created, will be green jobs. Green-Works currently have 55 new employees in the Wembley warehouse, 7 in Community Transport (Wolverhampton) and 17 in Firstfruit (East London).The employees are based in a variety of positions through out the operations from warehouse staff to finance, HR and customer services.
One of our recent FJF employees, Min talks about his experience After signing on at the jobcentre for over six months, I joined Green-Works via the Future Job Fund scheme, on a six months contract. I am studying to be an Accountant. I was looking for a job in Accountancy whilst doing this but it was so difficult to even get an interview without experience. I was placed in the Finance department as the Junior Credit Controller. I am working in a small finance team. All my colleagues have taught and explained to me all I have to do with Credit Control.
After a month, I started doing Purchase Ledger. I enjoy doing Credit Control and Purchase Ledger without any difficulties. My daily job refreshes my accounting knowledge and gives me a lot of help with my study. I was also given useful internal training for customer invoicing, managing cash and banking. I am more confident to find a job in Accountancy after finishing my contract with Green-Works. It should be easier with my experience.
Green-Works Facts
Green-Works celebrated its 10th birthday in 2010
We were the first to recognise the scale of the commerical furniutre problem with towards 500,000 tonnes of commercial furniture being dumped in landfill every year by companies
Green-Works has helped over 5,500 charities and organisations providing low cost furniture
We have donated over 70 jam packed containers of valauable educational and office furniture across the developing world
Our volunteers programme has save the state over £500K in social benefit
We have 5 proceesing centres across the UK which combined offer over 100,000 sq ft of capacity to deal with unwanted items
Green-Works was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise - Sustainable Development 2008
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