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Lifelong Learning Week: the future of work

Education, up-skilling and retaining is crucial if we want to succeed in the future. As Lifelong Learning Week draws to a close, our Director of Employment Services, Asi Panditharatna, shares his reflections on adult education and the future of work.

• Employment support

Seven tips for making accommodation schemes a success

On World Homelessness Day, here are seven tips for creating successful accommodation schemes.

• Housing & resettlement support

Apprenticeships: unleashing the potential

Apprenticeships are the gold standard of vocational training. Here are three ideas for how the full potential of apprenticeships can be unleashed.

• Employment support

Forward hosts its first ever virtual open day!

Open days at our services are one of the key ways Forward can showcase, first-hand, the fantastic work being done by our colleagues on the frontline.

New Forward initiative helps employers access Kickstart funding

The Forward Trust has launched a new initiative to help employers utilise the government’s Kickstart Scheme.

• Employment support

More Than My Past ambassadors celebrate campaign’s one-year anniversary

Saturday 26 September 2020 marks the one year anniversary of More Than My Past, an ambitious campaign that aims to raise awareness of the potential for ex-offenders and people in recovery from addiction to turn their lives around.

Team Bridges’ Humber Tri Challenge raises over £6,000 for Forward at The Bridges

Supporters of Forward at The Bridges have raised an incredible £6,140 by taking on the Humber Tri Challenge, a gruelling 63-mile triathlon in Hull.

Self-harm and suicide – advice for prison-based teams

On World Suicide Prevention Day, our clinical director Pamela Walters gives advice for preventing suicide and self-harm in prison settings.

• Mental health support

Traineeships: a great stepping stone

The government’s committment to improving and expanding Traineeships is good news. Here’s what it can do to expand the success of the scheme.

• Employment support

The Forward Trust wins funding to research gambling addiction during lockdown in 19 UK prisons

Forward will be tackling gambling in prisons with a new research project and information resources for prisoners who are being released.