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Transgender Awareness Month November 2024 – Fostering Understanding and Inspiring Action

November is Transgender Awareness Month, a month dedicated to celebrating the transgender community, raising awareness about the challenges they face, and advocating for their rights.

Implementing the results of the 2023 Staff EDI Survey into our 2024/25 work plan

In November 2023, The Forward Trust undertook an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) survey of its staff to enrich our understanding of how successfully EDI practices are deployed across the organisation.

• Employment support

Celebrating Black History Month at The Forward Trust – cultural awareness through reflection, networking and inclusion

The Forward Trust’s Race and Ethnicity Employee Resource Group (ERG) organised an event at our head office to recognise this important global awareness month.

Innovation: The Forward Trust Community App

The Forward Trust have developed a new peer support app for clients. It combines a content feed with GDPR-compliant chat messaging and access to resources, all tailored to clients’ individual journeys with Forward.

• Forward Connect (peer-led community)

The Forward Trust Staff amongst Finalists at 2024 ERSA Employability Awards

This week, we were delighted to find out that staff at The Forward Trust have been named as finalists in two categories at the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) 2024 Employability Awards.

• Employment support

Recovery Month Reflections: Forward’s in-person recovery event for London-based staff

On Wednesday the 25th of September 2024, The Forward Trust’s Dependency and Recovery Team brought together employees from Forward and partner agencies for a day of education, networking, and shared experiences.

• Recovery support

Inspiring Hope, Raising Aspirations: Forward’s Career Information Advice and Guidance in Prisons

For the past six years, The Forward Trust has been delivering Career Information Advice and Guidance (CIAG) services across 18 prisons in England, supporting over 6,000 prisoners in 2023-2024 alone.

• Employment support
• Probation support

World Mental Health Day 2024: a look at work

Everyone deserves a workplace where they thrive. When we don’t find that place, it’s society’s loss, too.

• Mental health support

World Mental Health Day 2024: a day to celebrate

10th October marks World Mental Health Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness about mental health issues and promoting better mental wellbeing across the globe.

• Mental health support

The Latest Graduation Testimonies from Recovery Online

Forward Trust’s Recovery Online is an intensive 12-week structured rehab programme which enables people who experience addiction to remotely access group therapy and tailored support from anywhere in the UK.

• Recovery support
• Drug & alcohol support