Getting Ready for Work Directory
Our popular 'Getting Ready for Work' events bring together clients and keyworkers of homeless services with work and learning providers in Brighton and Hove.
This directory provides further details of the various work and learning providers involved.
Aldridge Adult Learning
Offers professional, vocational and university access courses, leisure courses and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL).
Telephone: 01273 422632
Website: https://aldridgeadultlearning.com/
Email: [email protected]
Best Practice People
Offer courses centred around employment, well-being and improving confidence.
Telephone: 0800 888 6064
Website: https://www.bestpracticepeople.co.uk/
Email: [email protected]
BHT Sussex Work Placement Programme
Supports people living in homeless supported accommodation to gain practical workplace experience to help access employment.
Telephone: 01273645493
Website: https://www.bht.org.uk/services/work-learning-employment/work-placement-programme/
Email: [email protected]
Brighton & Hove Food Partnership
A non-profit organisation helping people learn to cook, access a healthy diet, grow their own food and waste less food. Offers lots of different ways to get involved.
Telephone: 01273 234810
Website: https://bhfood.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
Brighton and Hove Adult Education Hub
Offers a range of courses to increase employability skills and to improve wellbeing.
Telephone: 01273 292828
Website: https://adulteducation.brighton-hove.gov.uk/
Email: [email protected]
Brighton Metropolitan College
Offers a comprehensive range of qualifications, full and part time courses for adults, apprenticeships, professional qualifications and university degrees.
Opening Doors – a range of short 3-4 weeks courses, to develop employability skills, for aged 19+, who are unemployed, currently seeking work and claiming benefits.
Telephone: 01273 667788
Website: https://www.gbmc.ac.uk
Brighton Unemployed Families Centre
Provides practical support, education and advice to the unemployed and those on low incomes.
Telephone: 01273 671213
Website: https://bucfp.org/
Email: [email protected]
Cascade
Cascade Creative Recovery delivers creative and wellbeing activities that help build all-round, sustained recovery from alcohol and substance misuse.
Telephone:
Website: https://cascadecreativerecovery.com/
Email: [email protected]
Centre for Ecotherapy
A community space based in Stanmer Park, providing nature-based therapies, opportunities to de-stress and practical activities.
Telephone: 07517 090915
CGL (Change Grow Live) Peer Mentoring
Volunteers with lived experience of drug and alcohol issues or offending backgrounds support others as peer mentors.
Telephone: 01273 731900
Website: https://www.changegrowlive.org/brighton-hove-recovery-service/get-involved#peer
Email: [email protected]
CGL Employment Support (IPS)
Employment support for people recovering from drug or alcohol use.
Telephone: 01273 731900
Website: https://www.changegrowlive.org/brighton-hove/support
Email: [email protected]
Citizen’s Advice Bureau: Advice and Debt Line
For anyone who is struggling to manage their money/make ends meet or manage debt.
Telephone:
Community Works Volunteer Centre
Promotes a range of local volunteering opportunities within Brighton and Hove.
Telephone: 01273 234023
Website: https://www.bhcommunityworks.org.uk/volunteering/
Email: [email protected]
Digital Brighton and Hove: Citizens Online
Digital Brighton & Hove (DBH) helps people in the surrounding area to build digital skills and confidence and provides devices and data packages and connectivity when possible.
Telephone: 01273 013661
Website: https://abilitynet.org.uk/free-tech-support-and-info/digital-brighton-and-hove
Email: [email protected]
Evolve – Brighton YMCA
EVOLVE is open to anyone 18+ supported by either drug and alcohol services in Brighton & Hove, or by the YMCA Brighton who has a work, learning, or volunteering goal they would like to achieve.
Telephone: 01273 220900
Website: https://www.ymcabrighton.co.uk/what-we-do/health-and-wellbeing/evolve/
Email: [email protected]
Fareshare Sussex
Takes good quality surplus food and distributes it to people who are hungry across Sussex and Surrey. They have a range of volunteering roles and an employability programme.
Telephone: 01273 671111
Website: https://faresharesussexandsurrey.org.uk/
Email: [email protected]
Fedcap
Delivers the Restart scheme, providing a broad range of support and employability solutions.
Telephone: 0800 917 9262
Functional Skills UK
A training provider based in Brighton delivering funded and commercially accredited qualifications, to help people develop skills for both in and out of the workplace.
Telephone: 01273 526996
Website: https://functionalskillsuk.co.uk/
Email: [email protected]
Grow
Grow offers opportunities to get outdoors, reconnect with nature, and improve wellbeing.
Telephone: 07557 501557
Website: https://www.growingwellbeing.org.uk/
Email: [email protected]
Launchpad Collective
Supports refugees with employability skills and job searching.
Telephone:
Website: https://thelaunchpadcollective.org/
Email: [email protected]
MESH: Multicultural Employability Support Hub
Supports people from ethnically diverse backgrounds to progress towards and into employment.
Telephone: 01273 234 769
Website: https://trustdevcom.org.uk/project/multicultural-employability-support-hub
Email: [email protected]
Mind Employment Advice
Provides a range of support, advice and information to help people with mental health difficulties manage their work and learning needs.
Telephone: 01273 666950
Website: https://www.mindcharity.co.uk/brighton-and-hove/employment-advice
Email: [email protected]
National Careers Service
Provides information, advice and guidance to help you make decisions on learning, training and work.
Telephone: 0800 100900
Plumpton College
Further and Higher education college in Plumpton, East Sussex, with short and full-time courses, including apprenticeships, in a variety of land based and environmental subjects. .
Telephone: 01273 890454
Website: https://www.plumpton.ac.uk/
Possability People
A Sussex based charity enabling and empowering disabled people and people with long-term health conditions to live the life they choose, through a range of services, including support with benefits.
Telephone: 01273 894040
Website: https://www.possabilitypeople.org.uk/
Email: [email protected]
Pro Baristas
Offer training and support for people who want satisfying jobs in speciality coffee – and who might not normally get a chance.
Telephone:
Website: https://www.probaristas.com/
Email: [email protected]
Real Junk Food Project
Intercepts food waste destined for land fill and uses it to feed people who need it, on a ‘pay as you feel’ basis. Offers volunteering in their cafes and distribution hub.
Telephone:
Website: https://www.realjunkfoodbrighton.co.uk/volunteer/
Email: [email protected]
Southdown Housing – IPS Employment Support
Support for people who are unemployed and have mental health challenges to find and sustain work.
Telephone: 07805 811 186
Website: https://www.southdown.org/services/work-and-wellbeing-sussex/
Email: [email protected]
Southdown Recovery College
Offers educational courses and workshops as a route to recover from mental health challenges.
Telephone: 01273 749500
Website: https://www.southdown.org/services/recovery-college-brighton-hove/
St Luke’s Advice Centre
A small charity helping some of the most vulnerable people in Brighton and Hove by providing practical, compassionate support and advice to help overcome financial hardship by accessing the benefits they need and managing debt.
Telephone: 01273 549203
Website: https://www.stlukesadviceservice.org.uk/
Email: [email protected]
Step-by-Step
A 6 to 12 week 1-1 learner centred programme, focussed towards improving English, maths or digital skills for residents living in supported housing.
Telephone: 07713 711174
Website: https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/families-children-and-learning/adult-education
Email: [email protected]
Swim UK
Operates one of the largest programmes of Swimming Teaching (ASA), Lifeguard qualifications (RLSS) and leisure industry related courses in the UK.
Telephone: 01273 434400
Website: https://www.swimuk.co.uk/
The Hangleton and Knoll Project
Community project offering a variety of education, employment and leisure support.
Telephone: 01273 706469
Website: https://www.hkproject.org.uk/what-we-do/community-learning-health-wellbeing
Email: [email protected]
The King’s Trust (previously The Prince’s Trust)
Offers courses, enterprise initiatives, confidence building, mentoring opportunities, and much more for 16- to 30-year-olds across the UK
Telephone: 0800 842 842
Website: https://www.kingstrust.org.uk/
The Spear Programme
Helps young people, aged 16 to 24, overcome the challenges they face and build vital skills for their career, be fully prepared for the workplace and commit to long-term employment.
Telephone: 07519130348
Website: https://spearbrighton.org/
Email: [email protected]
Varndean College
Offers a range of qualification courses to either support a career change, a return to employment, or to simply upskill you for everyday life.
Telephone: 01273 508011
Website: https://www.varndean.ac.uk/adult-education/
Email: [email protected]
Whitehead Ross
Offers courses and programmes to retrain, upskill, and to support people into employment.
Telephone: 01273 281981
Website: https://www.whiteheadrosseducation.com/
Email: [email protected]
Workers’ Educational Association (WEA)
Offers a variety of adult education courses including English, Maths, Digital Skills and leisure courses.
Telephone: 01273 945869
Website: https://www.wea.org.uk/
Youth Employment Hub
A resource for young adults aged 16 to 25 who live in Brighton & Hove. They can support you to find opportunities, explore your options, help you plan for your future and reach your education, employment and training goals.
Telephone: 01273 291654
Website: https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/youth-employment-hub
Email: [email protected]
