The Kickstart Scheme was announced by the government in 2020 to address the employment needs of 16–24-year-olds due to the pandemic. Rolled out early in 2021, the £2 billion scheme was designed to fund hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country.

It’s three years since I qualified as a Yoga Teacher. 200 hours of classes plus countless more learning the muscles of the body and how to say “Tree pose” in Sanskrit (Vrksasana if you’re interested).

Transform Lives Company has got such a brilliant variety of volunteer placements across the city for those who take part in Give Get Go.

Kickstart proved there’s an appetite from employers to recruit local talent even when they might not be the perfect candidate on paper. TLC have proved that we can find and match that talent to the right employers and so we’ve launched the TLC Talent Pool, making TLC the “Go To” place to hire local talent.

Another wonderful addition to our TLC Talent Pool!

Do we have have anyone who could offer Annabel an opportunity? Please share with your partners.

With it being Volunteers Week, I thought I would share my own personal experience with volunteering.

Circa 2018, my life was a merry-go-round of the same routine