Wokingham Job Support Centre

Registered Charity No 1039801

The Cornerstone, Norreys Avenue, Wokingham RG40 1UE
Telephone 0118 977 0517 Fax 0118 979 6070 email wjscen@yahoo.co.uk

SPONSORS

Our main financial support comes through annual grants from Wokingham Borough Council and the Town Council. This core funding is augmented by funding from Town and Parish Councils within the Borough. Currently we receive support from Wokingham, Woodley and Earley Town Councils and Arborfield, Barkham, Finchampstead, Shinfield, St Nicholas Hurst, Winnersh and Wokingham Without Parish Councils. Access links to Town and Parish Council and Community websites.

We are also grateful to other organisations for project funding:

• nextstep Berkshire for funding a number of projects, most notably support for providing a service to clients with qualifications less than NVQ2. Also funds have been provided to cover the annual licence fee for the very popular Birchin Lane database of jobs and to buy books to expand our library.
• Berkshire Community Foundation for substantial European Social Funding that allowed us to completely renew our computer systems and provide training for staff.
• The Community Council for Berkshire for providing funding through the Community Champions scheme to cover the costs of laptop computers for use in outreach work and to provide additional workstations for use on a day-to-day basis by clients.
• The Lions Club of Wokingham for donating bookcases to display our extensive library.
• GE Power Systems for donating a laptop computer.
• Microsoft for donation of software.

We should also like to thank the many clients who have made donations to support our work or given practical help.

PARTNERS

The majority of our clients are referred to us by the Jobcentre Plus in Bracknell or Reading: the cooperation we receive in working with these two Job Centres contributes much to the timeliness with which we are able to deliver a service to the newly unemployed in Wokingham Borough.

We are a partner in nextstep Berkshire. The Learning and Skills Council is the policy and funding body and has contracted with CfBT responsibility for day to day management and delivery of the programme in Berkshire.

Our association with nextstep Berkshire makes us part of a network of local providers of a wide range of information, advice and guidance services; consequently when we have a client with needs outside our competence we are well placed to refer that client to a local service provider who can provide the help required.

Users of this website might find it interesting to visit the Recruitment Links page on the nextstep Berkshire website for a selection of links to sites of value in finding a job.

Connexions offers an advice and guidance service from its offices in Milton Road specially aimed at the needs of 16 to 19 year olds.

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