MISSION:-
The thinkFOUND/thinkFOUNDATION is a Not For Profit work experience platform for young persons frustrated with a lack of meaningful work experience where they are given the opportunity to seek structured employment, a change in career and a work reference.
Our organisation is set up as a Social Enterprise designed to give opportunities to those furthest from the employment market. We aim to provide an individually tailored platform for people to learn skills, acquire qualifications and enhance employment prospects in a supportive, friendly environment.
We have three core elements:
thinkSOCIAL - work with local people in the community who have fallen out of the standard educational and work path in the local area.
thinkGREEN - impart knowledge and means to create a greater environmental concise.
thinkFUTURE - build partnerships with other like minded organisations to further our reach and success.
We provide our candidates opportunities to experience learning in different ways within a supportive setting and real working environment; contributing to a functioning furniture business.
We not only work on relevant and transferable professional skills including attendance, time management, individual and group working etc. but also break down the core principles around how to gain and sustain employment; advising on aspects such as the value of networking, online professionalism, how to write a CV, conduct an interview and delving in to what ‘professionalism’ actually means.
We offer guidance and support on a practical and theoretical level offering weekly classroom sessions as well as time to reflect, both in one to one sessions with mentors as well as group/ paired sessions with peers.
The candidates not only gain practical skills but work towards completing a set of professional competencies as well as personal goals. As a result, they are supplied with an individualised in-depth reference to pass on to future employees.
