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14/04/2023

Chris Luck CB MBE, CEO of Shaw Trust Group, has recently shared his thoughts about our Inspired by Hope art exhibition.As part of Shaw Trust’s 40th anniversary celebrations we hosted an art exhibition, Inspired by Hope, with more than 70 works created by children and young people we support through our children’s services and from colleagues with lived experience of care.Although a laudable project in its own right, why, did we do it?For us it epitomised Shaw Trust’s Homes to Inspire approach of

Homes and Horizons partnership recognised in prestigious awards

06/04/2023

Shaw Trust, Somerset Council and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust are celebrating after being shortlisted for the prestigious Municipal Journal Awards for 2023. The partnership is shortlisted in the ‘Innovation in Partnerships’ category for our trailblazing Homes and Horizons partnership. The Homes and Horizons project is delivering 10 family-sized homes for children as part of a new model of care for Somerset’s most vulnerable young people. It will also provide 20 specialist foster carers and a brand-new, therapeutic education service on two

Is flexible working here to stay?

04/04/2023

When the world locked down in March 2020 thousands of people started working from home. This opened up new ways of working, working from home and flexible working became the new normal.For many disabled people the chance to work remotely gave them an opportunity to re-evaluate their working lives; the need to travel to a place of work, prioritise their wellbeing or enter the jobs market.Now post-pandemic is flexibility one way the UK could close the disability employment gap? The Shaw

Shaw Trust’s response to Spring Budget

16/03/2023

Shaw Trust welcomes the Government’s planned investment in new programmes to support people into work and address economic inactivity – whether that is disabled people and those with long-term health conditions, parents facing significant childcare costs, or others.The Health and Disability White Paper is an important starting point for a much-needed conversation about how to make the system work for all. We look forward to engaging with Government and others in the coming months ahead of the planned rollout.The OBR

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What I’ve learnt as the mother of an autistic son.

15/03/2023

As a mother of a child on the Autism spectrum, I have spent many hours trying to learn and understand how to be able to best support my son and help him thrive.The hardest bit along our journey has been the unknown. Will he make friends? Will he get through school? Will he be able to live on his own? Will he be able to get a job? For a while, these questions were something that we needed to find

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Shaw Trust leadership 50:50 gender parity

08/03/2023

This International Women\’s Day, Shaw Trust is delighted to announce three new appointments this month – all internal promotions – that see equality at its most senior group executive level.Jenny Dillon (Managing Director for Specialist Employment Services), Jenny Woodrow (Managing Director of Employment and Skills) and Shelley Southon (Managing Director of Community Health and Well-Being) join the Group Senior Leadership Team.These appointments reflect Shaw Trust’s wider successes in closing the employment pay gaps experienced by women.This year’s gender pay gap

Colleagues encouraged to keep learning this National Apprenticeship Week

07/02/2023

225 colleagues are currently completing an apprenticeship alongside their roles at Shaw Trust. To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2023, we caught up with Lisa and Alfie who told us the reason behind starting an apprenticeship and how they are finding it.Why did I decide to start an apprenticeship?My line manager and I always discuss my personal development wants and needs in our quarterly reviews together. One of the key themes that kept reoccurring was my want to better understand the

New community orchard planted in Trowbridge

03/02/2023

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust and Shaw Trust are working together as part of a new collaboration to tackle climate change, restore nature and help communities in Wiltshire. The collaboration was launched recently with the creation of Sloegrove Orchard at Green Lane Wood nature reserve in Trowbridge, which was generously funded by Shaw Trust.A planting event was held to create the new community orchard at the end of January. Led by Green Lane Wood reserve manager, Matt Callaway, staff from both Wiltshire

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Sammy gets the confidence boost she really needed.

31/01/2023

In her own words, Sammy has shared her story with us from the moment she referred herself to Live Well Kent and Medway.\”I referred myself to Live Well Kent and Shaw Trust as I had been struggling for some time to get and keep work due to my autism and anxiety. After a particularly rotten year where I did eventually find work but couldn’t stay due to unfair working conditions, I felt more useless and depressed than I ever had

Are you missing out on talent?

20/01/2023

There is a huge pool of talent you are almost certainly overlooking. Unemployment is rising, while vacancies remain unfilled. Meanwhile this pool of talent could be driving your organisations and businesses forward. There are 16million disabled people in the UK, according to the DWP. The disability employment rate was 53.6% in Q2 2023, compared to 82.5% for non-disabled people. Yet 6 in 10 graduates with a visual impairment are not in full-time employment, and only 1 in 3 autistic graduates is in work. And