New club creating jobs over network breakfast
BUSINESSES will be joining forces next week to help tackle unemployment in Milton Keynes.
The first meeting of the Milton Keynes Business Breakfast Club will be held at Jurys Inn, Midsummer Boulevard, in the centre of the new city on Wednesday (February 15).
Employers Coca Cola, Grupo Konecta UK and Buckingham Foods will be networking with Milton Keynes Council at the event organised by public service provider A4e, from 8.30am. Other businesses in the new city are invited to attend.
Steve Turner, A4e business leader, said: “By bringing together all the interested parties, we hope to build a unique resource network to identify recruitment vacancies within the Milton Keynes area, benefitting both local business and our customers.”
The focus of the event will be to show how customers on the government’s Work Programme, being delivered in Milton Keynes by A4e, are ready and able to fill the recruitment needs of local employers.
Milton Keynes Council leader Andrew Geary and the authority’s inward investment team is due to speak on the subject of corporate social responsibility.
Event organiser Hayley Wilson, an A4e employment adviser, says she is hopeful the meeting will lead to benefits for the wider community.
“I born and bred in Milton Keynes and I feel quite passionate about A4e helping the community,” she said, “We have been working closely the economic development team at the council to look at ways we can help residents in several areas identified on the regeneration plan. Many of our customers are from those areas so A4e is keen to focus on what we can do to improve their lives.”
A4e customer Richard Woodcock, 29, will talk about the harsh blow dealt him by redundancy before he found a job at NHS Direct through the Work Programme. Another customer Darren Hall, 37, will describe how he has regained the confidence he lost over a year without a job and how his new approach to job-hunting is starting to see results.
Among other organisations who have been invited to attend to showcase their work are MacIntyre, a national charity that provides learning, support and care for more than 1000 children and adults with learning disabilities, and The Food Bank in Milton Keynes, which works closely with A4e to assist disadvantaged customers.
A4e also wants to encourage employers to join a ‘swap-it shop’ to give away recyclable office supplies and equipment they don’t need to other organisations and schools.
Employers who would like to attend the business breakfast club should contact Hayley Wilson on hwilson@A4e.co.uk or on 01908 256670
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