Place Category: Employment
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At Jericho we seek out and engage people who experience significant barriers to being fulfilled, skilled and employed. We aim to help them overcome these barriers and gain relevant vocational skills to secure sustainable employment. We do this through providing real work experience in one of our social enterprise businesses combined with an individually tailored package of personal development support for our clients.
We work with a range of clients, including 16-24 year old young people, Survivors of Human Trafficking and ex-offenders
Our range of social enterprises provide safe learning environments for our clients while operating as commercial initiatives. Through these enterprises we offer a wide range of products and services and seek to serve the local community. All our projects contribute to the core Jericho vision and are underpinned by values of honesty, quality, value for money and care for the environment. Our Social Enterprises are as follows : Construction, Catering, Landscaping, Recycling, Wood Recycling, Print, Reusers, Cleaning, Co-working and First Aid Training.
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Address: 196-198 Edward Rd
Birmingham
West Midlands
B12 9LX
United KingdomPhone: 0121 647 1960 -
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Social Impact Declaration: Social-Impact-Declaration_Jericho-Foundation.pdf
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Social Impact Statements:
Social Impact Statements
The Social Enterprise Mark criteria includes a requirement that the applicant can demonstrate that social and/or environmental objectives are being achieved.
In support of this, new applicants and renewing Mark holders must submit Social Impact Statements that summarise their headline activities and achievements, helping show how they are striving to make a difference and stand up to scrutiny of purpose as a social enterprise.
Updated July 2016
1) Providing support to marginalised people to overcome barriers
The Jericho Foundation is a registered charity (No 1037084) which was set up in 1993 to seek out, engage with, and support people who are at the margins of society and who are experiencing significant personal and occupational barriers to employment, social inclusion and training, including:
- disabilities
- long-term unemployment
- homelessness
- alcohol or substance misuse
- criminal records
- low self-esteem or confidence
- mental health problems
- victims of human trafficking
2) Delivering supported training and work experience
We deliver a range of employment and training related programmes, but our core provision is the delivery of supported training, work experience and apprenticeship programmes within our 8 social enterprise businesses.
Over our 23 year history we have delivered a wide range of employment focused programmes to around 7,000 disadvantaged individuals.
3) Positively impacting on lives
We currently provide employment and individual support to a total of 34 beneficiaries across our range of Social Enterprises, which include Catering, Cleaning, Construction, Landscaping, Print, Recycling, Wood Recycling, Reusers and the Loft Workspace.
Through our Social Enterprises and our Ignition Programme, 553 peoples lives were positively impacted by Jericho in 2015:
- 72% of our apprentices progress to employment
- 42% of core staff originally came to us as clients/beneficiaries working in our Social Enterprises
Supporting evidence
