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Ellingham’s successful “Setting Your Sites” project has been shortlisted for a prestigious Charity Times Award, in the Best Use of Technology category.

A new phase of the Future Jobs Fund has been announced.

Congratulations to the seven Redbridge College students who have recently completed a 9 month work preparation programme with Ellingham.
All seven students have worked towards 3 qualifications at Entry Level 2 – Personal & Social Development, Employability and Personal Progress.
A group of Ellingham clients were given the honour of having their art work displayed at the prestigious Tate Modern gallery.
A group from Ellingham this week joined around 500 others in celebrating Learning Disability Week in Ray Park, Redbridge.
People with learning disabilities from Redbridge, Waltham Forest and surrounding boroughs, joined other community groups, local schools and members of the public at the all day festival, which included a wide variety of sessions including dance performances and music throughout the day.

Ellingham are very pleased to announce that Rosemary Clark has joined us as Manager of the Skills & Enterprise Unit and has already begun working on an exciting re-launch.
The Skills and Enterprise Unit provides work related opportunities including a range of practical activities for adults with learning disabilities to learn and develop skills for employment and independence. Development and progression routes are promoted for clients to gain experience, enhance skills and embed learning.
Another month and another retirement! On 19th March long serving Angela Comely celebrated her retirement from Ellingham after more than 20 years working for the organisation.
On February 17th Peter Wager, Manager of Ellingham’s Skills Development Unit celebrated his retirement with a party at Ellingham Road.
Colleagues and service users past and present came together along with members of Peter’s family to give Peter a good send off and help him celebrate his 65th birthday.
On Friday 11th December Ellingham held a special event for Jobcentre Plus staff to showcase the various new and innovative approaches we are currently taking to improving employment opportunities for our clients.
Ellingham are pleased and proud to have once again retained the Two Tick disability symbol in recognition of our commitment to good practice in the employment of people with disabilities.

Ellingham are creating new jobs in Redbridge for unemployed people with learning disabilities, as part of a new DWP initiative.
- A person with a learning disability.
- Aged 18 and over.
- Unemployed and claiming Job Seekers Allowance for over 6 months.
Ellingham are one of 4 voluntary sector organisations working on a new initiative which is called Get Training!
We will be working with Redbridge Institute of Adult Education to deliver free training in Redbridge and neighbouring boroughs to small and medium-sized businesses, social enterprises and the self-employed.
The training on offer will lead to recognised qualifications and can be delivered either in-house or on an employers’ premises.
This month saw a long serving member of Ellingham’s team depart as Lorraine Edney retired after two decades of service.
The occasion was marked by an event held on 31st October at Head Office which was attended by staff members past and present as well as a host of representatives from Jobcentre Plus, and other organisations that have worked with Lorraine over the years.
Chief Executive Chris Bailey and Margaret Willet, one of Ellingham’s Directors thanked Lorraine for all her efforts working with the employment team. Everyone at Ellingham wishes Lorraine a happy retirement.
Fast Forward is a new NOCN Level 1 Diploma that Ellingham are delivering at Bourne Court.
In October Ellingham began working with a group of students from Redbridge College on a brand new employment project called Headways.
The project will last for the entire academic year and will target young people with learning disabilities who are in their final year at the college on special needs courses. The objective is to work towards bridging the gap between education and employment.
Our research shows us that without projects such as this, young people with learning disabilities are likely to finish college without achieving the positive outcome of entry into employment or further training towards employment.
Participants will visit Ellingham two days per week on an intensive work preparation course, whilst at the same time still attending college and working on their qualifications. Ellingham’s staff will therefore complement the staff from
Setting Your Sites is an exciting new multimedia project which specifically focuses on preparing young people with learning disabilities for the transition from education into employment.
From October ‘09 Ellingham will be working with learners in their final year at 10 colleges across East London, delivering a personal development/employment preparation programme,


Ellingham are thrilled that our first client has gained paid employment with London Underground having participated in a successful work experience initiative.
Not long after meeting David, we soon discovered that he has an exceptional knowledge of the transport network that operates in and around London and the South East. If anybody has any travel queries then David is the man to ask – you will get your answer and a few interesting travel facts thrown in for good measure.

6 of our clients are proud to have successfully completed our new Chippies course in partnership with Redbridge Institute of Adult Education.

The Click Start project was officially launched at a special reception at the House of Lords on July 14th.


Ellingham’s Editorial Team are continuing to make a fantastic contribution to the Click Start project’s success.

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As part of our ongoing involvement in the ELLDEC initiative, Ellingham has helped to roll out the first Raising Our Game training programme.

Ellingham's horticultural training programme Growing Futures has proved to be a huge success.

Ellingham have begun work on an exciting new project to provide accessible information to people with Learning Disabilities across East London.

Ellingham has once again been recognised by Investors In People. Investors In People is a standard which helps organisations transform their business performance and it has grown to be the UK’s leading people management business improvement standard.
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