As young women graduate from our programmes, we want to ensure you have ongoing support for:

EMPLOYMENT/TRAINING

Cambridgeshire Gov UK: your learning journey

Offers a range of courses and learning opportunities for adults aged 19+, enabling adult learners to gain skills which will lead them to meaningful, sustained and relevant employment, or progress to further learning.

Form the Future

Connects young people to a world of career possibilities, helping individuals find their route through education into employment, and provide employers access to their future talent.

Get My First Job

Offers a whole new way to find apprenticeships, degree apprenticeships, work experience and graduate opportunities to get ahead. Connects individuals with the best employers, colleges, providers and universities.

Inspire2Ignite

Empowers young people aged 12-24 through innovative programmes, fostering personal growth and skill development, preparing youth for real-world challenges.

King’s Trust

Helps people aged 11-30 to build confidence, get a job or launch a business.

National Careers Service

Provides careers information, advice, guidance and helping to make decisions at all stages in your career.

Richmond Fellowship

Provides advice and guidance for adults with mental health problems seeking to return to employment, volunteering or training. Offers individual advice sessions as well as workshops in employment skills (application forms, CV, interview techniques etc).

WEA

Courses that empower adults by bringing great teaching to local communities across England and Scotland.

YKTO: start your own business

Equips you with the right skills to launch your own business, putting your career into your own hands.

 

CARE LEAVERS SUPPORT

GOV UK: support for care leavers education

Whether you’re still in care or have already left, help is available. Find support for money and benefits, housing and accommodation, work and employment, health and wellbeing, education and training, and unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people.

 

HOUSING

Centre 33

Supports young people aged up to 25 in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough with their emotional and practical needs.

YOUNG ADULT CARERS

Caring Together

Supports unpaid carers of all ages in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk, from young carers, to young adult carers, to parent carers and adult carers.

 

FINANCIAL/INDEPENDENCE SUPPORT

Buttle UK

Delivers intentional grants for young people, whether they’re dealing with crisis, instability, trauma, or multiple disadvantages. These grants step in early, preventing things from getting worse and helping young people move forward with confidence.

Cambridge Reuse

Helps those on low income or benefits to buy furniture, white goods and other household items. Enables individuals to buy and donate recycled furniture and household goods, helping us to save the planet and help those struggling financially. Also provides volunteering opportunities.

Cambridge Solidarity Fund

Redistributes wealth among the residents of this city, helping those in financial crisis.

Citizens Advice Rural Cambs – money skills

Provides information, advice and one-off practical support and assistance in times of exceptional pressure (subject to eligibility). If you qualify, you may be eligible to receive help in the form of white goods, furniture, decorating and supermarket vouchers.

COSARAF – Hardship Grants

Supports those who cannot afford an education and encourages entrepreneurship for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, as well as developing their skills and taking advantage of opportunities that would not be available to them otherwise due to background.

Give Your Best

An online platform to browse (free) clothes for your first job or to smarten up your wardrobe.

The Besom in Cambridge

Provides (free) furnishings including white goods and moving-in packages to help people settle into their first home.