ABOUT US

CDG is a leading welfare to work charity with nearly 30 years’ experience in helping those who are unemployed find and sustain employment.




Many of the people CDG supports have multiple barriers to employment including a lack of recent work experience, disabilities, health problems and a lack of relevant employability skills.

CDG supported more than 30,000 people on their journey into work during 2011 from 26 centres, and employs more than 300 staff in total.

CDG started delivering the coalition government’s flagship Work Programme as a prime contractor in London East in June 2011. In alliance with international welfare to work provider MAXIMUS, we are also delivering the Work Programme in London West and Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, and are a delivery partner to Avanta in Sussex.

In partnership with WISE Ability, CDG is a Work Choice prime provider in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, responsible for delivering employment support to people with disabilities.

The charity also works internationally and has formed an organisation based in Australia in partnership with BEST Community Development, a leading third sector welfare to work organisation in that country.

In alliance with international welfare to work provider MAXIMUS, CDG is a prime provider for the Work Programme in London East and, with alliance partner MAXIMUS, provides the Work Programme in London West and Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

As part of its charitable and public benefit, CDG launched the Expert Volunteer Initiative in 2010 and CDG Volunteers in 2011. The two initiatives provide further support to people wanting to find and stay in work by tapping into the expertise of people who would like to give something back.

Read our latest Annual Review as a Yudu online document or a PDF version.