OUR HISTORY

CDG was initially established as Wandsworth Training Agency in 1982. Youth training, funded by government and Wandsworth Borough Council, was the main focus. In 1989 CDG started to deliver employment services contracts, then known as job clubs, which eventually became programme centres.




By the late 1990s, changes in government thinking towards the welfare to work agenda led to the further development of CDG. In 1998, CDG became a New Deal provider.

CDG entered the new century with a major expansion with New Deal contracts. These were effective across London, alongside expansion into Northamptonshire. Specialist provision also started with ESOL (English for speakers of other languages), job brokerage and ESF training at Heathrow airport.

2006 saw further massive growth when CDG won four New Deal prime contracts plus ESF in the east of England, working in partnership with other providers.

CDG is now one of the leading welfare to work charities, with some 300 staff and supported over 30,000 people in 2010 from 26 centres.

In 2011, CDG became a prime provider to deliver the  Work Programme in London East in its own right and in London West and Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight as part of its strategic alliance with MAXIMUS Employment and Training.