ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR FOR CAREERS DEVELOPMENT GROUP

Welfare to work charity Careers Development Group today held its Annual General Meeting.

The charity has moved from strength to strength during the year and bolstered its reserves with a sound financial performance whilst helping 27,000 people on their journey into work.

This strong performance was despite the fact that the trading year was a challenging one, taking onto consideration the policy changes in the welfare to work sector with the New Deal and Flexible New Deal being replaced by the new Work Programme.

The year culminated in being appointed the prime contractor for the delivery of the Work Programme for London East along with other contracts across the country.

Careers Development Group is now up and running with the Work Programme in London East, and in our strategic partnership with Maximus Employment and Training in London West and Hampshire and we have jobseekers coming through the door, and we are starting to help.

Our charitable purpose is crucial to the work we do and being one of only two third sector prime providers (the only one in London) means we also have a responsibility to lead by example in the third sector as a whole.

We support the Work Programme as it gives the charity far more freedom in the way it helps people, including bringing in volunteers, and also because it allows the charity to help people stay in work.

Roy O’Shaughnessy, Chief Executive of Careers Development Group said:

“Careers Development Group has had a great year, creating a strong foundation for the challenging years we have ahead as we begin delivering the Work Programme.

“The Work Programme is a great opportunity to show how charities like Careers Development Group can have a major impact in helping people into work and helping them to stay in work.”

Raoul Pinnell, Chair of Careers Development Group said:

“Careers Development Group is an organisation with a charitable heart and a commercial brain. Despite the challenging economic background, both organisational performance and quality of service have improved, which is testament to the commitment and skill of all those who work for CDG and all those that the organisation has had the opportunity to support.”

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Further information
Further information from CDG head of communications Mark Brooks on 07766 197 727 or at mark.brooks@cdguk.org.

View CDG's Annual Review 2010/2011 as a Yudu online document or a PDF version.


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