£50,000 awarded to Beating Time in partnership with The Recruitment Junction

£50,000 awarded to Beating Time in partnership with The Recruitment Junction for their ‘Inside Job’ initiative that helps find jobs for people while they are serving their sentences.

This project will benefit over 400 inmates based at HMP Birmingham and Hewell (Redditch); HMP YOIs, Brinsford (Wolverhampton) and Swinfen Hall (Lichfield) – all in the West Midlands – and HMP Northumberland, in the north east of England.

“Post prison unemployment is another punitive sentence, to poverty and dependence. It’s a waste and wrong, on lots of levels. Inside Job, is an effective employment programme, thought of and run by people who have served, and others who are still serving, prison sentences. Being able to develop and deliver our own bespoke qualification in employment for people with convictions, thanks to City and Guilds, will enable us to disseminate our unique knowledge base, grow and get more people into work.” – Heather Phillips, CEO / Founder, Beating Time

“We are delighted to extend the hugely successful ‘Inside Job’ model to the north east – it’s absolutely the missing piece of the jigsaw needed to complement our community work placing people with past convictions into employment, and it’s fantastic to have a proper qualification to build around this, which will surely enhance the numbers of folk finding and sustaining jobs and moving on with their lives.” – Beverley Brooks, Director / Founder, The Recruitment Junction