NOVEMBER 2023 GLENFIELD GAZETTE online
The village magazine for Glenfield in Leicestershire, UK.
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<strong>NOVEMBER</strong> <strong>2023</strong> <strong>GLENFIELD</strong> <strong>GAZETTE</strong><br />
LIVING WITHOUT ABUSE CHARITY<br />
LWA RECEIVES<br />
£49,437 FROM JOBS<br />
22 COMMUNITY<br />
INVESTMENT FUND<br />
LWA IS<br />
DELIGHTED<br />
to announce<br />
receipt of<br />
nearly £50k<br />
from the Jobs<br />
22 Community<br />
Investment<br />
Fund. Jobs 22,<br />
primary provider<br />
of employment services to those in East Central<br />
England via the Restart Scheme, made its first<br />
three awards to local organisations, with LWA<br />
benefitting from this initial funding round.<br />
The Community Investment Fund was established to<br />
support local projects that create sustainable changes<br />
for individuals and their communities. It is important<br />
that community organisations such as LWA tackle the<br />
issues faced by residents in their local area and provide<br />
the necessary support to individuals to help them move<br />
closer to the job<br />
market.<br />
LWA will use these<br />
funds to sustain<br />
their volunteer<br />
programme which<br />
supports survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence.<br />
It will help 95 volunteers improve their employability and<br />
access to paid work through ongoing training programmes<br />
and mentor support. The LWA<br />
volunteer programme positively<br />
impacts survivors of abuse and<br />
helps the organisation to meet<br />
the demand for support.<br />
Debbie Hughes, LWA Chief<br />
Executive: “This funding will<br />
significantly and positively<br />
impact our staff, our services<br />
and most importantly our<br />
clients. Our aim over the<br />
next 12 months is to provide<br />
70 volunteering placements<br />
and train 25 new volunteers.<br />
Through this support we can<br />
give timely, specialist support<br />
to over 500 domestic abuse<br />
survivors. One of our greatest<br />
outcomes has been the<br />
number of clients who go on to<br />
volunteer, then take paid roles<br />
in ours or other similar services.<br />
We even have past clients who<br />
have worked their way up to<br />
senior positions. The value of<br />
our volunteer service and the<br />
influence this funding will have<br />
cannot be underestimated.”<br />
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