Services

• Shaw Trust is a national charity that helps people facing disadvantage into work, gain skills and take control of their futures.
   

• Shaw Trust is the largest third sector contractor for Department for Work and Pensions.
   

• They deliver both mainstream (Work Programme) and specialist (Work Choice) employment support schemes across Britain and help over 50,000 people per year. It also helps people gain skills and into work via a wide range of other activities including education and skills contracts, 49 shops and a national volunteering programme as well as health and social enterprise projects.
   

• Shaw Trust employs nearly 1,600 people across over 200-plus locations. We are supported by over 600 volunteers and deliver contracts for eight major funding agencies including the European Social Fund, the Department of Work and Pensions and the Big Lottery Fund. 
   

Vision, mission and values:
Shaw Trust is a national charity that helps people facing disadvantage to find work, gain skills and take control of their futures.

Their vision is for:
A society in which everyone has the opportunity for employment, inclusion and independence.

Their mission is to:
Deliver services for people at disadvantage so they can gain life and employability skills in order to live more independently, secure sustainable employment and actively contribute to family and community life.

To educate and influence society to remove barriers and create opportunities for those at disadvantage; to build supportive communities and ultimately, a more inclusive society.