Employment support directory

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals; Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free; Cost per course
• Location: Countywide;
• Type: Training; Apprenticeships

Explore Activate Learning's diverse range of alternative education and training paths

• Age Range: 17-24
• Audience: Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free
• Location: East Surrey
• Type: Employment support
• Email: info@activeprospects.org.uk

The Aspiring Prospects Life Skills Programme for young people aged between 17 and 24, teaches life skills but uses the lens of employment and employability to do so. The aim of the programme is to support young people to establish a firm foundation of knowledge, skills, and experiences that will help prepare them for adulthood and the workplace.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Cost per course
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Employment support; Work experience; Placements; Jobs

At ASM we partner with, and empower, neurodivergent people in employment, and in finding work. We work with neurodivergent adults, employers, organisations and charities, offering a strengths-based, holistic approach when working together. We offer a range of services for both individuals and employers, including 1:1 services, training and consultancy, and group events.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals; Individuals with an additional need or disability; Businesses
• Cost: Free; Cost per course
• Location: Countywide; Weybridge
• Type: Training

Whether you’re growing your business, changing your career or just starting out, it all starts with skills.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals
• Cost: Free
• Location: Camberley; Surrey Heath
• Type: Employment support
• Email: camberleycentraljobclub@gmail.com

Camberley & District Job Club is a volunteer run organisation offering support and advice for those who are looking to find work. We meet on Mondays at High Cross Church, Knoll Road, Camberley from 10 to 12.30.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Carers
• Cost: Free
• Location: Nationwide
• Type: Employment support

If you're a carer, juggling work or looking to get into work, you are not alone. This support takes you through your rights at work, including flexible working, taking time off and protection from discrimination. It also explores what to consider when thinking about leaving or returning to work, as well as ways to boost your skills.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free
• Location: North Surrey; Camberley; Surrey Heath
• Type: Training; Employment support
• Email: lucybrown@disabilityinitiative.org.uk

DI's holistic approach can help clients to develop their prevocational skills, help navigate a pathway toward voluntary work, work experience or paid employment. This may include participation in educational and learning sessions, developing social or improving IT skills. We help clients to recognise their capabilities, build on abilities and transfer skills into new opportunities. DI works collaboratively with many organisations including the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) services and Surrey Welfare Rights Unit to support clients with benefits or financial issues.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Employment support
• Email: info@downs-syndrome.org.uk

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals; Individuals with an additional need or disability; Businesses
• Cost: Free
• Location: Countywide; East Surrey
• Type: Training

Boost your maths skills with Multiply. Our range of free numeracy courses can help you gain a qualification and build your confidence in using numbers at work or in everyday life.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals
• Cost: Free
• Location: East Surrey
• Type: Employment support
• Email: carla.shelton@ravenht.org.uk

We've got a range of employment techniques to provide the help and advice you may need to find work.

• Age Range: 18-24
• Cost: Free
• Location: North Surrey; Runnymede; Elmbridge
• Type: Training; Employment support
• Email: youthhub@brooklands.ac.uk

The Youth Hub service will include initial advice and guidance, coaching/ mentoring support, access to training courses, together with opportunities for professional development and employer engagement. The service will facilitate onward positive destinations for young people (18 -24) into training and/ or employment in the locality.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Employment support
• Email: employability@surreychoices.com

The Surrey Choices' Employment Works for Autism programme is designed to support autistic people to find or maintain paid work. The programme is delivered by Surrey Choices EmployAbility team who have over 25 years experience in supporting disabled people into work.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals
• Cost: Free
• Location: Nationwide
• Type: Employment support

At Fedcap we deliver a range of employability programmes and services that give people the best chance of getting back into work. We do this by taking the time to get to know jobseekers and understand their own specific needs.

• Age Range: 18-25
• Audience: Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Cost per course
• Location: Guildford; Woking
• Type: Training
• Email: info@halowproject.org.uk

Our aim is to support young people to build their own futures by nurturing their own independence, continuing education, and providing social/work experience.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Mentoring
• Email: enquiries@headwaysurrey.org

We support adults over 18 in Surrey with acquired and traumatic brain injury, and support their families. Headway Surrey ensures that when a person's life (and their family's) is turned upside down by brain injury, they get the help and support they need and deserve.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Cost per course
• Location: North Surrey; Elmbridge
• Type: Employment support

Here at Henrietta Parker Trust Charity, our aim is to support Adult Skills Development.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free
• Location: East Surrey; Reigate and Banstead
• Type: Employment support

Breaking down barriers for people with communication needs

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Training; Employment support
• Email: innovation@leonardcheshire.org

We are Leonard Cheshire and we provide support to people with disabilities to live, learn and work as independently as they choose whatever their ability. We offer a variety of services including residential and supported living, therapy suites, social activities as well as training. We believe in building a fairer, more inclusive society. One that recognises the positive contributions we all make.

• Audience: Individuals; Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free
• Location: Canalside; Maybury; Sheerwater; Woking
• Type: Employment support

Serving Maybury and Sheerwater, in Woking, Mascot’s projects and services help those facing deprivation and social exclusion, to help both the individual and the community.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals
• Cost: Free
• Location: Mole Valley
• Type: Employment support; Apprenticeships

Providing online and face-to-face advice, guidance and coaching to residents who are unemployed, facing redundancy or struggling to sustain paid employment. Working with local employers and training providers, we connect residents of all ages to training and education opportunities, opening access to new skills and sustainable employment in the community

• Age Range: 16+
• Audience: Individuals
• Cost: Free
• Location: Nationwide
• Type: Employment support

We believe that everyone deserves a good education, a safe and secure place to live, the right to be heard, and the chance to start again, with support from someone on their side.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals; Businesses
• Cost: Free
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Employment support; Jobs

From individuals using our free profiling tool to our affordable commercial products designed to support a wide range of employers, community groups, education, regional councils/LEPs and employability and careers initiatives. We have a whole range of services that will support everyone’s needs.

• Age Range: 16-17
• Audience: Individuals
• Cost: Free
• Location: Nationwide
• Type: Employment skills

Boost your confidence. Nurture new skills. Grow your resilience. Be a force for good. Make a whole new set of friends. When you join an NCS experience, you'll do all that and more. You can do NCS experiences online, in your local community, and away from home. Don't miss out, check them out!

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals
• Cost: Free
• Location: South West Surrey
• Type: Training
• Email: info@oakleaf-enterprise.org

The charity's aim is to transform lives through the provision of support, training and wellbeing activities, building new futures with adults managing their mental health. Programmes include Work-Related Training and Employment Support, Wellbeing Activities, Counselling Services and evening Safe Havens.

• Age Range: 16+
• Audience: Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free
• Location: Sutton; Uxbridge; New Malden
• Type: Work experience
• Email: enquiries@orchardhill.ac.uk

If you are looking for a way to kick start your career then this course is for you. WorkStart gives you the opportunity to gain work experience and qualifications. You will be able to work one-to-one with Job Coaches to get you on track to achieving your ambitions.

• Age Range: 16+
• Audience: Individuals
• Cost: Free
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Training

If you're 16 to 30 and want to gain experience, skills, training and confidence to help you into work, you've come to the right place.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals
• Cost: Free
• Location: Reigate and Banstead
• Type: Work experience; Employment support

Our Worker Scheme provides local unemployed people with skills and experience to help them gain future employment. Those on the scheme are guaranteed at least 25 hours' work for 26 weeks, are paid the Real Living Wage and are expected to do real work providing services for residents of Reigate and Banstead.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals; Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free
• Location: East Surrey; Reigate and Banstead
• Type: Employment support; Work experience; Placements; Jobs

A range of exciting, local employers are looking for skilled workers to join them. Find out more about opportunities within the borough, signposting to ways to upskill, and tips to secure your next dream job.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals
• Cost: Free
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Employment support

The Restart Scheme will give Universal Credit claimants who have been out of work for at least 9 months enhanced support to find jobs in their local area.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals
• Cost: Free
• Location: Nationwide
• Type: Employment support

We improve the lives of people severely affected by mental illness through our network of local groups and services, expert information and successful campaigning. Our goal is to make sure everyone severely affected by mental illness has a good quality of life.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals
• Cost: Free
• Location: Mid Surrey; West Surrey
• Type: Employment support
• Email: mid&westsurreyes@richmondfellowship.org.uk

Richmond Fellowship's Mid and West Surrey Employment Service specialises in providing support for people living with or recovering from mental ill health to find paid employment, voluntary work, education and training or to retain their current employment.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals
• Cost: Cost per course
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Employment support
• Email: adultlearning@surreycc.gov.uk

Business, employability and digital skills courses for adults

• Age Range: 16-24; 25+
• Audience: Individuals
• Cost: Free
• Location: Spelthorne
• Type: Employment support; Training

The Spelthorne Jobs & Skills Hub is a service dedicated to all Spelthorne residents to support them in finding suitable work including training or education.​​No matter what age you are or what stage you are at in life, you can visit the hub to receive support and guidance to help you.

• Age Range: 16+
• Audience: Individuals; Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free
• Location: East Surrey; Reigate and Banstead
• Type: Employment support; Work experience; Placements; Jobs

Start is a new digital careers platform for young people in secondary and further education which provides information, advice and tools to support students as they explore and plan for their future career. The website is being rolled out in schools and colleges across the borough.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals; Individuals with an additional need or disability; Businesses
• Cost: Free; Cost per course
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Training

Surrey Adult Learning provides inclusive opportunities to promote learning, health and wellbeing. We inspire people to achieve their potential. With seven dedicated adult learning centres in North and South West Surrey, plus nearly a hundred community venues and an extended online programme, we can meet the needs of learners in and around Surrey.

• Age Range: 14+
• Audience: Individuals; Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free
• Location: Woking; Stanwell
• Type: Employment support; Mentoring; Training

Our unique mentoring and skills training helps families, vulnerable young people, and low-skilled adults.

• Age Range: 18-25
• Audience: Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Location: Woking
• Type: Training
• Email: chelcie.wreford@surreycaretrust.org.uk

If you are aged 18-25, you live in the Woking area, and are struggling to find employment, our Steps 2 Work staff and volunteers may be able to help you build your confidence and skills to take up employment opportunities.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals; Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Employment support

We offer a range of employment and learning support which covers all aspects of an employment journey starting with our getting ready for work projects, day to day working practices, career guidance, job search, CV writing and interview preparation. For those in work, we provide job coaching and ongoing support for both an employee and employer. We provide support with everything from volunteering opportunities to work experience to support with paid work. We work with a wide range of people in Surrey and its surrounding areas, including disabled people and autistic people and sensory and mental health needs. We will help our customers to look for vocational projects, supported internships and employment.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Employment support
• Email: employability@surreychoices.com

SOLD's employability programmes will enable learners to be one step ahead when entering the workplace, providing organisations with a real reason for employment.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals; Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free; Cost per course
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Training; Employment support

Each year we help between 600 and 800 people return to learn to gain new skills, qualifications and employment. We rely on a mix of income streams, including generating funds through our Bike Project social enterprise and securing grant funding for projects.

• Age Range: 18-25
• Audience: Individuals
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Training
• Email: rossdefoe@thechangefoundation.org.uk

A multi-award winning training for work programme that uses sport and intensive mentoring to support young people who've been impacted by crime, violence and inequality. This programme supports young people into secure education, employment or training opportunities.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Ex-Forces
• Cost: Free
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Employment support

The Forces Employment Charity provides life-long, life-changing support, jobs and training opportunities to Service leavers, veterans, reservists and their spouses, partners and children, regardless of circumstances, rank, length of service, or reason for leaving.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Location: Bookham; Mid Surrey
• Type: Training; Work experience;
• Email: info@grangecentre.org.uk

We support people with learning disabilities to lead independent and fulfilling lives

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free
• Location: Mid Surrey
• Type: Employment support
• Email: clairedawson@sunnybanktrust.org

Our Futures programme supports young adults with learning disabilities to gain independence. ​ We tailor our programme to each individual, supporting them on issues such as employability and more.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals; Businesses
• Cost: Free
• Location: Surrey Heath; Camberley
• Type: Employment support
• Email: theworkshop@surreyheath.gov.uk

The Workshop offers people living in Surrey Heath free careers advice. Our friendly advisors are on hand to help you improve your employment skills, discover new career paths and signpost you to support. We can help you consider your options, make an action plan and support you in achieving your goals.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals
• Cost: Free
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Employment support; Training
• Email: WorksForMe@pocklington-trust.org.uk

Works For Me is our free service dedicated to supporting blind and partially sighted individuals in their pursuit of paid employment or a change of career. Our personalised approach caters to your unique needs and our team of employment experts is here to offer one-to-one support.

• Age Range: 18+
• Audience: Individuals; Individuals with an additional need or disability
• Cost: Free; Cost per course
• Location: Countywide
• Type: Training; Apprenticeships

We offer a range of courses specifically designed for adult learners looking to progress in their career, retrain, gain qualifications for higher level study or to discover a hobby.