Local Business Is Leading The Way To A Healthy, Working Future.

Added by Love Business East Midlands | 22 September 2016

The Fit for Work Team has been recognised as one of Leicester’s outstanding local businesses at the 2016 annual NICHE Business Awards. Selected from a total of 450 nominations, the team earned the title ‘Highly Commended’ under this year’s health and beauty category - a success which follows a national win at the inaugural SME awards earlier this year.

 

“We all move so fast, it’s easy to forget just how important work can be in terms of building confidence, esteem and a real sense of self. We want to make sure that people and businesses across Leicester are given this chance. To be recognised by awards such as NICHE and SME shows us just how important this is. It spurs us on!”

Simon Calvert, Managing Director, The Fit for Work Team

The Fit for Work Team specialise in providing ‘hands-on’ solutions delivered to local people and local businesses across Leicestershire. Evolved from the original ‘Fit for Work’ service pilot, today the organisation’s services have grown to include the one-to-one support of unemployed individuals. Known as ‘Bridging the Gap’ this pioneering services helps individuals to overcome health and social barriers that are stopping them from accessing work. In 2013 the organisation launched a specialist workplace wellbeing programme for enterprises across the county - a programme that was recognised by the SME ‘Standout Service’ award for it’s role in the SME community.

“Some days when I just used to think I don’t want to wake up. She gave me reason to believe again: you are going to get past this”.

CLIENT BENEFICIARY, ‘Bridging the Gap’.

Currently, 47% of clients that complete their journey with the team’s flagship ‘Bridging the Gap’ service move into either voluntary work, training or paid employment. In addition to this, their award-winning Workforce Wellbeing programme has now reached 100 companies across the East Midlands – a step that is benefitting more than 4,000 individuals.

It’s a solid foundation on which to build, and it’s one that is giving people across the county the chance to realise their full potential and to live a healthy, working future.

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