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IT IS ENCOURAGING TO KNOW THAT WHAT WE STARTED INTUITIVELY IS BECOMING RECOGNISED AS BEST PRACTICE. WE HOPE TO SEE GOOD HELP PRINCIPLES MAINSTREAMED. TO DO THIS, FUNDERS NEED TO JOIN THE DOTS AND INVEST IN THESE APPROACHES.
- Jeff MitchellManaging Director, Clean Slate
AT LAST THERE IS A NATIONAL PROJECT THAT IS DRIVEN BY AND DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE LIKE US. THE WAY WE WORK IS AS IMPORTANT AS THE WORK WE DO. FINALLY WE ARE BEING UNDERSTOOD AND RECOGNISED FOR WHAT WE ARE DOING.
- Tracy FishwickManaging Director, Transform Lives
WE REALLY NEEDED GOOD HELP TO COME ALONG. IT HAS HELPED US BETTER EXPLAIN WHY WE MATTER, AND GIVEN US EVEN MORE CONFIDENCE TO STAND UP FOR WHAT WE ARE DOING.
- Clare WightmanCEO, Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire

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We’re Hiring: Looking for a Programme Manager to join the Good Help Team

By Flynn Devine / May 13, 2021

We're looking for a talented and knowledgable Programme Manager to join our team!

Good Help in Employment Support: What’s Happening Already?

By Emma Kernahan and Jane Mansour / March 31, 2021

A small snapshot of the many employment support practitioners inside and outside the mainstream UK employment system who acknowledge the social determinants of work and specialise in providing Good Help

Recognising the social determinants of work: How mainstream employment support must change to meet the COVID unemployment crisis

By Emma Kernahan and Jane Mansour / March 15, 2021

"In the economic climate we are facing, inadequate employment support from our mainstream services means that millions may be left permanently disadvantaged in the labour market"

For many, vaccination is the start of the journey, not the end: Good Help in the fight against Covid

By Flynn Devine / January 15, 2021

How do we support the most vulnerable, not only with the vaccine, but life after it?

Good Help in Rochdale: The Process Explained

By Jo Weir / December 2, 2020

Good Help in Rochdale is a two-year reform and integration project designed to help the borough respond to crises created by the Covid-19 pandemic

GOOD HELP IN ROCHDALE: SEVEN REASONS WHY THE PROJECT IS WORKING IN THE ERA OF COVID

By Helen Chicot / December 2, 2020

“If it was as simple as just calmly moving people on from shop doorways and they wouldn’t return, obviously we’d do that” Mark Reynolds

UNIVERSAL CREDIT AND GOOD HELP

By Emma Kernahan / October 22, 2020

"In twenty years in the voluntary sector, I have never seen hope listed as an outcome. But in the business of making change, it is the only currency that counts."

TO TRULY EMPOWER STUDENTS, FE MUST LET GO OF THE CINDERELLA NARRATIVE

By Lou Mycroft / October 21, 2020

Haunted by the soubriquet ‘Cinderella sector’, further education occupies an uneasy no-man’s-land between schools and universities in society’s thinking