Debt problems, benefit troubles and hunger: How a job club is helping a community get back on its feet

20/2/2019

A job club has 500 reasons to celebrate after reaching a milestone in helping people find the foot on the career ladder.

The Peterlee Job Club is one of nine that operate across East Durham, giving people a place to make job searches and update CVs in venues much closer to home and are less formal than Government-funded centres such as jobcentres and colleges.

To mark its achievement of reaching 500 attendees, Police, Crime and Victims’ Commissioner for County Durham and Darlington, Ron Hogg, visited to present a certificate to commemorate the landmark figure.
The Job Club is part of the Stop Poverty In East Durham (SPIED) project, which is managed by East Durham Trust.

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We help the communities of the former district of Easington which is made up 20 distinct areas, most of which are former Pit villages that continue to be hugely affected by deprivation following the closure of the Pits.

We run a wide range of projects to help the community fight disadvantage including food parcels, telephone befriending for the socially isolated, helping people in the downward spiral of debt, supporting people to get the benefits they deserve, providing holiday activities with food, getting the disengaged engaged with the arts and more.

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Debt problems, benefit troubles and hunger: How a job club is helping a community get back on its feet

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