Partner with us

The Salvation Army is always eager to work with partners in delivering funded employability programmes.

We have an excellent reputation for performance delivery and have delivered on each of the flagship national programmes across the UK in recent years.

We also work with local government to provide bespoke employability schemes within the communities that need it most.

Why Partner With Us?

As one of the top 10 UK charities, we would love for you to work with us. Here's some of our credentials:

We work across communities

• The Salvation Army has a foothold in communities all over the world, enabling wide-ranging partnerships to tackle homelessness and modern slavery, and to provide for vulnerable people.
• We have delivery centres in 650 locations throughout the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland

We have years of experience

• We have 153 years of experience working with the vulnerable, socially excluded and economically inactive – the people least likely to engage with government programmes.
• We have a proven track record, with over 25 years of experience delivering specialist employment services in the UK, the USA, Australia and New Zealand.

Our expertise and networks 

• We are ideally placed, with specific expertise in helping the long-term unemployed - particularly those facing complex personal issues - to find and sustain employment.
• We employ a variety of modern approaches to tackling long-term unemployment, including one-to-one mentoring, confidence-building programmes, skills assessment, life skills coaching, social reintegration, digital training, money management and personal awareness training.
• We have wide-ranging opportunities for work placements within our own organisation, and an extensive network of employment and training partners.

Our ways of working

• We hold the ISO9001 and Matrix accreditations, certifying the quality of our delivery model 
• We are praised by our partners for our reliability, excellent communication, and adaptability.

Our Partners

UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF)

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund People and Skills investment priority, has been put in place to help reduce the barriers some people face to employment and support them to move towards employment and education, supporting local growth.

West of England Combined Authority – Mayoral Priority Skills Fund

The Mayoral Priority Skills Fund provides flexible grant funding to meet current priority skills gaps in the region. These priorities have been identified through robust intelligence gathered through delivery of previous and existing programmes, data, reports and gaps identified through Skills Connect. This funding will support skills initiatives based on the priority skills gaps and will provide funding for activity until March 2025. Funding is provided from both Mayoral Priority Skills Fund (MPSF) and part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF).  More information can be found here: Mayoral Priority Skills Fund - West of England Combined Authority.

Skills Connect provides an online directory of skills, training and workforce development support across the Bristol, B&NES and South Glos areas.  More information can be found here: Skills Connect.

Serco

Serco Employment, Skills and Enterprise enables individuals to improve their life chances and social and financial circumstances by training, upskilling, supporting with apprenticeships, and helping them into lasting employment.

The Institute of Employability Professionals

IEP is the only professional membership institute for the employability profession. It represents its members to key influencers and sets the standards for the profession. IEP members have a commitment to their profession and committed to supporting the professionalisation of the employability sector.  They are leading experts in their field.

The Department for Work and Pensions and Job Centre Plus

The DWP is responsible for welfare and pension policy and is a key player in tackling child poverty. It is the biggest public service delivery department in the UK and serves more than 20 million customers..

Job Centre Plus is part of the Department for Work and Pensions. It provides services that support people of working age from welfare into work, and helps employers to fill their vacancies.

Shaw Trust

A national charity which supports disabled and disadvantaged people to prepare for work, find jobs and live more independently.

GOALS UK

A Community Interest Company (CIC) and social enterprise with over 20 years' experience and a proven track record of helping providers become more RESILIENT and achieve successful outcomes through innovative and highly motivational training programmes.

Local Government

Local government funds are used to improve employment opportunities in the local communities and to help to raise standards of living and address the needs of the community.  It aims to help people fulfil their potential by giving them better employability skills and better prospects.

Partner Testimony

“Employment Plus UK are a fantastic example of the role the third sector can play at the forefront of welfare delivery under the Work Programme. Through a strong governance structure that ensures they have the required focus needed to run a successful operation, whilst also drawing on the wider, strong values of the Salvation Army, the team at Employment Plus have been a pleasure to work with.

In my view, they have successfully made the transition from being a specialist provider into an end-to-end provider and this is reflected in month-on-month performance improvements. Always focused on going the extra mile for the hardest-to-help, their proactive, practical and can-do approach is resulting in a successful model that has transitioned some of our hardest to help customers into sustainable employment. We have also been impressed by their wider engagement with our other supply chain partners through our best practice forums and monthly meetings.”

- Chris Peel, MD, JobFit

“The employment service based at Darbyshire House Lifehouse in Liverpool is a great initiative which is clearly making a difference to the local community. It’s been fantastic to visit today and meet some of the service users.

“I had no idea The Salvation Army operated this kind of service. As cabinet member for Skills and Employment I understand the value of working with the third sector in this way and would love to explore more opportunities for working more closely.

“We advocate a person-centred approach and it’s great to see this being put into action by The Salvation Army here."

- Councillor Lana Orr, Liverpool City Council Cabinet Member for Skills and Employment

Contact

Freephone: 0800 652 4276​ 

Email: employmentplus@salvationarmy.org.uk​​