This project is for young adults to develop skills for work, further education and getting on with others
What is ELSP? Where & When Sign Up
This is a mentoring role to support people with mild/moderate learning disabilities and/or autism to develop skills to access further education, employment opportunities, and mainstream community facilities. We also run healthy living activities such as Sanjuro martial arts and football.
As a volunteer mentor you will be directly helping people to learn skills based on your own life experience including sourcing employment opportunities, living alone and travelling on public transport. Getting paid work and being independent are all things we often take for granted. For people in the ELSP group these things are hard to achieve without support.
So if you've ever written a CV or a shopping list, travelled on the tube or bus, budgeted for a weeks living costs or applied for a course, you would be just the sort of person we need.
Training
"I was really pleased to be able to share my skills and
experiences with the group. They really started to understand that
you get more than just wages from a job".
Bhavin (27, recruitment consultant)
If you would like to join us and volunteer in our Monday and/or
Friday group then please Sign Up below.
Please note:
● We'll be holding regular informal online interviews from
mid-April
● We'll be holding face-to-face training from
May with lots of date options
Sign Up Now! and we'll send you details later of how you
can:
● Book a 30-min informal online interview with us
● Send us info for your free DBS check
● Access our bite-size online training modules to get you
started
Please note minimum age for ELSP volunteers is 20 years old.
Please note that volunteers applying to work with us need to be
UK-based with a UK address - we are unable to support with
sponsorship for UK visas. Do please contact us once you're living
in the UK.
In-person Training
We'll be running a series of training sessions starting in
May; there will be a few different date options.
We'll ask you to come to one of these, and then our ELSP
co-ordinators will meet you again for an hour to brief you about the
way the ELSP groups work
