Ivan's pathway to work

The ‘Cleaning Academy’ has been one of One Academy’s most successful recent training and employment support projects, just ask Ivan.

Ivan was being supported by Crisis, the charity for people experiencing homelessness, when he was offered a place on one of our day courses designed to provide people with the knowledge and confidence needed to apply for and be offered work in the cleaning industry.

He successfully passed the one-day course and so impressed our training team that he was later offered an interview. Successful at interview, Ivan has since been working for Churchill Cleaning at the Stratford Centre.

“I was desperate to find a job, not only for the money but for my sense of self-worth,” say Ivan. “When you have experienced having no fixed abode and no job, the world feels so bleak.”

You can read more of Ivan’s story on the Churchill Group’s website.