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WISE Ability’s main business activity is delivering quality employment support, skills development and community development services to disadvantaged members of the community through a range of initiatives. These initiatives include mainstream and discretionary contracted provision, the development of social enterprise and community investment projects. Primary customer groups include unemployed job seekers, long term and generational benefit claimants, economically inactive individuals with health conditions or disabilities, lone parents, ex-offenders, individuals from under-represented communities and specific areas of high deprivation.
WISE Ability is a UK based charity currently delivering Work Choice as a sub-contractor to Shaw Trust and due to start delivery of the Work Programme, as a sub-contractor to Serco in South Yorkshire. In 2009 WISE Ability created a special purpose vehicle with Careers Development Group (CDG) which is now delivering Work Choice as Prime Contractor in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
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WISE Ability welcomes Kay Sutton to its Board of Directors
WISE Ability would like to announce that Kay Sutton has accepted the offer to become a Voluntary Board Director of the UK based charity. Kay will leave the role of Managing Director at the beginning of August however she will continue her relationship with the company in both an advisory role to the organisation and as a Director involved in the governance and strategic direction of WISE Ability. Read more here.
WISE Ability receives ‘ethical’ business award
The Social Enterprise Mark is the brand for social enterprises. Launched 1st February, 2010, the Mark identifies businesses which meet defined criteria for social enterprise, and consumers will recognise that businesses displaying the Mark are trading to benefit people and planet. Read more here.
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Archive Stories
WISE Ability relocates to Birmingham
WISE Ability shortlisted for FND phase 2
WISE Ability - opens 5th October 2009
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