Q&A with Claire Cook
In honour of Neurodiversity Celebration week, our proprietor Claire, sat down to discuss her experiences with neurodiversity!Can you tell us about your experience with Neurodiversity and your diagnosis?I identify as an autistic woman with a formal diagnosis of ADHD...
We’ve been shortlisted for the 2022 SEYH ‘Social Impact’ Award!
We are one of 3 organisations that have been shortlisted for this award for all our hard work over the last year! We have been considered for this due to our work during lockdown delivering support packages of food, and other supplies to our students to keep them...
Avela Home Service sponsors minibus to support our young people
Thanks to the support of Avela Home Service who generously donated £5000 towards our Mobilise project. We now have a mini bus which helps to transport our students to and from our Liverpool facilities. This is making a dramatic difference to the lives of our young...
The Parliamentary Review Highlighting Best Practice
"Schools around the UK are, unfortunately, too willing – sometimes too keen – to overlook or exclude these students. Seeing this, I and my company, Employability Solutions, decided to provide a full-time alternative education for this marginalised group of people" -...
The Power of Giving – Our CEO Appears in Woman & Home
Claire Cook, 37, lives in Liverpool with her two children, Lucia, 11, and Samuel, five. She is chief executive of Employability Solutions, alternative education centres in Liverpool and Huddersfield, which she founded with her business partner, Nadia, in 2012 to help...
MAD (Making a Difference) in Kirklees
Our Volunteer, Mandy Jamieson, in the Big Issue
Mandy Jamieson, a mother whose teenage son lost his life in a stabbing has spoken out against the senselessness of knife crime as his killer is sentenced. Click here to read more.