Do-it is a national website that enables you to search for volunteering opportunities near you. You can search more than a million volunteering opportunities by interest, activity or location and then apply online.
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The Open University helps people to fit study around their life and be their future self sooner with OU’s flexible career-boosting courses. They are the leading university for flexible, innovative teaching and world-leading research in the United Kingdom and in 157 countries worldwide. Uniquely placed to understand the needs of part-time students, combining their learning while earning, our innovative, award-winning distance teaching credentials have seen over 2 million students receive an education, otherwise denied to them at campus-based universities.
The UK’s largest provider of skills, training and employment services. Learn Direct have helped millions of people gain new skills and transform their lives. Every day people up and down the country are learning new skills with Learn Direct. Some want to improve their skills to get a job or get a better job, others want to be able to help their children at school or to use the internet and enter the digital world.
Ruskin College offers residential adult learning to people of all ages and backgrounds. The College aims to provide education and inclusion opportunities to adults, particularly those who may be excluded or disadvantaged.
The UK’s largest voluntary sector provider of adult education in England and Scotland. The WEA runs educational courses across the country and priorities the needs of learners who are socially, economically or educationally disadvantaged. Many courses offer national qualifications.
City of Oxford College is a further education college in Oxford. It has two campuses – one in the city centre and one in Blackbird Leys to the south east of Oxford city. The College works with employers to design and teach programmes that are relevant for the jobs of today and tomorrow. The adult learning courses are varied and enable the learner to develop the skills, knowledge, resilience and confidence to succeed in their chosen subject.
Banbury and Bicester College (formerly Oxford and Cherwell Valley) has a wide variety of courses for adult learners who want to develop a new career path, go farther in their current field, or pursue a leisure interest.
Abingdon & Witney College now provides the Adult Learning courses for Oxfordshire that were previously under the auspices of Oxfordshire County Council. Some courses are free or at reduced cost for those on certain benefits.
Oxfordshire Employment Service are funded to offer support to anyone with long-term health issues or a disability to keep paid employment. They also provide supported internship opportunities, which are highly successful in supporting young people to enter work.
They have teams of dedicated employment advisers located across the county, who can help you to:
- Develop your work skills
- Look for employment
- Get over problems along the way
- Get a job and keep it
JobCentre Plus sites provide resources to enable jobseekers to look for work and offer information about training opportunities for the chronically unemployed. If you have a health condition or disability that affects your ability to work, you can get assistance and advice on returning to the workplace from a Work Coach.