Open the Slough door to your future
Slough Borough Council’s Opening Doors Project is offering Berkshire women a chance to get back into work and raise their aspirations.
The Slough project, which is funded by the ESF, helps women get back into work after taking a break as either a carer or a mother, and offers free courses and advice to get them into the work place.
Set up in April 2006, the project is based in Slough at the Thomas Gray Centre, with an enterprise team who design and deliver fun and free workshops and offer free life and career coaching to increase women’s personal awareness and self confidence.
The vocational workshops are run in bite-sized introductory courses, ranging from leadership for women and assertiveness, to jewellery making and first aid.
The certified skills courses are on offer are starting up your own business, web design courses and basic food handling curses to start a catering business.
Myra Ahmed, Slough Opening Doors coordinator, said: “The project encourages women to be enterprising and empowers them by helping them take charge of their own future.
“Many women have been out of the workplace due to motherhood or being a carer and this is a great way forward for them to get back out into the world of business.”
Commissioner for social inclusion Cllr Derek Cryer, added: “Opening Doors is a great project for women in the county who would like to get back into work.
“It will give them the opportunity to gain the confidence to either go out and work for a company or build their own enterprise.”
In order to access this comprehensive service, women must reside or work in the Berkshire area.
For further information, please contact Opening Doors on 01753 476614.
Slough Borough Council