WORKMATCH
Workmatch is delivering three high quality services
within one organisation. Helping disadvantaged
people to achieve greater independence and quality
of life through financial, occupational and
healthier well being in Hereford, Herefordshire
Formed as a charitable
company in 1995, Workmatch provides training
and support for disadvantaged people to
help them prepare for and find places in
the ordinary work environment.
To do this it was necessary to provide work
environments within which to train. Thus
'projects' were developed. Each now runs
as a business within Workmatch but is required
to trade commercially to help fund the overall
charity.
There are currently four businesses, known
collectively as Bizmatch. |
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Always connected to
the world of the disabled , Workmatch worked
closely with the advice service for disabled
people, DIAL.
In 2003 Workmatch and the advice service,
by then known as ABLE, merged. ABLE retains
its identity within the company.
Social Firms are market led businesses set
up specifically to create employment for
disabled people. Workmatch is the first
business to achieve full Social Firm status
in Herefordshire and Worcestershire and
indeed is one of only a few in the West
Midlands. |
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