Supporting new careers with Building Heroes
Our work in the UK also includes partnerships that help people build new careers.
We work with Building Heroes, a charity supporting ex-military personnel as they move into careers in construction. Through training, practical trade skills and employment support, Building Heroes helps people develop the skills and experience they need for their next step.
We’re pleased to support this work by helping provide access to the tools and equipment needed as people train for a new career.
It’s another way that practical skills, the right tools and opportunity can come together to help someone build a working future.
Our UK Kit Programme
The UK kit programme aims to help remove financial barriers that prevent individuals entering skilled trades, by providing quality refurbished tool kits to UK trainees who may otherwise struggle to afford them.
Keeping good tools out of landfill and getting them into hands that can make good use of them has underpinned our work for over 45 years. Our training projects in Africa are thriving, however the evolving nature of how we equip them means we are not required to ship as many tools from the UK.
Donations of tools to us have not reduced though, and as such we have a regular stock of quality hand tools that are refurbished and ready to be put to work.
To support progression into trades employment – while also extending the life of tools that would otherwise go to waste – we are developing partnerships with UK organisations that deliver trade skills training, and providing their trainees with their own trade-specific tool kits.
The programme also aims to support wider UK priorities around addressing construction skills shortages, improving access to vocational training and increasing participation from underrepresented groups in the construction workforce.
Find out moreUK Programme Projects
Building New Careers: Our Partnership with Building Heroes
It’s a simple idea: take useful tools that still have plenty of life in them, give them a thorough refurbishment, and help put...
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