About Clean Slate
What We Are Here To Do
We want to see a world where people can provide for themselves and their family, where society addresses everyone’s needs and where it does not cost more to be poor. It should provide fair opportunity for all so anyone willing and able can access employment.
Our job is to do everything possible to enable people to improve their financial wellbeing. Everyone needs to be able to manage their money well, find work and access every facility to help them do so, including online services.
Clean Slate, in partnership with Quids in!, is re-writing the rulebook on helping low income households to become better off. We are proudly different by:
Clean Slate Training & Employment is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company in business to:
Our job is to do everything possible to enable people to improve their financial wellbeing. Everyone needs to be able to manage their money well, find work and access every facility to help them do so, including online services.
Clean Slate, in partnership with Quids in!, is re-writing the rulebook on helping low income households to become better off. We are proudly different by:
- Explaining to claimants, tenants and low-income earners what’s really going on, what to be cautious about and what opportunities exist
- Recognising and helping people to see their own abilities to help themselves and each other
- Focusing on the present and the future, not the past, and respecting people's need for something personalised and of practical benefit to them now and into the future
- Valuing people as integral to how we engage others from similar backgrounds and activating people as community activists by making them central within our enterprise
- Being motivated by social justice, tackling poverty and inequality and giving people a voice
- Making sustainability, independence, people’s trust and creating a real difference core to our work
Clean Slate Training & Employment is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company in business to:
- Provide skills and training to people at risk of or affected by poverty and/or unemployment, and the people who work with them, so everyone can provide for themselves and their family and get involved in their communities
- Promote ways for people to ‘future-proof’ their finances, engage with digital life
- Create paid work and other opportunities for benefit claimants, social tenants and low-paid workers as stepping stones towards reaching their potential
How we do it
Clean Slate delivers support and training ‘in the room’ through a mix of events where people can develop their knowhow and local drop-in sessions.
- We have opened a number of Quids In Centres that are not physical places but local activities that operate from libraries, community centres, housing offices, and children’s centres, for example
- We recruit, train and employ people who attend our events to help others like them – so jobseekers help jobseekers and claimants help other claimants because they understand the challenges people face
- To support these advisors and the people we want to help, Quids in! magazine provides information on stretching and growing a limited budget through its magazines and guides, email service and website quidsinmagazine.com
- Everything we do is about helping people with their money skills, finding work and getting online.
Work with us
If you are interested in Clean Slate's training for your organisation or clients we would love to hear from you.
We are also keen to hear from any organisation that would like to partner with Clean Slate for their area.
Contact us here.
We are also keen to hear from any organisation that would like to partner with Clean Slate for their area.
Contact us here.
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