Carolyn Milburn, Author at Moving On Tyne & Wear

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22 July 2021

Our Urban Garden volunteering begins!

We previously announced that MOTW participants were given the sole responsibility of maintaining The Gatekeepers Garden, a biodiverse pocket garden…

14 July 2021

Step into Volunteering

Our Programme Administrator, Adrianna, recently spent 3 weeks volunteering in Southern Spain. Find out more about what she got up to, what she learnt, and what she has come away with by watching this fabulous video she created. [video width=”1920″ height=”1080″…

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24 June 2021

“I can get a job”

Read the story behind the ad campaign – how one woman’s outlook was transformed from not believing she could, to knowing that she CAN get a job. We recently welcomed a participant, who, for the most part of her long…

young lady with downs syndrome looking at her computer screen whilst sat at a table

09 June 2021

Going Above and Beyond to help our Participants

At Moving On Tyne & Wear, we support people on their employment journey, whether that is finding and funding training courses, helping people secure work placements and apprenticeships, or supporting people to search for and apply for roles of…

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25 May 2021

Communicating with you, in a way that suits you.

For over a year the Government guidelines have dictated how MOTW Navigators could meet and speak to their participants. After a year of lockdown and enforced remote contact, we are now in the position where we can offer our participants…

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25 May 2021

Training & Volunteering Workshop

The second workshop in our 2021 series focused on Training and Volunteering. We welcomed Sam Laing from System Group and Hannah Barugh from our charity partner VODA, and they spoke about their services and how they could help our participants.

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18 May 2021

The first MOTW Staff Workshop of 2021

Back in 2019 MOTW organised a series of workshops where various guests would speak to our staff about their organisations and the services they provide, detailing how they could help our participants and support our Navigators. The feedback was…

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29 April 2021

MOTW Staff Training on the Work Star

Since 2003 Triangle Consulting Social Enterprise have been working with organisations to develop over 30 Outcome Stars, which are evidence-based tools for both supporting and measuring change. One of these Stars is the Work Star which has been designed…

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14 April 2021

MOTW and the Digital Champions Outreach Programme

Albert recently joined Moving On Tyne & Wear after taking early retirement from his job in the ship building industry. He’d spent many years working as a steel fabricator and travelled to multiple countries as part of his job,…

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25 March 2021

Achieving the inevitable, not the impossible

Edward joined Moving On Tyne & Wear having never had a proper job, thinking he never would. But we didn’t agree… Edward graduated from University in 2018 and had been actively volunteering ever since, but he was finding it difficult…