Hackney Employability Club

Maxine Collins, Programme Coordinator of Create Your Future in Hackney, leads a conversation about how CYF is helping older BAME women. Other voices belong to Deolinda, Jennifer, Rick and Sandra.

Create Your Future on the WWW: http://hcvs.org.uk/create-your-future/

We record in our workspace training room, with working background noise. It's not supposed to sound like a studio. 22 September 2017.

Gini Simpson and Christian Ahlert deliver a progress report on their UnAge project, brilliantly piloted at Hackney Employability Club. Other voices belong to Folu, Joyce, Kate, Ken, Mercy, Rick and Walter.

We record in our workspace training room, with working background noise. It's not supposed to sound like a studio. 14 July 2017.

By the way — this is the second, slightly shorter edit of this episode.

A community conversation led by Alexander Stevenson – with Joyce, Leonard and Rick – about Blume.Life (“Flexible work for older people, Great results for everyone. Over 50? Under 150? Interested in flexible working? Blume is the place for you”) – a community-rooted startup.

Web sites mentioned: https://blume.life (Blume).

We record in our workspace training room, with working background noise. It's not supposed to sound like a studio. 13 July 2017.

A community conversation with Amar, Joyce, Karen and Rick – about being entrepreneurial, in self-employment or to catch an employer.

Web sites mentioned: http://www.drugandalcoholeducationservices.co.uk/ (Drug and Alcohol Education Services), https://www.discogs.com/ (Discogs).

We record in our workspace training room, with working background noise. It's not supposed to sound like a studio. 29 June 2017.

A community conversation with Stevie Back from Benefacto – and from Employability Club - Rick, Tom, Bintou. We are talking about how Benefacto's employment volunteering scheme has helped older people in Hackney since April 2014.

Web link: Benefacto ( http://benefacto.org )

We record in our workspace training room, with working background noise. It's not supposed to sound like a studio. 15 June 2017.

An unscripted community conversation between Lady Esther (a.k.a. Sistah 2C) and Kamye Miessen — who both have personal experience of zero-hours contracts in the UK.

We record in our workspace training room, with working background noise. It's not supposed to sound like a studio. 25 May 2017.

An unscripted community conversation led by Lady Esther (a.k.a. Sistah 2C). We are talking about our experiences in the job market – and our feelings about those experiences.

We record in our workspace training room, with working background noise. It's not supposed to sound like a studio. 18 May 2017.