By engaging with us and becoming an Employer Partner, it proves that you understand our change to recruitment and, you also share our belief that it makes sense financially and culturally to ‘employ the character, teach the skills
Matt Wood, Founder
Become a Partner
Partnerships are vital to everything we do, without them we would not be able to support our participants into employment.
What is a Woodmor Partner?
As a partner, you will work with us to change traditional recruitment practices and make a difference to employment prospects for marginalised communities by offering your skills, knowledge and connections.
You can partner with us in two different ways:
As a Provision Partner: this means you will work with us and provide amazing individuals for our programs who, in turn, can gain confidence, increase their self-esteem and develop their employability skills.
Employment Partner: engage with the change that WoodMor is inciting and employ someone from an untapped, diverse talent pool who can demonstrate their employability skills through their journey with us and their Me Movie.
Each role is vital to our functioning as a foundation.
Benefits of being a Provision partner:
Benefits of being an Employer Partner:
Who are our existing partners?
How to become a partner
Step one:
Interested in working with us? Register your interest by visiting our Contact us page and we will be in touch.
Other ways to partner with us:
If you want to support the Woodmor Foundation you can become a Friend; someone who can help us in other ways. You can donate, follow us on social media, connect us to your network, help us to raise awareness, provide us with some advice. Or offer us something for free or highly discounted. Like our very own personal Trainer, Brian Wright.
Frequently asked questions
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What are the costs in getting involved in Woodmor?
As a Provision partner- ZERO- there’s nothing to pay for you or the participant. Our funding model is based on fundraising as we are a C.I.C so we will be raising funds for our organisation and for yours to support our cause.
As an employment partner- There are no recruitment fees, although we may ask for a donation towards our C.I.C.
As a Friend – Its whatever you can give.
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How long will I be involved in Woodmor for?
We hope that our relationship with you is ongoing.
Specifically, as a provision partner this will last as long as our woodmor programmes, which tend to be from 6-12 months.
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How much of my time will I need to give ensure my service-user is onboarded with you successfully?
We work collaboratively with you to ensure that your service-user is matched to a suitable challenge. This will not be overwhelming as we will work closely with you. As the participant develops on our programmes we will still be in contact and will have regularly check-ins if required.
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As an employer, will I need to dedicate a lot of time to the WoodMorers onboarding?
This will be no different from an employee you have recruited in a more traditional way. After our participant has grown on their challenge and demonstrated their employability skills, they will be an asset to your team. There may be required reasonable adjustments but these will be in line with your standard HR policies.
Following a brilliantly inclusive recruitment process, Matt offered an apprenticeship role to one of my clients and went ABOVE AND BEYOND to ensure they felt welcome, remained engaged during lockdown and had a clear and smooth induction and support plan.
Nik Galanias
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If you are interested in becoming a woodmorer, participating, facilitating, partnering or employing - we would love it if you would get in touch!
