CDG is a leading back to work charity with more than 30 years’ experience in helping those who are unemployed find and sustain employment.
Many of the people CDG supports have multiple barriers to employment, including a lack of recent work experience, disabilities, health problems and a lack of relevant employability skills.
CDG supported more than 26,000 people on their journey into work during 2012, from 22 centres, and employs over 300 staff in total.
CDG started delivering the coalition government’s flagship Work Programme as a prime contractor in London East in June 2011. In alliance with international welfare to work provider MAXIMUS, we are also delivering the Work Programme in London West and Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, and are a delivery partner to Avanta in Sussex.
In partnership with WISE Ability, CDG is a Work Choice prime provider in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, responsible for delivering employment support to people with disabilities.
As part of its charitable and public benefit, CDG launched the Expert Volunteer Initiative in 2010 and CDG Volunteers in 2011. The two initiatives provide further support to people wanting to find and stay in work by tapping into the expertise of people who would like to give something back.
CDG merged with Shaw Trust in September 2012, and the new charity will build upon the successes of both organisations.
Read our latest Annual Review as a Yudu online document or a PDF document.