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Monday, 21 November 2011
Women volunteers for health
Platform 51 providing women with new and varied opportunities
Platform 51 have recently starting running the Women Volunteers for Health programme, that provides training and support to 400 women to become health volunteers in their own communities of St Helens, Doncaster, Nottingham and Wolverhampton.
5 August 2011
Life changing job coup for Platform 51’s Natasha
Five years ago, Natasha Watkins fell through the doors at Platform 51 Doncaster, drunk and just out of prison after 20 previous custodial sentences. In July 2011 her dreams come true when Belinda Grashion offered her a job as an Office Administrator.
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31 January 2011
There is nothing complicated about the offside rule Inequality in employment
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27 November 2009
Building career hopes YWCA Wolverhamton's young women don hard hats and get working
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6 August 2009
YWCA welcomes pay boost for apprentices Pay increase for lowest paid apprentices
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29 May 2009
Young women try out careers in construction Wolverhampton Homes hold women in construction event
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26 May 2009
Apprentices should receive national minimum wage Low pay commission releases 2009 report
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16 March 2009
More innovative solutions to drinking problems needed Girls should have more to do than get drunk, says chief exec
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7 February 2008
Apprenticeships: Now make them work for girls
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