Our Employment and Skills Team provides personalised guidance, support, and practical help for any SNG customer looking to access training or find work.
We’re proud to have achieved the internationally recognised Matrix Standard in 2025, a mark of quality for the advice and guidance we offer. It’s our way of showing our commitment to helping you take the next step with confidence.
Whether you’re searching for a job, want to gain a qualification, or need help planning your career, we’re here for you. Email supportforyou@sng.org.uk or call 0300 5000 926 and ask for the Employment and Skills team.
- Finding the right job for you
- Support with your CV
- Completing successful application forms
- Improving your interview skills
- Building confidence and motivation, and goal setting
- Training and qualification opportunities
- Customer grants to help you access training and work opportunities
- Access to IT equipment and digital skills support
- Help with self-employment, business start-up and business resilience
Yes, we can also work with you to help you find better work or move your career forward. For some customers this can mean:
- Increasing their earnings through better pay or more hours
- Finding more secure work (for example, moving away from zero hour or fixed-term contracts)
- Finding work closer to home to reduce travel costs or to fit around caring for children or family members
- Changing to a sector where there are good career progression opportunities for higher paid or higher skilled jobs
If you’d like to get in touch to see how we can help you, then please email the team or call 0300 5000 926 and ask to speak to the Employment and Skills team.
Customer grants
As part of our Thriving Communities strategy, we offer grants so SNG customers can access training, skills and employment opportunities, whatever the work goal.
To apply, you need to be working with one of our Employment and Skills Team, so please send them an email for more information.
Employment and skills programmes
We work with a range of partners to create, fund and deliver projects that help our communities access employment, skills and training opportunities.
Skills 4 Work Basingstoke is a completely free, 1-2-1 employment support and coaching programme. It’s open to anyone living in Basingstoke, including non-SNG customers, who are aged 16 and over, not in any paid work and have the right to work in the UK.
The Green Employment Pathway is a completely free, 1-2-1 employment support and coaching programme for SNG and non-SNG residents in Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole. The programme supports people to access advice, guidance, vocational training, work and better work related to Green Skills roles and organisations.