CIRENCESTER ASHCROFT WORK CLUB

WEEKLY UPDATE - UPDATED AT 18TH JANUARY 2022 (with updated next 4 weeks’ sessions)

(Written as usual from home in Stratton, Cirencester)

The work club will continue to operate on most

Mondays and Tuesdays – 12.00 to 2.00

(but not on Bank Holidays).

We are now usually open for one-to-one face-to-face support at these times. We also provide one-to-one phone and online support at these times too.

We can also offer some group support sessions by Zoom for jobseekers, in partnership with Cirencester Jobcentre. Ask your Jobcentre Work Coach for an invitation to these sessions, and you can contact me for further information about what the sessions cover. The dates of future sessions can only be obtained on request as the sessions are by Zoom invitation only.

You can contact me at the usual work club times by :-

- Face-to-face (Covid rules will apply, including face masks) : come to the front door of the Cirencester Ashcroft Centre and wait, but only if the work club pavement sign is out showing that we are open for face-to-face meeting (and not temporarily closed because of Covid rules);

- Email : workclub@ashcroftchurch.org.uk;

- Phone or text : 07951439302;

- Sending a message through the Cirencester Ashcroft Work Club Facebook page.

We can then have a chat face-to-face, by phone, by message, or by video link if we can set one up, and I will do my best to help you.

You can also contact me at other times and we will then agree an appointment time to have a proper conversation.

Specific opening times over the next few weeks (later opening times for the period up to the middle of JUNE 2022 are in the Events section/page of the Cirencester Ashcroft Work Club and Cirencester Ashcroft Church and Centre Facebook pages (Facebook only lets us select a maximum of 52 future dates for an event at the time it is first published)):-

Monday 24th January 12.00 - 1.30 (FACE TO FACE, PHONE & ONLINE - NOTE SHORTENED SESSION - VOLUNTEER HAS UNAVOIDABLE APPOINTMENT)
Tuesday 25th January 12.00 - 2.00 (FACE TO FACE, PHONE & ONLINE)

Monday 31st January 12.00 - 2.00 (FACE TO FACE, PHONE & ONLINE)
Tuesday 1st February 12.00 - 2.00 (FACE TO FACE, PHONE & ONLINE)

Monday 7th February 12.00 - 2.00 (FACE TO FACE, PHONE & ONLINE)
Tuesday 8th February 12.00 - 2.00 (FACE TO FACE, PHONE & ONLINE)

Monday 14th February 12.00 - 2.00 (FACE TO FACE, PHONE & ONLINE)
Tuesday 15th February 12.00 - 2.00 (FACE TO FACE, PHONE & ONLINE)

(For those who are interested, I normally highlight the opening times for the next 4 weeks. However sometimes I increase this when they include a break, in part to make sure that the last week I show is one when we are open. This is to emphasise that any closure is only temporary. The work club is a key part of Ashcroft’s mission and outreach project until May 2024. After that date I intend to continue to run the work club indefinitely, whether or not part of a larger project.)

Andy Rickell, Cirencester Ashcroft Work Club Manager

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