• Are you over 40?
• 6 - 24 months unemployed!
• Living in Edinburgh?
• Looking to change your situation?
• No computer skills?

Nisus Scotland have a free computer training course available to anyone who meets the above criteria.

This is a 12-week part-time course in IT training and personal development delivering the European Computer Driving Licence and is designed to get you back into the workplace.

In addition to the training we can also help with:

• Travel costs (this will not effect your benefits)
• Childcare costs (depending on your circumstances)

If you would like further information, please call Erica or John on 0131 554 5656 or email
erica.simpson@nisusscotland.org.uk

We are currently recruiting for courses running throughout 2003 and 2004.

Leonard Cheshire is the UK’s largest disability charity. The Leonard Cheshire Workability project aims to break down barriers that can exist for disabled people in the search for work.

The project provides disabled people with the skills and support needed to gain access to training and employment. As well as computer equipment, Workability participants will be given Microsoft software and will be offered IT training leading to nationally accredited qualifications.

The project is open to residents of the UK who are aged between 19 and 55 years. Applicants must be unemployed disabled people, who, by reason of their disability, have been hindered in their search for work.

This is an exciting opportunity for eligible applicants to reap the joint benefits of FlexIT and Workability. This will enable students to access IT and employability training, free computer equipment for home use, and the support of both organisations.

Workability Project Officer Doug Ross is confident about the new partnership.

”I am sure this is a relationship that will prove beneficial to our respective organisations and ultimately, to our mutual clients”