About us

Clean Slate Training & Employment was established in July 2006 and launched on 31 May 2007. We’re a social enterprise supporting the efforts of people who face barriers to the labour market.

At grass roots, we employ long-term unemployed people who may have a history of homelessness, mental ill-health, offending, or drug or alcohol misuse. We also engage with refugees, lone parents and those returning to work after raising a family, as well as any long-term unemployed people who may have lost confidence and don’t know where to start.

Our workers are keen to start employment and to build a future for themselves. We simply offer structured, practical, inspiring opportunities to make this happen.

Alongside paid work, we have employment search facilities and job preparation programmes helping individuals to present themselves in the best possible light and to start work with confidence.

Research and consultancy

Clean Slate also help organisations who are developing their own worklessness programmes. We are able to lend our experience and expertise to develop projects and, in particular, enterprises that are helping to create opportunities. We can work at a strategic level or on the ground, we can even directly with long term unemployed people who have their own business ideas.

We work with local authorities and other networks delivering research on the subject and have a growing body of evidence about the aspirations of unemployed people and the barriers they face. In 2009, we published Aspiring to More, which reports on the findings of the research into the aspirations of workless people and the barriers they face, commissioned by Bath & North East Somerset council. We are also on steering groups for projects to meet the needs of people who are unemployed with histories of homelessness, mental ill-health, and offending.