Support

Career advice & coaching

The Eastside Primetimers Foundation offers both free and fee based career transition advice and coaching services. Our advice and guidance page features links to free guidance and resources, or your can sign up to join one of our free Information Event webinars. We run Information Events using virtual platforms such as Microsoft Teams as well as face to face.

Tailored career coaching

If you are looking for bespoke individual career coaching, the person who delivers this service is Ruth Cane. Ruth is a qualified and highly experienced coach with a background in HR and Organisation Development in the public and social sectors. If you would like to know more about this service you can email Ruth at ruthc@ep-uk.org.

Other organisations

Here are some other specialists focused on the social sector you should look into:

On Purpose

On Purpose’s Associate Programme is aimed at individuals who want to work in the social sector. It provides a combination of work placements and coaching, plus access to their community of like-situated individuals and social sector supporters.

Charity Works

Graduates who want a career in the charity sector are mainly presented with internships as their means of building a CV and network. Charity Works goes further and runs graduate training schemes. Interested?

Charity Fast-Track

If you’re looking for your first charity job, considering a career change or at the start of a charity career, Charity Fast-Track may help you to train yourself in your spare time. Charity Fast-Track is building a suite of blended learning products to transform the charity workforce from the inside-out; readying world-changers to do things differently.

Other types of career transition

Now Teach

How does a career transition into teaching appeal to you? Now Teach was set up specifically for this task and is a beacon of how career reinvention can work successfully.

Career Shifters

Career Shifters help bright, motivated people who feel stuck in the wrong career to find and move into more fulfilling work. Career Shifters is on a mission to make fulfilment at work the norm, not the exception. They aim to use non-traditional careers guidance methods to help individuals drawing from the worlds of entrepreneurship, psychology and design thinking.