Volunteer Development Program (Project Esperanza)

Volunteer development Program: a short term placement within Project Esperanza to help participants gain local experience and references that are crucial for future paid employment opportunities.

This is tailored for people living in Edinburgh who face social isolation and those who are structurally excluded from the work force. We ensure that they get volunteer opportunities within the organisation that enable them to gain mentoring and workplace skills whilst working alongside their peers in our activity spaces thereby building pathways into employment. Funding and work status permitting we aim to recruit people from this programme into paid employment at Project Esperanza.

People from socially and economically excluded backgrounds, migrants with families who are unemployed, have limited access to employment and employability resources and experiencing in-work poverty, parents who are experiencing the child protection system, parents who arrive on the Sponsorship programme (COS), people who are socially isolated, other migrants parents that fall within NRPF and New Scots.