Directory
The Joined Up for Jobs directory lists organisations delivering employability and related services in Edinburgh. You can search for organisations listed the JUfJ directory by name, keyword, service type, postcode, or main client group.
Breaking Barriers
The programme, led-through ENABLE Works enables young Scots who have a learning disability and additional barriers to education and employment to attend a leading and world-class business school based at Napier, achieve an accredited qualification, a...
Service Type
Employability and Education and training
Client Group
Disability and Health Conditions
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19, 20-24, and 25-29
Pipeline Stage
Stage 2 / Barrier Removal, Stage 3 / Vocational Activity, and Stage 4 / Job Matching
Outreach offered
No
Bridge 2 Business Edinburgh
Bridge 2 Business offers a range of services, including 1-2-1 mentoring and employability programmes, to inspire, connect and support college students into, and through enterprise. The programme offers first-hand opportunities for students to experie...
Service Type
Employability and Education and training
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19 and 20-24
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement, Stage 2 / Barrier Removal, and Stage 3 / Vocational Activity
Outreach offered
No
Broomie Space Station
The project
Food catering & hospitality training that will help you move towards, or find, sustainable employment in the food, catering and hospitality sector.
Service Type
Employability and Education and training
Client Group
Disability, Criminal Convictions, and Health Conditions
Target Area
South west and All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-50, and 50+
Pipeline Stage
Stage 2 / Barrier Removal, Stage 3 / Vocational Activity, and Stage 4 / Job Matching
Outreach offered
No
Business Gateway Edinburgh
Business Gateway Edinburgh offers expert support and guidance to new and existing businesses. Through Business Gateway you can access: Free advice from our experienced business advisers to help you start a business or find new ways of doing bus...
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-50, and 50+
Outreach offered
No
Canongate Youth NOLB Activity Agreement Hub (City Centre)
No One Left Behind Activity Agreements Hub - City Centre
No One Left Behind (NOLB) Activity Agreements support young people aged 15.5-19 (or up to age 26 for those with multiple barriers as stated in the NOLB Emerging Best Practice Guide) who are not ...
Service Type
Employability
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19 and 20-24
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement
Outreach offered
Yes
Cashback to the Future
Impact Arts are running free weekly drop-in sessions for young people aged 14-19 from across Scotland. Young People can drop in to the free sessions and explore creativity, imagination and making through digital and visual art.
Whatever your level of...
Service Type
Employability, Health / Mental Health, and Education and training
Client Group
Care experienced, Disability, Homeless / at risk of homelessness, LGBT+, BME Groups, Criminal Convictions, Lone Parents, and Health Conditions
Target Area
North east, North west, South east, South west, and All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement
Outreach offered
No
CashBack to the Future: Free arts workshops for 12-19 year olds
These free workshops are open to any young people aged 12-19 who are looking to try something creative. Currently delivered digitally, every young person will receive an Art Pack full of materials delivered to their door. The Art Pack will mean they ...
Service Type
Education and training
Client Group
Care experienced, Disability, Homeless / at risk of homelessness, Substance misuse, LGBT+, BME Groups, Criminal Convictions, Lone Parents, Health Conditions, and Long term unemployed
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement and Stage 2 / Barrier Removal
Outreach offered
Yes
CHAI (Community Help and Advice Initiative)
The No One Left Behind (NOLB) Activity Agreement Hub works with young people aged 15.5-26yrs at Stage 1 and 2 of the employability pipeline.
Young people are offered 1-1 support and the opportunity to attend a weekly employability hub where they would...
Service Type
Employability, Education and training, and Volunteering
Client Group
Care experienced, Disability, Homeless / at risk of homelessness, Substance misuse, LGBT+, BME Groups, Criminal Convictions, Lone Parents, and Health Conditions
Target Area
South west
Age group served
16-19 and 20-24
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement and Stage 2 / Barrier Removal
Outreach offered
No
Childcare Connector
DO YOU NEED A CHILDCARE CONNECTOR? - We know what a challenge it is for parents seeking employment, education or training to find suitable childcare to make that progression possible. Identifying and paying for nursery places, afterschool clubs, chi...
Service Type
Employability, Health / Mental Health, Education and training, and Money / Benefits
Client Group
Disability, Lone Parents, Health Conditions, and Long term unemployed
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-50, and 50+
Pipeline Stage
Stage 2 / Barrier Removal and Stage 3 / Vocational Activity
Outreach offered
Yes
Citadel Connect
Citadel Connect is an innovative training and volunteering programme based at the Citadel Youth Centre. The programme allows the young people to gain new skills, have new experiences, become active members of communities and make a positive differen...
Service Type
Employability, Education and training, and Volunteering
Client Group
Care experienced, Disability, Homeless / at risk of homelessness, LGBT+, Criminal Convictions, Health Conditions, and Long term unemployed
Target Area
North east
Age group served
16-19
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement, Stage 2 / Barrier Removal, and Stage 3 / Vocational Activity
Outreach offered
No
Citadel Futureheads Employability services
The Futureheads Employability project supports young people aged 16 – 21 into employment, education, training and voluntary work. Our weekly Careers Café assists unemployed young people and school leavers with job searches, college and job applicatio...
Service Type
Employability, Education and training, and Volunteering
Client Group
Care experienced, Homeless / at risk of homelessness, LGBT+, Criminal Convictions, Lone Parents, Health Conditions, and Long term unemployed
Target Area
North east
Age group served
16-19 and 20-24
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement, Stage 2 / Barrier Removal, and Stage 3 / Vocational Activity
Outreach offered
No
Citadel Youth Centre NOLB Activity Agreement Hub (North East)
No One Left Behind Activity Agreements Hub – North East
No One Left Behind (NOLB) Activity Agreements support young people aged 15.5-19 (or up to age 26 for those with multiple barriers as stated in the NOLB Emerging Best Practice Guide) who are not...
Service Type
Employability, Education and training, and Volunteering
Client Group
Care experienced, Disability, Homeless / at risk of homelessness, LGBT+, BME Groups, Criminal Convictions, Lone Parents, and Long term unemployed
Target Area
North east
Age group served
16-19 and 20-24
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement
Outreach offered
No
Codeclan and Data Kirk - Become a Data Scientist
CodeClan and Data Kirk are co-delivering a six month training programme supporting young people in Edinburgh aged 16 – 24 from BAME backgrounds, and BAME individualsaged 20 – 24 who have dropped out of education, to learn professional data analytics ...
Service Type
Education and training
Client Group
BME Groups
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19 and 20-24
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement, Stage 2 / Barrier Removal, Stage 3 / Vocational Activity, Stage 4 / Job Matching, and Stage 5 / Upskilling & Aftercare
Outreach offered
No
Community Renewal: Next Step Edinburgh
Community Renewal: Next Step Edinburgh provide high-quality integrated support to help people alooking for work. We provide person-centred one-to-one support. We are also engaging with employers to access under-used talent amongst Edinburgh’s residen...
Service Type
Employability, Education and training, Money / Benefits, and Volunteering
Client Group
Care experienced, Disability, Homeless / at risk of homelessness, Substance misuse, LGBT+, BME Groups, Criminal Convictions, Lone Parents, and Health Conditions
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-50, and 50+
Pipeline Stage
Stage 3 / Vocational Activity, Stage 4 / Job Matching, and Stage 5 / Upskilling & Aftercare
Outreach offered
No
Community Works
What we do
Help people to find progress towards working or volunteering.
Service Type
Employability, Education and training, and Volunteering
Client Group
Long term unemployed
Target Area
North east and North west
Age group served
20-24, 25-29, 30-50, and 50+
Pipeline Stage
Stage 2 / Barrier Removal, Stage 3 / Vocational Activity, Stage 4 / Job Matching, and Stage 5 / Upskilling & Aftercare
Outreach offered
No
CREATE - Spring 2022
Articulate has developed this series of workshops as taster sessions for young people living in Edinburgh aged 16-24.
The programme will introduce young people to music, visual art and filmmaking skills within an employability framework that is a ste...
Service Type
Employability and Education and training
Client Group
Care experienced and Homeless / at risk of homelessness
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement, Stage 2 / Barrier Removal, and Stage 3 / Vocational Activity
Outreach offered
Yes
Cyrenians Foundations to Employment
Cyrenians’ Foundations to Employment has been delivering an innovative and bespoke employability service to those furthest from employment across the city for the last nine years. The provision of a person-centred, relational approach to address barr...
Service Type
Employability, Health / Mental Health, and Volunteering
Client Group
Care experienced, Disability, Homeless / at risk of homelessness, Substance misuse, LGBT+, BME Groups, Criminal Convictions, Lone Parents, Health Conditions, and Long term unemployed
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-50, and 50+
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement
Outreach offered
Yes
Cyrenians Key to College
Key to College (KTC) offers much-needed outreach family keywork and practical assistance to young people to navigate college application, funding and enrolment processes. These are time sensitive and can be overwhelming to deal with unaided. Most of ...
Service Type
Employability and Education and training
Client Group
Care experienced
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement
Outreach offered
No
Cyrenians: Key to Potential
Key to Potential offers one-to-one outreach and visiting assistance to sixteen year old non-attenders as they transition from school at stage 1 of the pipeline.
These young people may only have received very limited, if any, careers support and are a...
Service Type
Employability
Client Group
Care experienced and Homeless / at risk of homelessness
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement
Outreach offered
Yes
DataKirk - Data2Work
Data2Work (D2W) project for BAME parents living and working in Edinburgh who are socially and economically excluded and to help them gain essential data skills, progress to further learning and increase their employability.
D2W is designed to introdu...
Service Type
Employability and Education and training
Client Group
BME Groups
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-50, and 50+
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement, Stage 2 / Barrier Removal, Stage 3 / Vocational Activity, Stage 4 / Job Matching, and Stage 5 / Upskilling & Aftercare
Outreach offered
No
DataKirk - DataBounzBlack - The Future of Work Skills Project
DataBounzBlack (DBB) project for Black African and Black Caribbean young people living in Edinburgh who are socially and economically excluded and to help them gain essential future of work skills, progress to further learning and increase their empl...
Service Type
Employability, Education and training, and Volunteering
Client Group
BME Groups
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19 and 20-24
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement, Stage 2 / Barrier Removal, Stage 3 / Vocational Activity, Stage 4 / Job Matching, and Stage 5 / Upskilling & Aftercare
Outreach offered
No
Deaf Action Employability Service
Our Employability Service at Deaf Action covers Deaf People ages 16 - 65 in Edinburgh.
Service Type
Employability
Client Group
Disability and Long term unemployed
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-50, and 50+
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement, Stage 2 / Barrier Removal, Stage 3 / Vocational Activity, Stage 4 / Job Matching, and Stage 5 / Upskilling & Aftercare
Outreach offered
No
Direct Partners
We support youth employment through Modern Apprenticeships and Pre Employment programmes.
Our target audience is 16-24 year olds within Edinburgh, Lothians and Fife.
Service Type
Employability and Education and training
Client Group
Care experienced, Disability, Homeless / at risk of homelessness, Substance misuse, LGBT+, BME Groups, Criminal Convictions, Lone Parents, Health Conditions, and Long term unemployed
Target Area
All Edinburgh
Age group served
16-19 and 20-24
Pipeline Stage
Stage 3 / Vocational Activity and Stage 4 / Job Matching
Outreach offered
No
Dunedin Canmore Youth Projects NOLB Activity Agreement Hub (South East)
The No One Left Behind (NOLB) Activity Agreement Hub works with young people aged 15.5-26yrs at Stage 1 of the employability pipeline.
Young people are offered 1-1 support and the opportunity to attend a weekly employability hub where they would be en...
Service Type
Employability, Education and training, and Volunteering
Client Group
Care experienced, Homeless / at risk of homelessness, Substance misuse, LGBT+, BME Groups, Criminal Convictions, Lone Parents, Health Conditions, and Long term unemployed
Target Area
South east
Age group served
16-19 and 20-24
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement
Outreach offered
No
Dunedin Canmore Youth Projects - NOLB Activity Agreement Hub (South West)
No One Left Behind Activity Agreements Hub - South West
The No One Left Behind (NOLB) Activity Agreement Hub works with young people aged 15.5-26yrs at Stage 1 of the employability pipeline.
Young people are offered 1-1 support and the opportunity to a...
Service Type
Employability, Education and training, and Volunteering
Client Group
Care experienced, Disability, Homeless / at risk of homelessness, Substance misuse, LGBT+, BME Groups, Criminal Convictions, Lone Parents, Health Conditions, and Long term unemployed
Target Area
South west
Age group served
16-19 and 20-24
Pipeline Stage
Stage 1 / Engagement
Outreach offered
No