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What an amazing day! On Monday Landau employees, volunteers, learners & honorary guests gathered to celebrate our largest business accolade to date! We received the Queen's Award for Enterprise in April this year, owing to our incredible staff and all the work...

We have launched our new Community Grants Newsletter! Click the link below to see all the good work and news coming out of our Community Grants project! CG May 2021 Issue 1

The theme this year is 'nature', so we have been outside, connecting with nature and gathering natural resources for our group artwork. Our wonderful Landau Learners decided to continue with the nature theme and chose to make a collage of a Honey Badger. We had a...

Days after receiving a royal seal of approval with a Queen’s Award for Promoting Opportunity, Landau is calling for employers to sign a new pledge as part of its landmark We See You initiative. Organisations are being asked to become disability confident employers,...

Landau has received recognition at the highest level after being awarded a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise. We are one of just 205 companies across the UK to be recognised with an award, announced today, Thursday, April 29. We have been handed the top...

In our second video for World Autism Awareness Week, Gail talks about her experiences with dyspraxia- in the past referred to as 'Clumsy Child Syndrome. Like autism, dyspraxia is a Neurodivergent condition. People with dyspraxia have issues learning fine and gross...

Today marks the start of World Autism Awareness Week and we are honoured to support around 3,000 people per year into employment and training. We have created a series of videos highlighting some of the amazing people we work with starting off with Richard Hemmings,...

Today we are launching a new campaign to drive greater diversity in workplaces across the UK. The We See You campaign will tell the inspiring stories of some of the 3,000 people we’ve helped into training or employment, highlighting the benefits to organisations that...

Looking for a way to support Landau or want to know more about the people we support?Our 25th Anniversary book is now available in our brand new virtual shop! To mark our 25th Anniversary, the inspirational new book features the achievements and success stories of...

"Supported employment and training charity Landau, which is headquartered in Telford and has sites in Stoke and Hereford, today welcomed the Chancellor’s multi-million-pound commitment to boost training and skills to tackle youth unemployment. Sonia Roberts, CEO,...

We hope this week so far has been informative! On the final week of National Careers Week, Rowena asks Cllr Maxine Clark about her reasons for joining politics- and the impact she hopes to make. There are many careers within Politics, you could go into such as a...

The High Sheriff of Shropshire has thrown her support behind funding for organisations developing initiatives to help unemployed people across Shropshire. They are being invited to claim a share of a £1.5 million pot of funding, with grants worth between £5,000 and...

Today we're hearing from Carole Moreton, Team Leader and business owner for National Careers Week. She talks to Fletcher about how her hobby turned into a home-based business, and why having a vision- along with technical and soft skills, are key to succeeding in...

For our third National Careers Week podcast here is Samuel Brant, our Head of Finance talking to Fletcher and Hayley about his career journey and what he enjoys most about his job. Many college and university students are unsure of what career they want- just like...

Here's the second video in our National Careers Week series! This time around we have our Stoke learner Reuben asking Sharon Bradshaw, Training Services Manager, about #motivation and what success means to her. Staying motivated throughout work at the best of times...

Here is the first video for our new National Careers Week podcast! This podcast is lead by our learners who got the chance to sit down with some employees and ask them some interesting questions about their motivations and career journeys. We are starting off the week...

“Grants worth between £5,000 and £20,000 are available from the European Social Fund (ESF) Community Grants scheme for projects that will help move unemployed people towards employment, training or back into education. Funding totalling £500,000 has already been...

Since becoming a registered charity in 1995, Landau has helped young people and adults across the UK to create meaningful and fulfilling futures for themselves by supporting them into long-term employment. To mark our 25th anniversary, an inspirational new book...

The best investment is in our people claims a local business as it sets out plans for the next wave of lock down by giving staff paid time off during the working day to look after their well-being. Local supported employment business Landau continued to work...