George Johnston CPCS A59A Excavator

George contacted East Ayrshire Works requesting funding support to gain the 360 Excavator qualification so he could take up employment with a loc…

Natalies 7 Method Hair Extension Certificate

Natalie contacted East Ayrshire Works requesting funding support to gain a qualification that would help to expand and created sustainability for…

Shair by Shannon

Shannon Johnston is the owner of Shair by Shannon in Auchinleck and a new employer.  She approached East Ayrshire Works enquiring about Wage…

Derek Roberts - Employment with CVO under the LTU Programme

Derek approached East Ayrshire Works and the LTU programme back in March this year. Derek was unemployed for around 3 years due to a health condi…

Debbie's success with the assistance of LTU

Debbie approached East Ayrshire works regarding the LTU programme back in February. She has spent the last six years raising her two children and…

John's success with our Long Term Unemployment programme

John connected and began to work alongside long term unemployment back in May through East Ayrshire Works. In the last two years John had becom…

Kenneth Wilson - Upskilling and Training

Kenneth first approached the service back in July 2020 when he had already been furloughed for several months from his job as a coach driver.&nbs…

Ronnie's Recovery Enterprise Journey

The Long Term Unemployed Project has been running now since December 2021 and has been very successful so far. One of the candidates on this s…

George Robertson - Employability Fund Stage 3 with East Ayrshire Works

George Robertson has recently secured a 6 month temporar…

Gordon Jackson - Trained to be a barber

Gordon says:Having been a professional driver for over 40 years I found myself being made redundant in August 2020.  I thereafter decid…

Barry Davers - Employability Client

Barry contacted our employability team as a stage 5 customer who was stuck in a factory job, which was minimum wage. Not only was he struggling t…

Nicky Buchanan - Employability Client

Nicky registered with East Ayrshire Councils Employability Team as unemployed in June 2020 after being made redundant in April 2020. Nicky was fe…

A selection of stories from client's of the Employability Team

Sandy HillanSandy’s employment was severely impacted by COVID and he contacted East Ayrshire Councils Employability Team during the first lockdown…

Alexis - Employability Client

Alexis was referred to the service via Business Gateway for Stage 5 funding to gain the “Beginners PMU Training”, a Permanent Make-up course to al…

Cathryn - Supported Employment Client

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EAC Employability Fund - Dylan Templeton

Dylan Templeton (pictured) has recently secured employment after successfully completing Employability Fund Stage 3.  Dylan is now working…

Apprenticeship Week Success Story 6 - Peri Nimmo

Peri Nimmo below being presented with her Modern Apprentice Certificate by her Supervisor. She has completed her SVQ Business Administration Mode…

Apprenticeship Week Success Story 5 - Nathan Laye

Congratulations to Nathan Laye who has successfully completed his SVQ Business Administration level 3 qualification within Planning and Economic…

Apprenticeship Week Success Story 4 - Ross Peacock

Congratulations to Ross Peacock who has completed his SVQ Business Administration Modern Apprenticeship Level 2 with East Ayrshire Council, and h…

Apprenticeship Week Success Story 3 - Dee McFadzean

Congratulation to Dee McFadzean who has completed her Business Administration Modern Apprenticeship Level 2 with East Ayrshire Council Business G…

Apprenticeship Week Success Story 2 - Lyndsay Garrick

Congratulation to Lyndsay Garrick who has completed her Business Administration Modern Apprenticeship Level 2 with East Ayrshire Council Business…

Apprenticeship Week Success Story 1 - Robin Ellis

Robyn Ellis above who has completed her SVQ Business Administration Modern Apprenticeship Level 2 and Level 3 with East Ayrshire Council. She is…

CAMERON GIRVAN - THE FIFTH PERSON INDUCTED INTO AYRSHIRE COLLEGE’S APPRENTICE HALL OF FAME

Ayrshire College has inducted another worthy graduate into its Apprentice Hall of Fame.The Hall of Fame recognises the outstanding achievement of p…

Carrie-Anne Jones - Whisky Ambassador

Carrie-Anne Jones registered with Gemma Leitch, a Work Coach with the East Ayrshire Works service, in July 2020. In that time she has successfull…

Supported Employment

A great start to the new year, another 3 clients have secured employment at UCan-Learn.Work.Live! 7 of our clients over the last 12months have join…

Routes to Recruitment Graduate Josh secures Graduate Internship with East Ayrshire Council – Congratulations Josh!

Josh has recently completed Economic Development’s Routes to Recruitment Admin course, where he successfully completed National Progression Awa…

Rose completed our Routes to Recruitment course and has secured employment with East Ayrshire Council – Congratulations Rose!

Rose recently completed our Routes to Recruitment Admin course where she completed National Progression Award Administration: Office Skills &…

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European Structural & Investment Fund

Routes to Recruitment – Administration European Structural & Investment Fund Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) Dionne Kirkwood - Succes…