Shaw Trust and Employment Opportunities merge

Submitted by Daniel on Mon, 27/04/2009 - 12:17pm

A merger has been confirmed between Shaw Trust and EOpps. Press release follows:

National employment charities, Shaw Trust and Employment Opportunities are to merge it was announced today. The merger will take effect from 1 May 2009.

The merger brings together almost 60 years of proven expertise in helping disabled and disadvantaged people find and keep a job. Both charities deliver employment programmes on behalf of the Government and see the merger as strengthening that capacity.

Tim Papé, Director General of Shaw Trust said:

"Shaw Trust has always been committed to good partnership working. By combining the skills of two organisations with a similar charitable vision and mission, we will be able to support even more clients and make an even greater impact. We strongly believe the Third Sector has a vital role to play in shaping and delivering employment programmes for the Government.

"The merger of our two organisations will strengthen the capacity of the Third Sector to deliver and provide it with an even stronger voice."

Karin Pappenheim, Employment Opportunities CEO commented:

"Our organisations have worked closely together for many years and the merger is a natural extension of that partnership. By combining our talents and resources, we aim to do even more for the clients who need our services.

"Employment Opportunities’ takes great pride in its many achievements over the years, especially the thousands of people whose lives we have changed through employment and we look forward to continuing that through the merger"

Comments

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 27/04/2009 - 12:32pm.

You should only publish details when you could provide the names of the organisations involved. xxxxxx on you!

Submitted by Daniel on Mon, 27/04/2009 - 12:50pm.

As you wish! Well, give or take 20 minutes.

Submitted by Daniel on Thu, 30/04/2009 - 10:43am.

Some thoughts on this: the future of EOpps as a welfare-to-work provider has been uncertain for some time. At least one senior DWP manager's vision for the industry is of 20 primes and 80 subcontractors. Given there were a few hundred providers at the last count, mergers or acquisitions are a far less brutal way for this to happen than the alternative. So from this perspective, the merger made a lot of sense.