Weightmans provides funding to Everton in the Community's employment programme

Award-winning national law firm Weightmans has built on its long-standing relationship with Everton in the Community by making a financial contribution to support the charity’s work in boosting employment across Liverpool City Region.  

The Club’s official charity has been working with the top UK law firm since 2021, with Weightmans supporting an education programme for young children in Liverpool 4 and its latest gesture to the charity will see the firm provide additional funds to ‘Working Well’, Everton in the Community’s employability arm.  

The charity’s employability support team are on hand to help individuals find employment and training opportunities across a wide range of sectors and offer both one-on-one support and group sessions as well as providing general support for CV writing, interview skills, job searching and welfare advice at a Monday drop-in session from The People’s Hub on Spellow Lane. A number of Weightmans employees will be in attendance and will donate their time to the afternoon sessions to share their skills and expertise. 

The funding received from Weightmans will enable Everton in the Community to increase its employability support available through a fortnightly Job Centre Plus ‘Jobs Fair’ at The Blue Base Pantry with skilled employability trained staff onsite to support local people in their search for employment and/or to improve their economic status. The funding will also support the charity in addressing the needs of young people by helping to create more flexible approaches to working such as shift and hybrid working patterns.  

Made possible thanks to Weightmans, it is estimated that 130 individuals will receive employability support from Everton in the Community’s weekly scheduled sessions of delivery with participants due to have improved access to job opportunities, improved digital skills, mental health and wellbeing and gaining sustained employment.  

Andy Duff, Everton in the Community Director of Income Generation, said: “We are so grateful to Weightmans for selecting Everton in the Community again to benefit from their residual client account. Their kind donation will help support our employability programme and ultimately result in the long-term unemployed gaining valuable skills to re-enter employment.”   

John Schorah, Weightmans Managing Partner, said: “It is vital that those seeking employment can access the right support and training that will provide them with practical skills and boost their confidence and self-esteem.

“We are very proud of our continued relationship with Everton in the Community; it is a remarkable organisation who are working hard to offer opportunities to motivate, educate and inspire people across the region and we are delighted to provide this funding to assist them with this life-changing work.”

For more information on Everton in the Community’s Working Well programme visit https://www.evertoninthecommunity.org/projects/education/employability  

If you are interested in working with Everton in the Community please email CSR@evertonfc.com