About us

"Through the programmes it runs, Tomorrow’s People is a significant force in reducing the level of unemployment in the UK – particularly long-term unemployment – and in increasing the number of employable people." Adrian Cooper, Managing Director of Oxford Economic Forecasting

Tomorrow’s People believes in giving people a hand up rather than a handout.

Unemployment damages people’s lives in so many ways. Being out of work means people are more likely to live in poverty housing, have low educational attainment, poor physical health, mental and emotional issues, be victims of crime, have reduced life expectancy and lack of employment prospects.

We put people on the road back to employment, getting them into appropriate, sustainable jobs.

Discover more about who we are and who we work with in terms of people and businesses. You can also find out more about our projects, services and what we do to help those in need, as well as where we are located.

Who we are

The mission of Tomorrow’s People is to help people find and keep a job. We provide jobseekers with the skills and qualifications that local employers need.

Founded by Grand Met (Diageo) in 1984, we have been running as an independent charity since early 2005. In that time, we have helped change the lives of over 400,000 people across the UK who had been resigned to long-term unemployment and welfare dependency.

We engage with the people who are the hardest to reach by giving them one to one support in their own community, helping them to find the right job and to keep it long term. On average, 90% of people helped by our specialist employment advisers are still in work 3 months on, 76% 12 months on.

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