TNG, one of the UK’s leading welfare to work organisations, in Stockton is celebrating its 200^th customer success on a government funded welfare to work scheme which aims to help individuals find employment through training and work experience.

Community Task Force get working at Wigan Parish Church

Customers with TNG in Oldham gain work experience through helping the community

TNG helps tackles unemployment in Stockton

At the end of last year, Anthony Dixon, 28, from Stockton, had spent the last year searching for work, and was facing the start of the new decade on benefits.

Avanta, incorporating TNG & InBiz, successfully achieved the Matrix Standard in May. Over 200 staff, customers and employers were interviewed during two weeks of visits by Matrix assessors. Visits took place to over 15 offices up and down the country including the company head office in Enfield.

TNG in Birkenhead helps young man into employment in the childcare industry.

Jamie Simpson, 20, from Birkenhead, had been out of work for two years before TNG, a national welfare to work provider, helped him turn his natural ability with children into a promising career in childcare.

Neil Powell, 32, from Liverpool, was unemployed for two years before joining TNG's Lone Parent Programme, which focuses on supporting lone parents through the difficult transaction of going back to work.

TNG helps Birkenhead man off benefits and inspires him to help others

Two years ago, Gordon Kirkbride, 36, from Birkenhead, was unemployed and living on benefits. Today, he is Project Supervisor for TNG, a national welfare to work organisation, helping unemployed people in the community gain the skills to get back into work in Birkenhead.

Operating from the Argyle Centre in Ramsgate, TNG works alongside three other training providers (Thanet College, SES Tutors and Maximus UK) to overcome the high unemployment of the deprived coastal towns of Thanet.

Janette Faherty, CEO of Avanta, one of the UK's largest welfare to work, skills and enterprise training organisations, received her OBE from HRH Prince Charles at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Friday 21st May.