Recruiter charity Aspire Oxfordshire awarded national accolade

Social enterprise Aspire Oxfordshire, which was Recruiter’s charity of choice for 2012, has been named one of the winners at The Guardian’s Charity Awards 2012.
Thu, 6 Dec 2012Social enterprise Aspire Oxfordshire, which was Recruiter's charity of choice for 2012, has been named one of the winners at The Guardian’s Charity Awards 2012.

This national success, where the organisation shone out among over 1,000 entries, follows another award win earlier this year, when the charity won the Oxfordshire Business Awards ‘Oxford Times Charity and Community Award’.
For more on the work the charity does helping to get people with multiple disadvantages into employment, see the Special Report in the October edition of Recruiter.

In a news statement, Aspire claims that it “significantly out-performs the Government's Work Programme, delivering sustained employment outcomes for 13% of its people against the Work Programme’s 3.5%”.

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