Friendship Zone continues to grow immensely

06.05.2010

The charity Friendship Zone was one of the first organisations in Northampton to be lucky enough to be involved in a national scheme run by Future Job Fund. Today Friendship Zone employs already more than 50 young hopefuls in Northampton, giving them a chance for a 6 month paid work contract with the charity. The job role is Project Administrator which includes promoting and moderating the Social Networking website of Friendship Zone.

This is the sixth group already, which uses this fantastic opportunity to work and learn together at the same time. There are hurdles to overcome when youngsters are searching for the right job. For example, work experience. One of Friendship Zone’s aims is to make dreams come true, and also the opportunity to find a good job. This program provides teaching on IT skills, telemarketing, how to make friends, and the prospect of finding employment. Friendship Zone sees big potential to these youngsters.

Kevin Hill (23) has 6 years of work experience in volunteer work which he really enjoyed. Due to many concurrences he lost his previous job, it took Kevin 8 months searching for a job until he was told about Friendship-Zone. He finds this job really interesting and easy to do. At the same time Kevin brings to the Charity many great ideas how to make the website more attractive, especially thinking about the safety online.

Daniel Jones (19) has some work experience and he knows that in future he would like to work in MOTs service. He is grateful for this job opportunity though, because of the improvement of his knowledge and skills in ICT. Even that it is only for 6 months, Daniel finds his role at Friendship Zone very helpful and he sees he can help the organisation with his ideas to make it better. “I really like the way this system works which makes me work harder because I actually enjoy what the job involves.”

Gemma Poulton (18) and Jodie Shaw (19) – it took about 12 months to find this job for both of them. Previously Gemma had no job experience, but Jodie worked in Telemarketing. Girls enjoy working at Friendship Zone so they can improve their IT skills on computers and especially social networking so this is the perfect job for both of them.

Matthew Burton (20) is the first employee of Friendship Zone who is trying to start his own business. He is running a recording studio and works both as music producer and musician. Friendship Zone uses his soundtracks in video clips of Birthday Dream Party project on YouTube this way helping Matthew to promote his business. See more at http://www.youtube.com/user/materich and http://www.myspace.com/materichproductions. Matthew took a 10 week (music software) course whilst he was looking for a permanent job. “This job definitely allows me to open up to a lot more social networking websites; it’s also a very flexible schedule”, by Matthew.

Ben Ward, 21 years old never worked in this kind of environment before and he says that he really enjoys it very much. Ben wishes to encourage other youngsters to apply for the job at friendship-zone because it is a good experience and it help them with training for other jobs as well.

Friendship Zone is a social networking website which members can apply for various programs online. This charity is unique like no other, as 100% of the revenue is reinvested back into the community.

It can be well noted that Friendship Zone can give valuable training to unemployed youngsters to achieving better opportunities in the current and future job market. To apply for this opportunity please visit Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible. For more information on Friendship Zone please visit www.friendship-zone.com