Good News Stories
The following are a selection of good news stories illustrating some of the achievements of Pentreath’s participants. (Names have been changed in all our good news stories)
Working with Mindful Employers
jemma April 2007
Over a period of a further two or three years - a process elongated because, intermittently, I was required to return to London to take full time care of my children - Pentreath helped me in the process of preparing to return to work and found two short term voluntary work placements for me, the second being at Fitzgerald Lighting Ltd, based in Bodmin. Initially I worked for only about twenty hours a week but I was quickly able to increase this to full time.
"As a result of my second work placement, I was offered full time employment assisting in the IT department at Fitzgerald's, initially for a trial period but later on a permanent basis. Whilst still early days and working in areas that are essentially new to me, I have been encouraged and allowed to develop and asked to do a variety of tasks. Among other things, I have already been able to achieve considerable monthly savings by negotiating several new admin and service contracts for the company.
"Knowing how difficult it is to rebuild having been hit by "life's forty tonne truck", I can but express my grateful thanks to those individuals within Pentreath and Fitzgerald's for lending me a helping hand in the rebuilding process - rather than "walking by on the other side" - and I would want to encourage as many other organisations / individuals as possible to invest in and value their employees / people in appropriately similar ways."
