Helping people transition into a career by offering support for ‘work ready’ individuals, helping them to feel confident and prepared.
4 out of 16 grants awarded already! Successful recipients have spent their bursary on laptops, office equipment and training.
We distribute 16 grants a year. If you're work-ready, we're ready to accept your application.
Designed for people struggling with financial hardship whilst seeking work in South Wales.
Empowering job seekers from marginalised communities, facing barriers, or at the start of their work journey.
Too often it isn’t a candidate’s skillset, passion or values that get in the way of them securing employment, but their confidence and financial situation. But for some, this can also be coupled with the weight of caring responsibilities, low confidence, navigating a lack of local opportunities, and processing difficult (or even traumatic) life events.
The reality is that not everyone will have the means to fund this. It could be the perfect role - the one that feels just right - and yet without access to these ‘necessities’, the best person for the role might not have a chance to apply.
The Moxie Foundation offers more than just financial support; for us, it’s about giving people opportunities and the confidence that they are capable of brilliant things. That work can lift them up and open the door to happier, more fulfilled ways of living.
You must be unemployed and actively looking for work
You should have temporary, permanent, or stable accommodation.
You have children or caring responsibilities, appropriate and sustainable arrangements should already be made.
You must be currently engaged with a housing association or statutory service and struggling with financial hardship whilst seeking work.
Some jobs may list a driving licence as a ‘must-have’. Others may require access to particular tech equipment to be able to attend a virtual interview or work remotely.
These grants are designed to help people viably transition into a career. This could be spent on driving lessons, training, tech equipment like a new laptop, or something specific like a CSCS card.
It was through our experience as a specialist housing recruitment agency that we recognised that beginning your first job search or returning to work can be a confusing, costly and stressful time for some.
We know that too often it isn’t a candidate’s skill set, passion or values that get in the way of them securing employment, but their confidence and financial situation.
The Moxie Foundation is funded through 5% of our annual profits, which we hope will empower job seekers from marginalised communities, facing barriers, or at the start of their work journey to secure sustainable and rewarding employment.
Our grants are already making a difference. (Wahoo!)
The Finances, Skills and Futures (FSF) Project has formed a valuable working link with Moxie People. Having secured grants via Moxie People, two FSF clients are now IT ready and on their way to taking back control of their lives, beginning with training and job interviews via TEAMS
