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AT first glance, Aspire seems to be a thriving social enterprise scheme, with workers engaged in businesses from gardening and construction to growing and even selling recycled goods at the county’s markets. Rick Mower of Aspire, left, with Lee, 31, who has benefited from the project But what marks Aspire out is its workforce. Lee, [...]

‘For the last two days I have been volunteering at the Oxford Turl Street project, I found my time there amazing and while I was there I worked alongside teams of volunteers from different trades. Myself and fellow Aspire colleague John were set the task of stripping the wallpaper using steamers down to the bare [...]

This is an article from the Oxford Times… ONCE he was homeless and unemployed, but now Paul Freeth has turned his life around, and wants to help others who have fallen on hard times. Having been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for several years, his first breakthrough came when, with support from workers at [...]

Looks like we’ve gone full circle. When we started out our task was convincing local employers to even consider our Service Users. Now employers are calling us first, before they spend money on ads or recruitment consultants. That’s simply because (a) our guys are super-motivated and really deliver at work and, (b) why spend money [...]