Progress has been slow, but following the highlighting of the problem (and additional behind the scenes lobbying) and the involvement of the local MP & County Cllr (and others) finally the situation has taken one small step forward. A phone has been installed in the library for job seekers to contact the job centre.
Work is still progressing to arrange for a regular visit by Job Centre staff to come to Tenbury instead of requiring all the Town's unemployed to make regular pilgrimages to the Job Centre.
Thankfully the numbers of job seekers in Town is not high, but with the renewed focus on moving people from other benefits back into employment the numbers may increase.
Tenbury & Burford has lost a number of key employers over the years, and as yet a lack of inward investment has failed to create additional jobs in areas such as the business park.
There are plans in the pipeline for over 100 new houses in Tenbury and perhaps more in Burford. Unless we are to be increasingly a dormitory Town feeding Worcester, Malvern etc and beyond, we need to attract more employers to the area.
Tenbury is an idyllic place to live, but to have the majority of the working population travelling in excess of 50 miles a day, mostly by Car is hardly a sensible and sustainable solution.
Tenbury is an idyllic place to live, but to have the majority of the working population travelling in excess of 50 miles a day, mostly by Car is hardly a sensible and sustainable solution.
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Excellent! Very good news for those seeking employment.
Well done indeed. However, a telephone is not that helpful (but valued). A presence is required just like the Tenbury Voluntary Services used to do in the old fire station not many years ago. I remember my mother doing volunteer work there on Wed and Sat and dragging me along as a child. So many people gave up there spare time to offer advice and act as a job centre.
Perhaps the notice baords could be installed somewhere like the Pump rooms for people to see, with a Tenbury Co-ordinator being available on a regular basis?
A local service is all very well but if you really want a job, you will have to travel miles every day to get to and from one (in the main anyway). So having to put yourself out to get employment advice is not going to deter you.
If you are inhibited by the lack of a local advice service you are going to be further inhibited by the need to travel further afield to have any hope of a job.
What we need is jobs here but in the absence of those, we need people to have a mindset that working is better than not working and if you have to do what you don't want to do for a while to create better opportunities for yourself then you do it, even if there is a financial or social disadvantage.
I travelled from Tenbury into Birmingham city centre daily (what a pain that was!) until I convinced my employer of the benefits to them for me to work from home most of the time. I needed to put myself out to get that chance. We can't expect for things to be just put on a plate for us. There is only so much the state can do for us.
Respectfully
Whilst I agree with a lot of what you say Lesley, I think there is probably a difference between, a 'career' job and a 'minimum wage' job.
Just travelling to Ludlow (by car as there is no alternative) to do a minimum wage job is not economically viable.
In the past I often commuted 4 hours a day (or sometimes travelled 6 or more hours) but the salary was at the time worth the sacrifice.
Now I'm 'past-it' I wouldn't/couldn't do that on a regular basis and if I was claiming jobseekers allowance (or whatever it's called this week) I would not want to spend a goodly percentage of it getting to the job centre when job searches etc can be done in Tenbury.
I agree the solution is to encourage employers to set up in Tenbury, but years of under investment and lack of vision have seen massive development in Leominster, Ludlow, Evesham, Tewkesbury & Worcester, but nothing of significance here.
soon be 180 jobs if the plans go through
Trouble is they won't all be in Tenbury.
They will if Tesco come to town .
what do u call tenbury
what circumcence in miles 5 10 15 20
people from away work in bowketts from ludlow bayton earliston so that is not a argument
What I meant was that the 180 jobs Tesco refer to are unlikely to all be in Tenbury. They will include the delivery drivers, the warehouse staff that load the lorry, head office etc.
I realise that many people now travel great distances to work.
I often work in Malvern and beyond.
I don't agree that travelling for a minimum wage job isn't viable. Two of my children have just graduated with honours degrees. One has had to return home working locally at just over the minimum wage in the service sector because he can't get a job in his chosen profession. The other is living in London but in the same predicament, earning the absolute minimum wage but travelling well over an hour each way to do a shift and facing considerably higher living costs.
If the one working locally couldn't find a job locally then he would have to find a job working much farther afield on the same almost minimum wage, getting a bus to work or whatever. This is non negotiable in my eyes, as working, whatever the disadvantage, is better than not working.
Too many people thesedays expect a job to earn a certain amount of money or they expect their qualifications to get them a certain wage. Well, in a boom period that may well be the case, but in a recession, we have to take what we can get.
I do very well on a professional salary, as does my husband, but all of my children are prepared to whatever it takes to get by and to be able to demonstrate on their CV's that they are prepared to challenge themselves.
Of course as a parent I don't want them to struggle, but at the same time I want them to stand up and be counted, and if they have to spend a bit of money travelling to secure a job then so be it.
Respectfully
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