Two clients started work this month. And they found those jobs themselves.
That detail matters. Because at Pathways, the goal was never to hand anyone an outcome. It was always to help people find their own way to one.
Both clients received support at the start of their journey: help with job applications, building confidence, and navigating a process that can feel overwhelming when life has already thrown a lot at you. But the determination to keep showing up, to keep trying? That came from them.
It’s the kind of moment the Pathways team works towards and rarely gets tired of hearing about.
Elsewhere in the programme this month, a client in the carpentry workshop has taken things a step further. So energised by his own progress, he’s now doing voluntary work with disabled people, developing new skills specifically to be more useful to them. He arrived to learn a trade. He’s leaving a session thinking about how he can serve others. That’s a significant shift.
There’s also been pottery painting, which might sound like a small thing but wasn’t. The room was full of concentration and laughter, and people who don’t always feel like they belong somewhere, belonging somewhere. That matters too.
Pathways works because it takes seriously the idea that every person has potential that circumstances have obscured. Sometimes all it takes is the right environment, a bit of time, and people who believe in you before you believe in yourself.