Voted best Social Enterprise of the year 2011

Each year South West Rhyl Communities First (SWRCF) has an award ceremony to recognise the achievement of individuals and organisations in South West Rhyl. These awards are something special due to the fact that the winners are chosen by the public and this year G2G Communities CIC was voted the best social enterprise of the year 2011 for the work it has done in the area with regard to helping people back in to employment and delivering quality education and training, focused on the needs of the people in South West Rhyl.

Moira Lockitt (MD) said ‘We sponsored a SWRCF award for the best carer of the year and were there to present the award to the winner. It came as a real surprise that someone had put G2G Communities CIC forward for the best social enterprise of the year award and we are extremely delighted that the people of the area recognised what we are doing with regard to helping people back into employment and took the time to vote for us.’ ‘Since starting in November 2010 the number of people accessing our training and resource has grown significantly and in September 2011 we are taking on another unit which will enable us to employ more staff and train even more people’ ‘We have also become a British Computer Society (BCS) Centre and can now offer a range of ECDL and other BCS courses, qualifications and testing’.

G2G Communities CIC has been selected as one of the winners of the BT Community Connections Awards

'Congratulations! We are delighted to inform you that your organisation has been selected to receive a BT Community Connections award. The judges were impressed with your ideas to help other people in your community to get online and have awarded you 12 months’ free connection to BT Business Broadband Advance.'

Moira Lockitt G2G Communties CEO said 'We are extreemly grateful to BT for funding this award and the positive feedback from the judges regarding the work G2G does to help people get on-line and improve their computer skills in an area of high deprivation. The award will enable us to use the money we would have spent on Broadband this year to sponsor new community based projects and help people back into employment'

Winner of the 2012 BT Community Connections Plus Award

G2G communities CIC has been informed that it is the all Wales winner of the 2012 BT Community Connections Plus Award. Out of 160 centres 40 from across the UK were selected to go into the final award. G2G Communities CIC was awarded the outright winner for Wales and will receive a small sum of funding which it will use to purchase equipment and resources that can be taken out into rural areas for ICT/Digital Photography and a range of other courses. Well done to Moira (CEO), Jenny (Learner support) and all the learners that provided case studies for the award.

One of our learners said ‘I really enjoy the time I spend at the unit in the cause of completing LearnDirect courses. I look forward to doing other courses at G2G and would certainly recommend this style of adult learning in Rhyl to one and all!’ View more case studies from our learners.

G2G COMMUNITIES CIC, RHYL, WALES The Office for National Statistics announced that unemployment figures in the UK are at their highest in 17 years . This is evident in Rhyl in Wales, which was named the ‘unemployment capital of Wales’ by the Daily Post in 2011 . The issue of mass unemployment in Rhyl is being directly addressed by community organisation, G2G Communities. G2G is attempting to tackle unemployment by offering tailored ICT training to help get individuals back into jobs or even to start their own businesses.