Launchpad 135 - Work and Life Skill's Centre

This is where we offer work and life skills training. The centre is open to members of the public as well to people who are using Launchpad’s services.

We offer a wide range of classes and training sessions. These include practical skills such as cooking, DIY, IT and interview skills as well as soft skills such as building confidence, resilience, teamwork and communication. Our goal for all classes is the same – to help people to live positive, independent lives. 

Launchpad 135 is just a short walk from Reading town centre – on Cardiff Road.

Launchpad staff, volunteers and independent partners deliver training sessions. This is to ensure we are supporting Reading’s diverse communities as well as we can. 

Launchpad 135 offers:

  • Counselling
  • Cookery and barista training
  • Job searching, CV and interview skills
  • Numeracy and literacy skills
  • Access to education and training
  • DIY and home skills
  • Horticulture sessions
  • Arts and crafts
  • Music and drama workshops
  • Fitness sessions

If you have any questions about our courses, email the team at 135@launchpadreading.org.uk – please include a phone number and one of the team will call you back.

To talk to us about your organisation using the centre, please email 135@launchpadreading.org.uk and we’ll be in touch.

Service statistics
Usually replies in 19 hours
100% of referrals accepted
Categories:
Outdoor activities
Day centres
Exercise and fitness classes
Alcohol advice and support
Benefits advice and assessment
Adult education and learning
Arts and creativity
Drugs advice and support
Debt counselling
Asylum seekers and refugee support
Counselling
Careers advice
Health advice
Financial advice and support
Mental health support
Computers and IT skills
Homelessness support
Connecting with nature
Welfare rights advice
Employment and training initiatives
Connecting with others
Housing advice
Getting active
Healthy lifestyle
Helping with money
Information and advice
Mental health
Social prescribing
Support with employment
Support with housing
Volunteering
Service access criteria:

Anyone can refer themselves to Launchpad 135 using the form on the webpage -
https://launchpadreading.org.uk/our-work/work-and-life-skills-centre/

They can also be referred by social prescribing or other services such as probation, the community mental health team, etc or other local support groups or charities.

Additional needs catered for:
Wheelchair accessible
Learning difficulty friendly
Physical disability friendly
Non English speaking friendly
Waiting list (weeks): 0
Work skills, life skills, classes, training sessions, practical skills, cooking, DIY, IT skills, interview skills, soft skills, building confidence, resilience, teamwork, communication, welfare rights, benefits, art therapy, gardening, drama therapy, digital skills, counselling
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