Matt has been unemployed for 3 years. By his own admission Matt has not always made the right life choices. He is keen to get back to work to support his new baby. Matt is currently sofa surfing. He is open to doing any job role. Ideally Matt would like a trade and in the […]

Jo has been unemployed for five years. She moved down from the midlands with her parents and lives in an isolated rural area. She finds being unemployed for so long has affected her and she struggles with feelings of frustration and anger. Jo has a high level of education and since completing her doctorate has […]

Dan has been unemployed for five years. He has just completed the work programme. He found elements of the programme really useful however he felt that it could have been condensed into a four month period as oppose to a two year programme. Dan has struggled with addiction problems throughout his life but has been […]

Ralph and Phil Parsons are a father and son who were both referred to the Phoenix Project and took part in the same course. Ralph has been with the job centre for 5 months, before this he was employed as a gardener for Truro School. Phil has been with the job centre since January, before […]

Jack Swann has been unemployed for 7-8 months.  He recently moved to the area from Plymouth.  Jack struggled with socialising and communicating with new groups of people. For the past 7-8 months he has been applying for hundreds of jobs week after week and has received no responses. Jack lives on his own, in a […]

Debbie has been unemployed for over a year. She had to stop doing a cleaning job for the council due to difficulties at home. Debbie came on this course as a way to get the ball rolling to get back into employment. Debbie loves cleaning and wants to find another job in this area. Due […]

Rebecca Claydon is 24 and has been unemployed for 12 months. She used to work at the Original Art Shop in Truro but unfortunately there weren’t enough hours to keep her on. After university and due to lack of interest that her CV generated, Rebecca felt low in confidence and admits she lost the motivational […]

  Sarah has been unemployed for 2 years. She suffered a mental breakdown and was highly suicidal during this time. Sarah eventually went to a psychiatric ward and stayed there for 3 months until she was better. Talking about this time Sarah said: “I was in a real bad place. It got so bad that […]

Issue Heidi Stasiak lives in Falmouth with her husband Dominik, her eldest daughter Faith 13, who at this time was refusing to go any form of education due to her being bullied, Faith suffered from anxiety, anger issues and lacked self-confidence and self-esteem, this had a huge effect on the family as a whole.  Rhyse […]

  Matt is 21 years old.  He has lived in Cosgarne House for 1½ years.  Prior to the course, Matt used to use drugs on a regular basis, he always felt down, did not want to do anything with his time, had very little confidence and lacked self-esteem.   Matt was referred to the Phoenix project […]

Ian March is 61 years old and has been unemployed for 8 months. Ian has been working full time since the age of 15 but when the company he was working for closed down, he struggled to find alternative employment. Ian’s background is engineering and that was the work he was looking to do. “That’s […]

Chantel is 23 years old.  She has 4 children they are 7, 5 and 3 years old her youngest is 6 months old. Actions Taken Chantel was referred to the Phoenix Project through the Susie Project.  The Susie Project supports survivors of domestic abuse.  Chantel suffered domestic violence in her previous relationship. Chantel was a […]