About Give us a Chance
Give us a Chance (GUAC) is the leading consortium of social landlords who are rising to the challenge of helping people into work.
Our Mission is to transform lives by enabling housing providers to support people into employment.
Creating long-term and genuinely sustainable employment opportunities for social housing residents is vital in order to help residents sustain their own tenancies, whilst also making a crucial contribution to cutting the welfare bill.
Through our influencing, sharing and partnership development priorities we aim to put social housing providers at the heart of the employment and skills agenda.
We are the only consortium of social housing providers with open and ongoing dialogue with the government with regard to the relationship between housing providers and employment and skills services. We have a network of contacts across the housing, employment and political arena and use this to leverage support for GUAC members.
GUAC helps support the employment support objectives of our housing organisations. We can help to broker practical partnerships that can lead to contracted delivery, to support your employment and skills programmes. GUAC’s advisers can also be brought in to navigate contracting partnerships between housing and employment and skills providers.
We work in strategic alliances and formal partnerships with other organisations who share our goals, including: ERSA, the Learning & Work Institute and the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP). GUAC members automatically gain membership of ERSA, as part of the GUAC subscription fee.
Join GUAC members on webinars, members’ conferences, sector events and roundtable discussions, to hear about latest developments in the sector as well as to help influence and develop best practice.
Chair of Give us a Chance,
Vice Chair of Give us a Chance,
Kate has been part of Give us a Chance since its inception and held the post of Chair until 2015. Kate is now the Treasurer for GUAC.
Matt understands the value that GUAC provides to organisations like L&Q and sees GUAC’s value in the way can it is able to lead on the lobbying around the employability work of housing associations.
Julie is keen to help other Housing Association’s like whg to collaborate and levy the power they have to influence the national agenda - ‘GUAC has a key role to play in supporting HAs in raising their profile around the employment and training agenda”
