Business solutions
We provide a diverse range of solutions to businesses, such as corporate catering, recruitment, and supported employment. Additionally, we offer businesses inclusion and disability awareness training.
Our team can partner with your organisation to provide a strategic way for you to have a positive impact on society through your supply chain. Everything we do at NOW Group is outcomes focused and measurable. We will work with you to communicate your impact and demonstrate its value for your organisation.
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Employment service
At NOW Group we support people with learning difficulties and autism into jobs with a future. We work with employers to find hard working, loyal staff for their organisation and support both the company and staff member to ensure a successful relationship.
We have a dedicated employment team who work with our participants to assess what jobs they would like and are suitable for. We work with a range of people including those with a high functioning form of autism, people who have a mild learning difficulty such as difficulty reading or writing and people with a learning disability. Research indicates that our participants are committed, loyal and enthusiastic employees.
Our supported employment service can work with you to support your existing employees with a learning difficulty or disability. We work in partnership with your HR and management team to ensure that your employee remains in work and happy in their role.
Hastings won our Employer of the Year award in 2017. Read how they are supporting our participants into jobs with a future.
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Participants on our employment service have a 89% retention rate
Loaf Catering and Cafes is an award winning social enterprise business which provides outside catering across Belfast and Dublin cities.
Loaf is passionate about good quality food and using local suppliers as much as possible. We deliver fresh food to businesses as well as catering special events and parties. It boasts an impressive client list including high profile private sectors businesses such as Deloitte, Barclays, and more.
Our menu offers a wide selection of choices including fresh sandwiches and salads, Loaf’s award winning sausage rolls, seasonal hot dishes and freshly baked sweet treats.
We also run five cafes which are the perfect spot for business meetings or some lunch with friends. The Bobbin Cafe is in Belfast City Hall, Loaf Cafe Bakery, Grosvenor Road, Loaf Cafe in Kilmainham Square, Dublin and Loaf Cafe at the Ewart Building, Belfast. We also have a pottery and pizzeria serving wood fired pizza in Crawfordsburn, County Down.
When you buy from Loaf Catering and order outside catering it makes a difference to these guys, our participants
JAM Card for Business
Discover in Just A Minute why leading global brands choose JAM Card to make their workplaces more inclusive, efficient and happier. Developed for and by people with disabilities, it’s easy-to-use and discreet, making it the go-to choice of thousands of businesses.
We offer online training to support your business becoming JAM Card Friendly. Our training module offers a positive, interactive and data-driven learning experience. Once 70% of your employees complete the e-Learning, you can add bolt-ons, which provides additional training, promotional opportunities and your business advances to JAM Card Friendly Plus+.
What different sectors say about JAM Card for Business
Banking
Rolling out JAM Card across branches has revolutionised banking for many people, including the elderly. Customers use it to signal discreetly that they need ‘Just A Minute’ of patience and support – and trained staff immediately know how best to provide it. Many financial services providers consider it an essential investment for ensuring accessibility.
Transport
Making travelling on buses easier for people with invisible disabilities is how the JAM Card movement started – and since then it’s taken the anxiety and difficulty out of tens of thousands of trips. Popular as a simple but effective communication tool, public transport providers, airports and private travel companies say JAM Card is just the ticket.
Government
An increasing number of public sector services including the justice system, the passport office and social services have introduced the JAM Card concept to provide greater accessibility for all users. Underlining this commitment to boost inclusivity, thousands of civil servants have also completed training in the award-winning ‘Just A Minute’ scheme.
Retail
Leading supermarket brands have boosted customer service in hundreds of stores by signing up to JAM Card. Shoppers with a non-visible disability say that knowing staff will recognise the discreet signal they need ‘Just A Minute’ and provide support makes the in-store experience less daunting and more efficient. Employees also like that it’s easier to give assistance.
Hospitality
Ensuring guests feel welcome and valued is crucial for their enjoyment and return. Employees across the industry credit JAM Card with enhancing the customer experience and facilitating assistance. It also serves as a vital inclusivity tool for staff with non-visible disabilities. Accessibility is not just a legal obligation; it's the right thing to do.
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Gauge Impact
Gauge Impact is our research and evaluation social enterprise. We support businesses from the private, public and third sector to understand, measure and communicate their social impact.
Our team of experienced evaluation consultants can work with your organisation to identify where you are having an impact and how this is affecting society. We are specialists in the Social Return on Investment methodology which allocates a financial value to your social impact.
Our communications and design team work with organisations to effectively communicate the outcomes of their evaluation, including with our eye catching impact cards.