You can’t be what you can’t see.
So here’s everything you can be.
Every real route into work, out in the open — trades, tech, your own business, work that gives back. Four quick questions and you’ve got a starting line for this week, and something worth building at the end of it.
Two minutes. No sign-up. Nothing you tap leaves your phone.
people leave prison in the UK every year
find meaningful work within a year — the map is missing, not the jobs
employers actively recruit prison leavers through New Futures Network
Routes into work — including ways in you haven’t thought of
Jobs, your own business, tech, green energy, for-good work. Every rung shown.
The discipline it takes to rebuild a life is a founder skill. Use it.
First customer decides → You set the ceiling
Give first. It builds the reference, the routine, and the network — fast.
3–6 months to paid → Unpaid → £22–28k
The industry nobody tells you about. It judges the work, not the past.
6–12 months → £25–32k
If training kept you sane inside, it can pay your way outside.
2–4 months → £21–24k, then your rates
The country has to insulate 20 million homes. It needs hands, fast.
3–8 weeks → £24–28k
The green card is the door. Everything after it is up to you.
2–4 weeks → £24–28kThree steps. No account. Two minutes.
Answer four questions
Your situation, what pulls you, how fast you need pay, where your record stands. It stays on your phone.
Get your starting line
Three concrete moves for this week, plus the two routes that fit you best — every step to a career.
Go direct
Every route links to real providers and funded courses. No middleman, no referral forms, no waiting list.
The scariest part isn’t the job.
It’s the question about your past.
Since October 2023, records become spent far sooner than most people realise — and most jobs only ever see unspent ones. Find out exactly what an employer would see, entirely in your browser — so you apply knowing, not hoping.
Check your recordMost jobs. Spent records are invisible — you can legally say "no convictions".
Security, finance, legal. Old and minor records get filtered out over time.
Working with children or vulnerable adults. Filtering still applies.
Jobs that welcome you
Curated listings and employers with open doors. Links go straight to the source.
Built in the open.
Made accurate by people like you.
If you work in probation, prisons, resettlement, recruitment, or you’ve walked one of these routes yourself — this tool is only as good as your corrections. Every route, employer, and legal rule is one plain-English file anyone can fix.
A figure off? A funding scheme changed? One plain-English edit fixes it for everyone.
Know a door that opens? New entries need one public source.
If a line would land wrongly with someone in their first week out, say so.