Our Impact: Cleaning That Changes Lives in Nottingham
Radiant Cleaners is an award-winning social enterprise. We provide excellent cleaning across Nottingham — and we create life-changing jobs for people who have faced major barriers to work.
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Current cleaning staff
1,100+
Hours of real Living Wage work created each month
90%
Of our team say that working for Radiant Cleaners has a positive impact on their life
Why we do what we do
Radiant Cleaners exists to create life-changing jobs for people who have faced barriers to work. We believe meaningful work can be the starting point for hope, purpose, dignity and community — and that for someone who has faced serious barriers, a stable, supported job can be the first step towards change in every other area of life.
Long-term unemployment is one of the biggest challenges facing Nottingham. In September 2023, 9,300 people in Nottingham City (5.9% of those aged 16-65) were not in education or employment. 21% of households were workless (cf. 14% in the UK). Over 20% of those unemployed in Nottingham had been out of work for 6 months or more.
Every partnership between Radiant Cleaners and a Nottingham organisation creates hours of fairly paid, supported employment that helps restore dignity, hope and purpose into local people’s lives.
Excellent cleaning really can be life-changing.
overcoming Barriers to work
We employ people who have faced major barriers to work, including:
Homelessness
Addiction and substance recovery
Experience of domestic abuse
Mental and physical health challenges
Being neurodivergent
Refugee status
Experience of the criminal justice system
Long-term unemployment
“I had depression. I came to the UK, and I couldn’t talk to many people, my mind was very closed. I was shy and my English was very bad.
Radiant Cleaners helped me open my mind. Now I am happy.”
— Radiant Cleaners cleanerMEET A RADIANT CLEANERS TEAM MEMBER
“I used to be a carer for my brother. Then I had to get back into work.”
J knew about Radiant Cleaners through Grace Church Nottingham. So when she was looking for a job they were her first port of call. “They said we can get you sorted and I’ve been up and running since then. Two years on.”
On starting the new role, J said, “It’s always hard at first, isn’t it? Because I didn’t know what I was doing and where I was going. But they really made me feel at home, I kind of slotted into it like I’ve always done it.”
When health difficulties meant J needed to take time off, “they said, come back whenever you feel you can come back. There was no pushing back into the job. But I wanted to come back!”
J says the team at Radiant Cleaners is “dead easy to talk to. You can talk to people about anything, without judging.”
“They’re very understanding. It gets me out, gets me up. I love it.”
