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St Nicholas Church, Hornsea, has opened the town’s first Job Club. The Job Club will be run from the parish hall every Monday morning from 9am to 12.30pm, except on Bank Holidays.

Job seekers from the town can receive coaching for interviews and help finding jobs online, and local jobs will be displayed on a vacancies board.

The job club was started by the Revd Phil Lamb, vicar of St Nicholas Church. Phil said, “Hornsea’s a big town, and there are new estates being built here all the time. But there’s no support for people who are unemployed here. If you’ve got no job, you’ve got to find the money to travel to Beverley or Hull to go to a job centre. So we wanted to open a job club here to help Hornsea folk who are struggling to find work.

“The church has to take a lead in helping people in need. Jesus teaches us to love our neighbour, and that’s what we’re trying to do here. In 2011 the church opened the first Foodbank in East Yorkshire, to help people going hungry, and now we’re helping people who are unemployed. If we’re serious about loving our neighbour, we have to look at the areas where they are struggling and do what we can to help.

“We’re not experts, so we’ll be learning alongside the people who are coming to the job club, but we believe we can make a difference. One of our volunteers, Yvonne Hird, has experience of job clubs and will be running coaching for interviews with people, to give job seekers more confidence. Opening a job club is something that any church can do, if there’s a need in their community.”