Free career support for the people you serve.
Join our network. When funding reaches your area, we provide the accounts, the coaches and the reporting. You tell people it is there.
You know the people. We find the funding and provide the support.
How it works
No programme for you to run
Joining is free and commits you to nothing. It helps us send funded support to the right places.
Tell us who you serve
Register your organisation, where you are, and the communities you work with.
We match the funding
We connect social value commitments and other funding to your area.
You share the link
People set up their own accounts and get support directly from us.
What it asks of you
A service without extra admin
You
- Tell people the support exists
- Share a link, or put our materials up
- Offer space only if you want an in-person service
Stay Nimble
- Funded accounts and qualified coaches
- The career support itself
- Records and funder reporting
What people receive
A Stay Nimble account for life
Career support people can use in their own time: Ask.Nim at any hour, Skills Finder, Career Explorer, Course Finder, CV Helper and Job Radar.
Funded places include coaching credit with a coach registered with the Career Development Institute, qualified to at least Level 6 in career guidance and trained as a mental health first aider. Coaching credit does not expire, so nobody is penalised for stepping away and coming back.
Reach
Digital first, not digital only
People can start online without travelling or waiting for an appointment. Where there is space and funding, a coach can come to your venue regularly too.
At GL11 Community Hub in Cam that is the Careers Café on Wednesdays. At Corbett Community Library in Lewisham, it runs alongside everything else the library does. At South Hill Centre in Hemel Hempstead, it's every Tuesday.
Corbett Community Library, Lewisham
Career support inside a place people already use
Over 100 local people have worked with us at the library since December 2023. More than 40 have moved into full-time work, part-time work or self-employment, or taken a significant step through volunteering or vocational training.
Cordelia Wise RCDP spends about a third of her week with Stay Nimble there. The rest she coaches by video across the country.
Also working with
Optional extras
More, where it helps
Training for your team. Career Allies is CPD-certified training for frontline workers who are not careers professionals. It is built on the Career Conversations Competency Framework, which we publish openly.
Impact happening nationally
People supported since 2018
Evidenced social value
Average coaching-session rating
Stay Nimble is a social enterprise providing free career support to people on low or no income, funded through public contracts, social value commitments, grants and our own reinvested surplus.
Tell us who you serve
Joining costs nothing and commits you to nothing. It means we know where funded career support can make a difference.