timpson group: After serving more than two years for a violent assault, Barker had been turned down for nearly 70 jobs, according to The Guardian. But the family-owned Timpson group offered her a second chance, training her to work in one of its photo-processing shops on day release from prison before she eventually moved on to cutting keys, and mending shoes and watches at one of its Manchester outlets. That is because at the end of the day she would be returning to her prison cell. If I had not got the job at Timpson I dread to think what would have happened, says the former prisoner. From the kind gesture of a manager who gave her somewhere to live when she left prison to company-funded counselling and a loan for a deposit on a flat. Having suffered depression since going into care when her mother died when she was 15, Barker says Timpson has helped turn her life around.
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