Earning routes
BUILD, WORK and SHAPE: three routes into earning
Every route leads to the same place: earning, on terms that work for you. Each one leads to real work: through POSSIQUE and its mobile retail units, Nuriqa, external employers, or an enterprise of your own.
BUILD, WORK and SHAPE are IT’S POSSIBLE NOW’s earning routes for adults. They are also three of the six pathways in NEET to OPPORTUNITY, the programme for young people. Explore NEET to OPPORTUNITY
BUILD Independent enterprise
BUILD means practical routes into viable self-employment and enterprise.
It is not simply about having a business idea. It is about customers, sales, turnover, earnings and trading that lasts.
A POSSIQUE mobile retail unit shows what that means in practice: running a real enterprise, serving customers, making real transactions and earning income.
Kinds of trade
- Mobile and local trading
- Repair and upcycling
- Alterations
- Photography and product listing services
- Digital services
- Other trades that can pay
What it can involve
- Understanding strengths and goals
- Testing whether a trading model actually adds up
- Removing practical access barriers
- Mentoring and structured reviews
- Connecting a person to products, supply, fulfilment, venues or pitches
What to expect
The business is yours to run, with help to test the numbers before you commit. Every enterprise carries some risk, and we talk that through openly from the start.
What we measure
- Customers
- Transactions
- Turnover
- Earned income
- How long trading lasts
WORK Genuine paid employment
WORK means genuine paid employment, with the adjustments you need and real chances to stay and progress.
Kinds of work
- Digital retail
- Photography
- Product listing
- Customer operations
- Stock
- Packing and fulfilment
- Administration
- Roles with external employers
What it can involve
- Identifying a suitable role
- Working with an employer or host organisation
- Agreeing clear expectations
- Identifying reasonable adjustments
- Reviewing whether the arrangement is working
- Supporting retention and progression
What to expect
Each role is agreed with an employer around the person, so this page carries no vacancy list. Expectations are set by what you can do, and the adjustments you need are part of the role from the start. Employers can offer a paid role.
What we measure
- Paid starts
- Hours
- Earnings
- Retention
- Progression
SHAPE Paid co-design and testing
SHAPE pays people with lived experience to test and improve the places, services and systems everyone uses.
This is paid expertise and co-design. People are paid for skilled work, and what they find changes what gets built.
How a SHAPE assignment works
- Barrier identified
- Change tested
- Evidence recorded
- Change adopted where it works
This is skilled work and it is paid as skilled work. Accessibility problems are cheapest to fix before a product is finalised, and the people who find them fastest are the people who hit them. Organisations can commission or take part in SHAPE.
Where SHAPE applies
- IdeaWhat the product or service is for.
- RequirementsWhat it must do, and for whom.
- ProductionIt gets made.
- LaunchPeople use it.
SHAPE works here. A barrier found before requirements are signed off is a change of plan.
The same barrier found after launch is a rebuild, and the people it excluded have already been excluded.
What SHAPE can test
What it can involve
- Paid co-design sessions
- Accessibility testing of products, spaces and services
- Identifying barriers before requirements are signed off
- Testing adjustments alongside whether they are commercially viable
What to expect
Every design is developed and tested with co-designers before its specification is agreed, and co-designers are paid for that work.
What we measure
- Paid assignments
- Barriers identified
- Changes tested
- Changes adopted
Where opportunities are developed
These are the places where IT’S POSSIBLE NOW turns opportunity into real economic activity: POSSIQUE and its mobile retail units, Nuriqa, external employers, and enterprises people run for themselves.
Any arrangement with a setting is agreed individually and depends on readiness, fit, approval and funding.
Nuriqa is a digital retail, reuse and fulfilment business, and an accessible place for practical work such as:
- Photography
- Preparing garments
- Product descriptions and listings
- Customer operations
- Stock
- Packing and fulfilment
- Repair and upcycling
- Alterations
- Accessibility testing
Packing an order at home. A still from the concept film. Reuse to Work
A pathway we are developing with Nuriqa. It starts with reused goods and leads, step by step, to paid work and trading:
- Reuse
- Skills
- Real work
- Trade
- Income
- Progression
The POSSIQUE mobile retail unit
POSSIQUE is an initiative of IT’S POSSIBLE NOW CIC. A POSSIQUE mobile retail unit shows exactly what BUILD means: a person runs a real enterprise, serves customers, makes real transactions and earns income.
Serving a customer at the Mobile Retail Unit. A still from the concept film. From opportunity to earned income
How POSSIQUE and the mobile retail unit work:
- IT’S POSSIBLE NOW CIC
- POSSIQUE
- Mobile retail unit
- Real trading
- Customers
- Transactions
- Earned income
- Progression
The Mobile Retail Unit trades Gazian Water, a real product sold to real customers. Gazian Water has its own commercial structure under Gazian Ltd.
Your own enterprise
You do not have to work in one of these settings. Where it suits you, we help you develop an enterprise of your own, or another route that fits what you want to do.
External employers
IT’S POSSIBLE NOW also works with employers and partners outside these settings, so opportunities are not limited to our own projects. Employers can offer a paid role.
Which route fits
Choosing is part of the conversation. Register your interest, say what you are drawn to, and we will work it out together, including “more than one” and “I am not sure”.
Each opportunity depends on fit and on the partners and funding in place, and we will be clear with you about what is available. How taking part works.
Questions people ask
BUILD is independent enterprise: starting or growing your own business or trade. WORK is genuine paid employment, with the adjustments you need. SHAPE is paid co-design and testing: being paid to find barriers in workplaces, services and spaces and to test the changes that remove them. Every route leads to earning, and you can choose more than one.
See all three on the opportunities page.
No. Each role is agreed with an employer around the person, so this site carries no vacancy list. The way in is to register your interest and tell us which route draws you. Expectations are set by what you can do, and the adjustments you need are part of the role from the start.
That depends on the business, which is why BUILD starts by testing the numbers with you before you commit. Every enterprise carries some risk, and we talk that through openly from the start. The business is yours to run. BUILD records customers, transactions, turnover, earned income and how long trading lasts.
Anyone aged 18 or over in the UK can apply at possique.com. An MRU is a mobile retail unit. You complete the online application, and checking whether you qualify is free. Any arrangement is agreed individually and depends on readiness, fit, approval and funding.
You can also register your interest here and choose BUILD.
Nuriqa is a digital retail, reuse and fulfilment business, and a practical place for work such as photography, product listings, packing and fulfilment, repair and upcycling, and alterations. Its own site, nuriqa.com, describes a fashion platform that brings together new clothing, pre-loved fashion, responsible reuse and community.
No. The settings are POSSIQUE and its mobile retail units, Nuriqa, external employers and enterprises people run for themselves, and you do not have to work in any of them. Where it suits you, IT’S POSSIBLE NOW helps you develop an enterprise of your own, or another route that fits what you want to do. It also works with employers outside these settings.