FORMER BMW workers have been invited to find out more about their future prospects at the launch of a job club today.

The East Oxford Job Club was set up in the wake of BMW’s announcement last Monday that 850 agency staff would lose their jobs.

At least 350 staff have already gone, with the remainder expected to leave the Cowley Mini Plant for the last time by the end of the week.

Another 430 workers at the factory had already been laid off at the end of last year.

The new job club will be held from 11.30am to 2.30pm, on a weekly basis, at the Blackbird Leys Leisure Centre in Pegasus Road .

County council officers and Jobcentre Plus representatives will be on hand to advise the former BMW workers and other unemployed people how best to present their CVs, apply for benefits and look for work.

Simon Page, 43, from Starwort Path, Blackbird Leys, lost his job earlier this month after four years as an agency worker at BMW.

He said: “This sounds like a good idea.

“We have just been getting up and going to work, and haven’t been worrying about things like CVs and different jobs.

“I reckon I’ll end up retraining because I’m a mechanic, engineer, paint sprayer and welder – and there is not much call for that now.”