Video: Jobs club finds local unemployed people 'one job a week' The UK's unemployment rate is at a 17-year high of 2.6m. The latest figures show a quarterly fall in the number of people without work but the figure is still worryingly high with more than 1m Britons trapped in part-time jobs because they cannot find full-time hours. Wage growth is muted, long-term unemployment is rising and the number of young people out of work is above the 1m mark. Britain is trapped in a jobs crisis, according to several labour market experts. As policy-makers debate what to do to try and kick-start growth and job creation among UK companies, local volunteers and entrepreneurial figures are taking it into their own hands to support people back to work. The M3 Jobs Club in Basingstoke is one such club, which began last April and has now helped 81 people back to work: that's six every month, or at least one per week. The Club meets every Friday and attracts mainly professional workers aged between 41 and 60. Richard Thayer, founder of the M3 Jobs Club, explains how the Club workers in this short video, filmed by unemployed jobseeker Keith Parkin. Keith is filming a video diary for the Telegraph charting the ups and downs of being out of work and over the age of 50. At 53, Keith is a chartered engineer who is struggling to find a job amid the dismal labour market. He lives with his family in Basingstoke. Watch his previous video diaries: Video diary: My week as an unemployed job hunter Unemployed jobseeker: Some days I feel ashamed to be a father