We wanted to share a blog that our friends at The Conduit wrote in response to the recent events happening in Afghanistan and its refugee crisis, and the role social enterprises play in supporting the refugee community.
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Volunteer Lubna chats with Endri, currently on the Proofers programme, about his progression from Breadwinners to Proofers and how his work as an online sales representative is teaching him skills to help him progress his life & career.
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Refugee Week is a celebration of the amazing contribution refugees and people seeking asylum make to communities across the world. We chat with two people on our programmes to discuss what they feel refugees bring to the UK, and about their experience working with Breadwinners.
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Read our latest impact report (2020) to learn more about what we do, how we help people and how funding is used in Breadwinners.
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Volunteer Lubna reports on our community event to Thread Ahead’s pop-up clothes store, which gave us a chance to celebrate Ramadan as a community despite COVID restrictions.
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Zoe caught up with Gobika, Breadwinners programme graduate, who is in the process of launching her own business, Namma Party, which provides a handcrafted party-in-a-box to help you celebrate with style. She reflects on how her time at Breadwinners gave her the skills she needed to succeed.
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Volunteer Lubna chats to the newest member of our team, Risers Programme Manager Georgia, about the success of her first Risers cohort and what she’s loved about working with our young people so far.
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Over the last few months, our Proofers programme has been up and running to support our online bread sales. Like Breadwinners, our Proofers are people with settled refugee status in the UK. Through talking to our customers, our Proofers found some really interesting results…
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Like every charity, the height of the coronavirus pandemic and the national lockdown offered a host of unprecedented challenges that we needed to overcome to keep supporting the wonderful young people on our programmes.
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Refugees face many challenges when they arrive in the UK, but one key obstacle to integration and improved wellbeing is high levels of unemployment. 78% of UK-born residents are employed, but, on average, in the EU, only 56% refugees are employed. We want to change that.
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