We are always looking for enthusiastic volunteers to join the Breadwinners family, from mentoring a young person seeking asylum to writing posts for our blog, we need you!
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Our aim at Breadwinners is to improve the wellbeing of refugees and young people seeking asylum. Read this post to learn more about how we achieve this through employment, skills training and mentoring, and why employment is so important for refugees.
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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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Shehan Perera - Content Manager, Social Enterprise UK - Writes about Social Enterprises and Breadwinners!
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The Breadwinners family hit the streets on Sunday 21st June to take part in our very-own virtual fun run, to celebrate Refugee Week UK.
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In our latest Refugee Week interview series, we spoke to one of our young Breadwinners, Nasir, about his experience of working with Breadwinners and what he thinks refugees and young people seeking asylum can bring to society.
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I got involved in October 2017, fresh out of the On Purpose Associate programme, trying to work out my purpose and my career.
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We spoke to Charlotte, our Programme Manager, about how she got involved with Breadwinners and why she thinks the work we do is so important.
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Article By Maryam Qaiser, The Daily Mirror
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Every day at Breadwinners, we see the importance of diversity and value in the differences that we have as a team. We reflect on Black Lives Matter with our Breadwinners during UK refugee week.
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Refugee Week (15th to 21st of June 2020) is a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees. We are running a 5km on Sunday 21st of June to say “We welcome refugees”.
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Breadwinners is growing, and are delighted to offer an amazing opportunity for a Comms Manager to support the Director delivering the communications strategy on social media, the website, via email marketing and several other channels, with the aim to drive online sales and inspire the ‘Breadwinners Community’ to support refugees into their first UK jobs.
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Founded in 2016, Breadwinners is a grassroots charity and not-for-profit social enterprise that employs refugees to sell the highest quality organic bread on farmer’s markets across London.
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This week is Volunteers’ Week and to mark this important week, one of our volunteer mentors, Stephanie, recently spoke to the Mayor of London’s team about her experience of helping refugees during the Covid-19 crisis.
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Molly, a friend of our Programme Manager, Charlotte, used her Breadwinners’ delivery to create this unusual but tasty bread salad and she has very kindly shared the recipe with us!
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This week we asked one of our beneficiaries, Nasir, to interview fellow Breadwinner Elias about his experience of Breadwinners, challenges he has faced and what his hopes are for his future and the future of the world.
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My name is Pouria and I'm a Breadwinners online sales representative. I have passion for cooking and I love to try new recipes.
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When I heard about Breadwinners and its no-brainer model, I was mightily impressed. It felt like it would be a fantastic mentoring opportunity for me, as I have always wanted to give back and to work with refugees and asylum seekers.
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Team London, a Mayor of London initiative, funded our Risers’ Programme Cohort #5, which supports young refugees and people seeking asylum with two months work experience, training and mentoring support.
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The amazing part of volunteering with Breadwinners is that we get to be a part of an extremely diverse community. It’s a wonderful platform from which you can learn more about other cultures
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