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Evening Standard
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David Cohen

Fourth partner to upskill young unemployed announced as jobs pledged passes 150 mark

Jobs success: Brandon Charles, founder Duro Oye, and Emmanuella Owusu-Ansah

(Picture: Matt Writtle)

A youth empowerment organisation that helps black and minority ethnic university graduates overcome barriers to employment by changing their mindset and helping them network has become the fourth beneficiary of our £1M Skill Up Step Up campaign in partnership with Barclays LifeSkills.

2020 Change, founded by Duro Oye, works with jobless youths from under-represented ethnic groups, many of them graduates who are the first in their family to go to university but lack connections and social capital for breaking into creative industry and white collar jobs.

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