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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Cohen

Skill Up Step Up: Fourth partner joins our campaign to help young unemployed as more than 150 jobs pledged

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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