More than 400 jobless young Londoners have been trained and over 200 of them have secured jobs or apprenticeships thanks to our Skill Up Step Up campaign, it was announced at a networking event in London this week.
In a panel discussion at the Canary Wharf headquarters of Barclays, who backed our two-year initiative with a £1m donation, formerly unemployed youths told a 100-strong audience how their lives had been transformed after getting new skills thanks to our campaign. “I know now that I am enough,” said one. “I feel there is no ceiling on what I can do,” said another. “I used to feel despair but now I have hope,” added a third.
