It’s no secret the UK workforce is fraught with inequality. The average UK gender pay gap is 16% and only 8% of FTSE 100 CEOs are women.
On top of this, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Black young people are more than twice as likely to be unemployed compared to their white peers. Much of this inequality stems from lack of confidence, skills and investment given to young girls, women, and people of colour in their teens.
By working with corporate organisations, we can deliver widespread, systemic interventions at a grass-roots level. With over half of our member youth clubs being in the 30% most deprived areas in the UK, we can focus our approaches and opportunities on groups at higher risk of falling into poverty and the traps of generational unemployment.
So, our main objectives are to: equip young Londoners with skills they need to enter the workplace, provide meaningful opportunities for corporates to support young people, use targeted development programmes to tackle racial and gender inequality, and help tackle poverty.
