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CFE to pilot refugee entrepreneurship programmes across the UK
The Centre for Entrepreneurs is to conduct pilots, funded by the Home Office and The National Lottery Community Fund, to encourage the roll out of refugee entrepreneurship programmes across the UK.
Immigration minister Caroline Nokes MP announced the pilot, saying:
“The UK has a proud history of providing protection to those that need it and we are committed to making sure that refugees can successfully integrate to life in the UK.
This exciting new programme gives refugees the opportunity to build businesses, leading to further independence as they rebuild their lives in the UK”.
The one-year project will identify – through a competitive bidding process – three established local business support organisations to deliver tailored startup programmes that will take refugees from idea stage to business launch.
The pilots will build the evidence base, toolkit of resources, and community of business support organisations to help roll out refugee entrepreneurship programmes nationwide. It builds on the ‘Starting afresh‘ report that the Centre published last year.
- Read the Home Office press release here
- Learn more about the pilots and download the expression of interest form and supporting documents here
- Ask the project team a question via refugeepilot@centreforentrepreneurs.org
News
- BGF continues to build momentum as it reaches £2bn landmark with Merseyside investment (BQ)
- Business call to cut immigrant salary threshold (Fresh Business Thinking)
- Atomico co-founder and partner Mattias Ljungman is leaving to start his own seed fund (TechCrunch)
Opinion
- How do you increase your chances of startup success? (Brent Hoberman shares an update as Founders Factory approaches its 100th company)
- Female founders need funding, not another voluntary code (Sophia Matveeva, co-founder and chief exec, Enty)
- If we want to build a global Britain, the migrant salary cap must go (Blythe Edwards, intern, Institute for Economic Affairs)
- It’s time for the UK to lift the outdated ban on electric scooters (Ben Ramanauskas, policy analyst, Taxpayer’s Alliance)
- UK startups and scale-ups on target for record fundraising year (David Prosser, contributor, Forbes)
- Google and Facebook are sucking the brains out of Europe (Lionel Laurent, columnist, Bloomberg)
Features
- The reinvention of Portrush (a look back on Matthew Rock’s feature on the entrepreneurial revival of Portrush – first published in CFE’s ‘From ebb to flow‘ seaside entrepreneurship report)
- The Next Web: After endless conflicts, an entrepreneurial ecosystem blooms in Iraq
- Let’s get paid: An entrepreneur by destiny not accident (Michelle Ovens of peak b interviews Gary Turner of Xero)