I am excited to share that LinkedIn has selected us as one of their Global Refugee Fund partners, created to reach up to 12,000 job-ready refugees globally. The discussions have taken some months but this is great news for us and a move for LinkedIn to acknowledge the role entrepreneurship makes in increasing employment options for individuals and others. The skills of entrepreneurship are not just for founders after all!
Last year we piloted a programme for Ukrainian female founders and the learning from this has reshaped the delivery and framework of our current programme. Whilst we will again focus on supporting Ukrainian female founders, we will look later in the year at widening the opportunity to include other refugee groups in the UK.
With other partners in the fund, we will be working with LinkedIn to promote World Refugee Week 19th - 25th June, more about this to come. Other recipients of support from LinkedIn's GRF include organisations from a range of countries, we will be developing these relationships
❓ if other GEN countries have contacts with any of these partners or are running refugee entrepreneurship programmes please connect with me to explore opportunities for collaboration