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What is it about?
 
Refugee Enterprise in Action (CREATE) is a unique programme of workshops, meetings and visits inspiring refugees to get to the front of the queue for jobs through:
  • Networking with business professionals
  • Earning certificates for training modules
  • Learning how to set up a self-run business
West London refugees with top executives from Lilly Pharmaceuticals 
 
What are the benefits?
 
The programme supports and empowers refugees, waking them up to their skills and motivating them to become productive and fulfilled citizens. This project is supported by the LDA, the Mayor of London's Agency for sustainable economic development. The LDA's Opportunities Fund enables refugees to share in the opportunities for work and enterprise in London.

 
A refugee leadership group at asession at the Royal Bank of Scotland
 
The programme is free and open to anyone who came to Britain as a refugee and has the right to work but is currently unemployed. Twist is keen to include women and people with disabilities or disadvantages who are eager to start work, with language and IT support available and childcare provided in most cases.

 
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