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Babbasa celebrates ten years of empowering under-represented young people
A Bristol-based social enterprise which works to transform the lives of young people from ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds is celebrating its tenth birthday.
Since its founding in 2013, Babbasa has helped support more than 4,000 people from more than 60 cultural groups across the city, providing mentoring, skills training and recruitment support to advance their professional ambitions.
The milestone celebration comes following the launch of Babbasa’s Our City 2030 campaign, which is aiming to support young people from low-income households, starting from inner city Bristol, to secure a median salary role by 2030.
Poku Osei, founder and CEO of Babbasa said: “It fills me with immense pride to celebrate a decade of Babbasa.
“When I started back in 2013 it was with a vision to help create a world where young people living in areas of disadvantage are inspired and able to realise their employment and enterprise ambitions – irrespective of where they live, their nationality, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality, or faith.
“Ten years on I am proud to see the thousands of people we have been able to help and how so many of them have developed the skills and confidence to pursue a professional future in roles and industries that interest them.”
While Poku Osei, founder and CEO of Babbasa, says he is proud of the work they have done to date, he says there is still much more to be done – photo: Ellie Pipe
Over the last decade, Babbasa’s offer has evolved to include recruitment and inclusion services, focused on supporting organisations to diversify their workforce and create inclusive working environments.
This has included their recent partnership with Bristol Creative Industries to create a city-wide internship programme.
The initiative was designed to help young people from under-represented backgrounds into paid roles within the creative sector and has just seen its first cohort of 14 start roles in many of the city’s leading creative businesses.
Poku continued: “While I am proud of the work we have done to date, and the incredible the team and our extended network does every single day, there is still much more to be done.
“The Our City 2030 campaign will be our core focus for the next ten years as we aim to lift individuals out of poverty, increase representation at the workplace and create new generation of role models for society.
“It will act as a catalyst for Bristol to become a world-class model city for inclusive growth.”
Main photo: Ambitious PR
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