The need for our services is accelerating.
There are currently more than 500,000 refugees in the UK, a number that has more than doubled in the past five years. Despite their often urgent need to start work, refugees are still around three times more likely to be unemployed and face huge barriers to gaining meaningful employment.
This must change. We want to ensure that every refugee can access meaningful employment and build a new life.
Building on the success of our Employability Programme in London, West Midlands, North West and Glasgow, in December 2024 we integrated partner organisation RefuAid’s Language and Re-accreditation Programmes into our service offering. This integration has expanded our geographic reach, our expertise, and the types of support we can offer clients.
Now, having marked 10 years since the start of our mission, and in the context of significant changes to both the external environment and the job market our clients face, we are embarking upon the process of creating a new multi-year strategy.
The foundations for this strategy have already been laid, with the refresh of our Theory of Change, the development of new strategic principles and ongoing work on a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework that will enable us to better track the impact of our programmes on the lives of our refugee clients.
In the coming months, we will be weaving these strands of activity together, and consulting with our Lived Experience Panel, clients, funders, partners and supporters, to launch a strategy that will drive even greater impact for the community that we serve.
We look forward to publishing the new strategy here in 2026.