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Babbasa partners up with Our Media
Our Media, a Bristol-based specialist content company, has announced a partnership with award-winning youth empowerment social enterprise, Babbasa.
The exciting partnership will focus on helping young people find high quality job opportunities and will lend significant support for Babbasa’s future growth.
The partnership follows Babbasa’s Bridge to Equality Report, which found that young people in Bristol anticipate less stable employment opportunities than before Covid-19. This reflects a national picture, where 40 per cent of young people see their future career prospects as ‘bleak’, with 14 per cent experiencing fear.
Many young people also reported that, though their career goals did not change, they feel ‘stuck’ and ‘frustrated’ due to their inability to progress in the current job climate.
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Whilst support will include charity fundraising and mentoring, both companies also hope the partnership will offer more direct support through offering jobs and work experience for Babbasa’s young people at Our Media.
Commenting on the partnership, Andy Marshall, chief executive of Our Media said: “Babbasa is a fantastic enterprise, and we’re delighted to support their important work, providing young people in Bristol with the opportunities to realise their career ambitions.”
The partnership is a step to widening their reach across the city – and a necessary one if Bristol is to reduce the inequality gap. A 2017 report conducted by the Runnymede Trust found that Bristol was the seventh most unequal local authority in the UK. Over sixty per cent of ethnic minorities in Bristol live in the inner-city areas of economic disadvantage.
Poku Osei, founder and cheif executive of Babbasa has praised the collaboration, saying: “We are hugely grateful to Our Media for their generous support and we look forward to working closely with them to help meet the needs of disadvantaged and diverse young people to support them to gain meaningful employment.”
Babbasa has made a name for itself in the Bristol community through its commitment to supporting young people from ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds achieve their professional ambitions. It has worked over the last few years to tackle social and economic disadvantage amongst over 3,000 young people from the inner city.
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Read more: Poku Osei: ‘How do we not leave a whole generation behind?’
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