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Our Business Council is at the heart of the Jobs Foundation, being both the driving engine and the delivery vehicle for our mission. Our Business Council ensures that our work is always anchored by the entrepreneurs, business leaders and job creators across the country.

Our Business Council is open to any senior person in business who believes in our mission. We are recruiting a coalition spanning the smallest businesses all the way up to large corporates, from all sectors and all parts of the UK.

Our Business Council members drive both our policy and practical work. They give us the knowledge and best practice on training and recruiting people from disadvantage, and they feed into our policy work so that we can help advocate for the needs of business. They also attend our events and help grow our network. In 2025, we hope to launch Regional Councils, growing our on-the-ground presence in communities across the country.

Join our Business Council and be part of the journey.

1. Join our Business Council: If you share our belief that business is a force for good, and wish to do more to help people in need, join our national coalition of business leaders and entrepreneurs as part of our Business Council.
2. Attend an event: We run a comprehensive programme of events, both online and in person. We want to see our members at our events, so that we can learn from your business in our work, but also to inform and inspire business leaders about topical issues and best practice to help support your business to thrive.
3. Feed into our policy work: Submit a response to one of our quarterly business leader surveys. This will help us understand the issues impacting businesses and be an advocate for the solutions that will help businesses thrive.
4. Tell us about your company: We want to hear your stories about how your business has helped support people in your local community, helping drive our research work over 2025.
5. Learn from the best: Through our Business Council, we want to see business leaders learn from their peers about how they can support local communities through providing jobs and training.
6. A positive case for business: Working with business leaders and entrepreneurs, we want to help people in disadvantaged circumstances, share these stories online and in the media, and use that coverage to recruit even more people to our Business Council.

Over 2024, we recruited a thousand business leaders to join our Business Council. Our journey doesn't stop here: we want to continue to expand our coalition so that we can support more businesses to help people from disadvantaged backgrounds through employment and training. Our Business Council will continue to drive our work throughout 2025. Share your stories with us. Tell us how your business has helped employees and the local community. We know many businesses already do this fantastic work in a range of ways and we want to learn from you and demonstrate that business is a force for good.

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