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Jobs Foundation

We are a registered charity (1202928) that champions the role of business as a force for good, particularly the crucial role companies play giving people a step up in life by providing jobs and training.

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Research and policy papers on jobs, skills, and business as a force for good.

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Jobs and Education: Building the Bridge to Opportunity

Our latest report examining why over a million young people aren't in education, employment or training, and what schools and businesses can do to fix this.

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Jobs and Investment: Using untapped capital to boost productivity and growth

Jobs and Investment sets out a comprehensive roadmap to generate more investment in the UK, boosting productivity and growth and creating more new jobs.

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Cliff Edge: Jobs in Aberdeen, the epicentre of the UK’s energy transition – the full report

The Jobs Foundation’s latest report, Cliff Edge: Jobs in Aberdeen, the epicentre of the UK’s energy transition, is an in-depth study of not only the energy sector in Aberdeen and the way that sector is so central to all parts of the local economy there, but also UK energy policy in the round.

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Family Businesses Polling: Post-Budget Outlook and the Impact of Business Property Relief Changes

New research reveals deep pessimism among family businesses and growing concern over succession, investment, and the UK’s business environment.

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Ladders of Opportunity: How top UK businesses create new routes into work - the Full Report

Profiling the top businesses across the UK that are creating pathways for disadvantaged people into work: the second volume of our foundational research.

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Ladders of Opportunity: the Executive Summary

How top UK companies create new routes into work - the Executive Summary

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Jobs and Energy: The effect of high energy costs on the UK jobs market

The first in a series of research papers examining the core factors driving job creation and growth across the UK.

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Getting Britain Working: The case for Employer NICs relief on welfare to work

How to support 100,000 more people into employment.

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Two Million Jobs: the Executive Summary

How businesses play a crucial role in helping people from welfare into work – the Executive Summary

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Two Million Jobs: How businesses play a crucial role in helping people from welfare into work - the full report

After almost a year of work, interviewing hundreds of businesses and community leaders across Great Britain, the Jobs Foundation is launching its foundational research.

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Pembrokeshire: the cutting edge of Britain

A rural case study of how a plan for the future can change the fortunes of a whole county.

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Hartlepool: the coalface of change

A wider coastal town study of how ambition can replace poverty, including Cromer and Redcar.

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Loughborough: Looking to the future

A town case study for why institutions and connections matter.

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Sheffield: Forging steel and embracing tech

A city case study for how businesses assist mobility by providing jobs and training.

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A special lecture - 'In Praise of Business

A lecture outlining the empirical case for business as a force for good in society and exploring what can be done to change public attitudes, so policy makers properly recognise the essential role of business in creating prosperity.

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Business: A Force for Good

At this time of economic difficulty, employment is crucial.

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“Business: A force for good”

Jobs Foundation

We are a registered charity (1202928) that champions the role of business as a force for good, particularly the crucial role companies play giving people a step up in life by providing jobs and training.

4th Floor, 33 Cannon Street, London EC4M 5SB
info@thejobsfoundation.com · +44 (0)20 3475 1382

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