Tent Named to TIME100 Most Influential Companies ListTent UK is a coalition of 70 major companies from across the country stepping up to help refugees enter the British labour market through job preparation and employment.
By joining Tent UK, companies will have access to:
- Tailored advice for companies on how to set up successful refugee-hiring programmes
- Resources, trainings, and best practices, distilled from Tent’s global network of companies and tailored to the UK context
- Peer-to-peer learning and regular convenings with member companies
- Recommendations on best-in-class partners that can connect companies to refugee talent
- Opportunities to coordinate with other companies to overcome structural challenges to hiring and integrating refugees
- Tent’s professional mentorship programmes, which pair employees with refugees
- Communications guidance and opportunities to amplify companies’ efforts
Stepping Up to Integrate Refugees In the UK
The UK has welcomed more than 500,000 refugees in recent years – including approximately half from Ukraine. Despite ongoing political tensions, businesses across the country are stepping up to hire, train, and mentor refugees – a critical step towards accelerating their economic integration in the UK.
Companies Across the UK Are Stepping Up
Dozens of leading companies have already joined Tent UK, and are either piloting new projects to hire, train, and mentor refugees, or are scaling their existing efforts across the country to help refugees enter the labor market.
