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In 2012, my diamond trading business closed, another victim of the fall out of the Lehman banking crisis and general economic downturn. I was 42, married with 4 children and without a source of income. I decided then and there that I couldn’t and wouldn’t sit around, feeling angry and upset; instead I needed to...
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Charlie Gothold, Co-Founder and Director at SchoolHire and former WE Hub member, shares his Work Avenue journey. TELL US ABOUT SCHOOL HIRE School Hire is a wonderfully simple online portal that allows people to find, book and pay for a facility that suits them in schools and colleges in their area, operating nationwide. WHAT WERE YOU DOING BEFORE? I...
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LEAH NEVIES WAS A DELEGATE ON OUR EMPOWERING WOMEN FOR WORK FLAGSHIP PROGRAMME. WHY DID YOU APPROACH WORK AVENUE? I hadn’t worked for years, and had lost confidence and self-belief. I spotted a Work Avenue advert for a new programme called Empowering Women for Work, helping people like me who had not worked for a long time...
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