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The damaging effects of unemployment

When discussing refugee resettlement, we often highlight the value of employment as a route to integration and independence. We know that moving people into work is important for personal development and for thriving communities: but is this understating the human cost of the issue? To look at it from a different angle, what is the damage of not getting people into sustainable employment?
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Refugee Week: Why we need year-round conversations

Every day of every year

At ACH we want to keep these celebrations, these conversations and these dialogues going every day of every year.

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Lydia Samuel

Refugee and Migrant Entrepreneurship: Rebuilding resilience post COVID-19

Through our work and research into refugee and migrant entrepreneurship, we've found that businesses face blocked access to mainstream business support:

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ACH refugee week

How to celebrate Refugee Week with ACH

The theme of this year’s Refugee Week is: IMAGINE.

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Fuad Mahamed speaking

How to restart an inclusive economy in Bristol post-COVID-19: A report by Fuad Mahamed

Read the full report here:

 

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robot & AI

Bob UK: How AI will improve careers advice

AI is a sensitive topic because it questions our human nature, its possible dominance on earth (if we're including all the theories in), but most importantly our professional stability. 

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Thanh Quan Nicholls and Lydia Samuel

Navigating Business: An interview with Thanh Quan-Nicholls

Can you tell us a bit about your background?

My family were Chinese-Vietnamese. In 1978 there

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Covid-19

Helping businesses through COVID-19: A handbook

Our Refugee Entrepreneurship Project works with businesses and entrepreneurs in Bristol from a refugee or migrant background, to help them to access business support opportunities, get ideas off the ground and take their businesses to the next level.

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Richard Thickpenny

Bob UK the AI-powered job counsellor: ACH named a finalist in the Career Tech Challenge

This prestigious nomination from Career Tech Challenges includes a grant of £50,000 to develop and test Bob-UK, before a winner is announced in March 2021.

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Food for delivery

Supporting our tenants through difficult times

At ACH we run supported housing for newly arrived refugees in Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Bristol.

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