Breaking Barriers is a specialist charity helping refugees to find meaningful employment after they settled in the UK.

I’ve had the privilege of seeing the impact of their work first-hand, through my previous organisation, Kaplan International Languages, which supported their clients with English language provision. After leaving your home, it’s almost impossible to integrate, return to work, and build a new community without language. Watching doctors and nurses, hospitality professionals, accountants and many more requalify and begin new lives in the UK was humbling - and the determination of their clients truly inspiring.

This vital work and these transformational programmes wouldn’t be possible without the dedication of the teams behind them, the workplaces offering placements, and the language schools providing opportunities.

In an increasingly hostile political environment, this work feels more important than ever. If you’re able to support this fantastic organisation by sponsoring me with any amount, I would be immensely grateful.

Thanks to our supporters, Breaking Barriers offers 1-2-1 advice, education and work opportunities to overcome these challenges. People are able to re-qualify in their profession to get back to work, obtain the required English proficiency to integrated into their community, and begin the process of rebuilding their lives..