BOOST is an employment, benefit advice, skills and wellbeing project helping Barnet residents, and is part of The Barnet Group. Since the war in Ukraine last year many refugees arrived in Barnet, and BOOST has set up a special employment project to help them.
One of BOOSTs Employment Advisors is Olesia , who herself is Ukrainian. Her post is funded by the charity World Jewish Relief (WJR) who run the Specialist Training and Employment Programme (STEP) for resettled refugees in the UK, in partnership with the Home Office.
Olesia’s role is to support 50 Ukrainian resettled refugees in Barnet through a targeted employment programme that addresses the complex barriers resettled refugees face in preparing for, and ultimately finding work in the UK. The objective is to enable beneficiaries to become economically independent and self-reliant. Central to the programme is the provision of extensive and intensive personalised support.