‘Unemployable’: Simon Weston helps launch £15m factory creating hundreds of jobs for veterans - Cobseo - The Confederation of Service Charities
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Royal British Veterans Enterprise is launching a £15 million factory in Kent that will create hundreds of jobs and training placements for veterans and disabled people, with a Training Academy offering accredited qualifications. The project addresses employment gaps for disabled workers, with only 52.8% of disabled people in work compared to 82.5% of non-disabled people.
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Veterans’ charity is first to create opportunity on this scale, as it starts building a £15 million factory with hundreds of jobs and training places. After his Falklands injuries, Simon Weston weighed eight stone and had undergone 10 operations in 12 months. A resettlement officer saw him as, in Simon’s words, “basically unemployable”. Today, 44 years on, he joined Royal British Veterans Enterpri…
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