The British Hospitality Association’s (BHA) national campaign The Big Hospitality Conversation has teamed up with Tottenham Hotspur Foundation to generate job opportunities, work placements and apprenticeships in the hospitality sector for 16-24 year old Haringey residents.
Over 100 top business executives, of the hospitality and tourism industry will descend on White Hart Lane stadium on Tuesday 10 February to meet jobseekers in person and to offer employment advice, as well as real opportunities to kickstart new careers in the industry.
Household names including Costa, Hilton and Nandos will be pledging live job and training vacancies throughout the day, alongside Tottenham Hotspur Foundation’s education and employment team who will be on hand to offer practical employability advice and guidance on gaining relevant qualifications, interview techniques and careers choices.
Delivered in partnership with Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, Department for Work and Pensions and Haringey Council, this year’s Big Hospitality Conversation is the first of its kind to be delivered in partnership with a Premier League football club. Previous events have generated over 38,000 job opportunities for young people in the hospitality and tourism industries.
Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, the charitable arm of Tottenham Hotspur football club, has already created over 600 job opportunities for Haringey residents via jobs fairs, apprenticeship schemes and partner initiatives through a unique partnership with Haringey Council and the Department for Work and Pensions.
Donna Cullen, Executive Director, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, said:
“Holding The Big Hospitality Conversation at White Hart Lane represents another significant step in the Club’s continued drive to create employment opportunities for local people, using the unique appeal of Tottenham Hotspur. Through our partnership with the Department for Work and Pensions and Haringey Council, we are proud to have created over 600 job opportunities in less than two years, and this figure will continue to rise as the sport-led regeneration of Tottenham takes place.
“The Big Hospitality Conversation is just one of the many jobs fairs and careers events that take place at White Hart Lane on a regular basis, and our award-winning Foundation is now increasing this offering to local people with the introduction of a state-of-the-art Digivan, which is Tottenham Hotspur-branded and fully equipped to provide a mobile careers and employment advice service that can access some of the most hard-to-reach groups within our community.”
2015 sees an ambitious programme for The Big Hospitality Conversation campaign, which will seek to generate further job opportunities across the UK at venues including Nottingham, Sheffield, Newcastle, Swansea, Belfast, Lambeth, Cardiff, Hackney, Legoland, Llandudno, Dundee / Perth, Preston / Blackpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Exeter, Maidstone, and the Isle of Wight.
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