Hackney

Hackney has over 7,000 small businesses and a thriving creative sector. It also has a very high level of long term unemployed. ELBA's Hackney programme focuses on supporting enterprise, working with young people on employability and helping to raise aspirations as well as our long-standing community focus of capacity building of the voluntary and community sector.

Hackney Schools’ Mentoring Programme (HSMP) has supported over 5,000 young people since it began in 1996. A flagship education programme, it matches around 300 students each year with business mentors from City companies. We hope HSMP has had a small part to play in the increasing level of educational achievement at GCSE level in the borough. www.hsmp.org.uk

Project Shoreditch is a best practice partnership programme that has won many awards and recognition for the impact it makes by focusing support into a specific geographical area and by working closely with community partners such as the Shoreditch Trust. It began in April 2005, and with current partners British Land, Hammerson, Linklaters and UBS working with the Mayor's Fund for London, it continually focuses on the key issues and engages employee volunteers in everything from literacy festivals to enterprise support.

Project Central Hackney is a newer partnership programme launched in October 2010 focusing support from KPMG, Societe Generale and UBS into the Dalston and Hackney Central area facilitating social regeneration to accompany the large-scale physical regeneration happening. Encouraging senior level support to join boards and executive mentors, it also plays a part in supporting the City Academy engage with the local community and look at ways to raise the skills of the parents.

Uni-Place is funded by Macquarie Group Foundation and supports the Uni-Guide programme with sixth form students from Cardinal Pole School making the most of their choice of higher education. It also supports Business Club, an employability programme for Hackney undergraduates and graduates.

Across the rest of Hackney, member companies support in a huge variety of ways and we are always keen to welcome more businesses to join the programme. For more information contact Hackney Programme Director, Louise Muller: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

To view the latest quarterly report from the Hackney team click here.