NEW Blog! UK EXCEPT project Youth Ambassador’s perspective on youth unemployment

Patrick Cantellow, an 18-year-old social entrepreneur from Sittingbourne, Kent is the Youth Ambassador for the UK EXCEPT project team. Aged 15 he founded Swale Young People, an organisation that takes an innovative digital approach to youth empowerment. Patrick is also an Ambassador for a number of organisations across London and the South East, notably the NSPCC, CXK and Youth Employment UK. ​

In this blogpost, he gives a young person’s perspective on unemployment and talks about some of the early findings coming from the EXCEPT project. “….I have taken a huge interest in the EXCEPT project, and here I share some of the findings that I found most interesting, from my perspective – an 18 year old guy from Kent, south-east England.”

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Find out more about this project, funded by EU HORIZON 2020 on the EXCEPT website >