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Football clubs kick off new work partnership
Birmingham Mail
|November 15, 2025
AGREEMENT WITH LEAGUE TO BOOST JOB PROSPECTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
chief policy and impact officer, Football Association Premier League), Guy Rippon, (head of the Aston Villa Foundation), Mayor Richard Parker, Will Clowes, (director of the Wolves Foundation), and Helene Dearn, (executive director of employment, skills, health and communities, WMCA)
ASTON Villa and Wolves have signed up to a pioneering new agreement with the Premier League aimed at boosting job prospects for young people in the West Midlands.
Mayor Richard Parker has agreed the deal with the Football Association as well as the charitable foundations of Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers to help tackle unemployment.
Figures show almost 29,000 young people in the West Midlands are currently out of work and it is hoped this new partnership will offer opportunities in the region.
This story is from the November 15, 2025 edition of Birmingham Mail.
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