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Tottenham Hotspur expand local employment opportunities with new stadium development

Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur has hosted its first construction-focused jobs fair as part of its commitment to open up employment opportunities centred around its new stadium development to the local community.

The club invited 20 contractors and sub-contractors currently involved in the construction of its new 61,000-seater stadium to the event at its current White Hart Lane home to offer a mixture of live jobs and training opportunities to attendees.

The football club estimates that there will be around 3,000 construction jobs created during the life of the project, which is due to be completed by August 2018, and has committed to delivering direct employment opportunities to local residents.

To coincide with the first construction jobs fair, Spurs’ Club Foundation has launched its Construction Academy, a partnership with Barnet & Southgate College, Hereford Regional College and Waltham Forest College to address unemployment levels amongst 18-25 year olds in North London.

The academy will look to recruit teenagers interested in construction careers for two-week programmes that incorporate on-the-job training on the site of the new stadium.

The £400m development is part of wider regeneration in the Tottenham area which will deliver hundreds of new homes along with mixed-use developments and leisure facilities for the local community.