Poku Osei (Babbasa CEO and founder) will be transitioning into a new ‘Founding Director’ role, and a new CEO will be recruited. What will Poku do in this new role? Poku’s new role will focus on exploring the expansion of Babbasa into other cities, and overseeing OurCity2030 (acting as the OurCity2030 Transformation Lead).

Jan 2, 2024 · Babbasa claims to have helped more than 3,000 young people from about 70 cultural groups in Bristol progress their chosen career. CEO Poku Osei said he now wants to unlock potential in other...

Aug 3, 2023 · In the wake of the recent murder of St Pauls teenager Eddie King Muthemba Kinuthia, Neil talks to Poku Osei from Babbasa who aim to empower young people from local income and ethnic minority households.

Jul 10, 2023 · Babbasa is a social enterprise that helps young people from ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds in Bristol start their journey into work. Founder and CEO Poku Osei recently received a...

Mar 20, 2024 · He is the founder and CEO of Bristol-based social enterprise Babbasa, the first black-led social enterprise to win the prestigious Queen's Award For Enterprise (Social Mobility) in 2020, awarded for transforming the lives of more than 2,200 ethnic minority young people in …

As a passionate resident and founder of an award-winning social enterprise in the city, there are three things that come to mind to help tackle the issue: 1. Invest in social innovation – For far too long the idea of social innovation has been relegated to the nonprofit sector.

Oct 22, 2024 · Poku Osei’s journey from Ghana to the UK in 2008 led him to establish Babbasa, an organisation dedicated to supporting young people from low-income and ethnic minority backgrounds.

Poku Osei (BA, PGCert, MSc) is a respected social entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of award-winning youth empowerment organisation, Babbasa. Babbasa is now a Queen’s Award Winning enterprise, which has supported over 2,200 young people to date.

Nov 9, 2021 · Poku Osei is more determined than ever to tackle inequalities in Bristol and level the playing field in the wake of the pandemic. “It’s thinking about what a new norm could look like and how do we not leave a whole generation behind,” says the founder and CEO of social enterprise Babbasa.

Sep 25, 2023 · Poku Osei, who founded Babbasa in 2013 and is its current CEO, has said he will transitioning to the new role of founding director. In Babbasa’s September newsletter, Osei writes that his new role is part of the St Paul’s-based social enterprise’s growth ambitions.