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The Urban Construction Initiative is a construction-based social enterprise with the core aim of securing tangible employment opportunities for local people, initially in East Leeds.

Nadeem Shair, the entrepreneur behind Urban Construction, was eager to find support to help develop the commercial infrastructure of the company to ensure that the business was judged upon its merit as a professional contractor, rather than a social project or charity. Leeds Ahead found the perfect match in mentor and accountant John Hayton.

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