Opportunity knocks

The best way to engage with so-called 'hard to reach' groups can be as simple as knocking on doors, a successful City backed employment scheme is showing. Dermott Calpin reports.

Sandwiched between Liverpool Street Station and Brick Lane, Spitalfields is a lively, bustling mix of the ultra-chic and the everyday.

Like many areas in London it embodies all the contradictions of the capital, with great wealth alongside poverty, with some of the UK's highest levels of unemployment, particularly among the large Bangladeshi community.

The area has a long established association with the textile industry and immigration, from Huguenot silk merchants in the 17th Century to Jewish refugees and Irish weavers in the 19th Century and Bangladeshi immigrants in the mid-20th Century, but the area is undergoing a new wave of transformations.

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