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Spurs provide employment opportunities to Armed Forces veterans

The event saw employers, including those involved in building the Club’s new 61,000-seater stadium, match veterans with live jobs.

Opportunities were also promoted within Tottenham Hotspur Foundation’s Construction Academy, which offers two weeks of training on the site of the stadium development project.

Recent research carried out by the Royal British Legion estimates that 120,000 veterans of working age in the UK are unemployed and looking for a job - about 11 per cent - amounting to more than twice the unemployment rate for the wider population.

BuildForce is an alliance of employers, industry bodies and service charities, supported by the government, which helps service leavers pursue careers in construction.