Businessman Fred Turok is the founder of youth employment charity TAG (Transforming a Generation)

Fred Turok is the founder of youth employment charity TAG (Transforming a Generation).

Based in Brixton, the charity helps 18 to 24-year-old jobseekers gain qualifications and work experience in the fitness industry.

Since being set up 2008, TAG has helped more than 2,000 young people find work in London and other cities in the UK.

By the end of 2011 it aims to have helped another 2,000 young people into employment.

Fred established the charity when he took a step back from the day-to-day running of gym chain LA Fitness, which he set up in the early 1990s.

The company now has almost 90 gyms and more than a quarter of a million members nationwide.

The charity realised a long-held ambition to help disenfranchised young people find a rewarding and fulfilling route into the world of work.

Fred, who moved to East Finchley from South Africa at the age of 13, spent a number of years working as a PE teacher in Wandsworth before setting-up LA Fitness and then TAG.

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