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With the start of the 2017 mentoring cycle fast-approaching, we have been busy meeting new mentors at our launch events in Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London and Manchester. The launch events are designed to welcome new mentors onto the programme, and equip them with the knowledge they need before embarking on their mentoring relationship. Mentors […]
Last year saw the launch of One +1, our work experience campaign to encourage those offering work experience to young people they know to ‘match’ their offer with another for a young person supported by the SMF. The campaign targeted four key professional sectors: Engineering, Finance, Science and Medicine. After a successful campaign, which saw […]
Each year, Social Mobility Foundation students progress from university to careers with a wide range of top employers across the country. Our alumni network is an integral part of what we do, helping professionals to connect to others in their sector from similar backgrounds, enhance their skills and raise awareness of the SMF in their […]
Students on the SMF programme gain a wide range of exciting experiences, either in their home city or through one of the residentials. We asked three of our students to share some of their experiences with you: Felicity, Politics Being a member of the Social Mobility Foundation has opened up many doors for me, and […]
The Social Mobility Employer Index (The Index), which launched this month, is a joint initiative between the Social Mobility Foundation and the Social Mobility Commission. It will collect data from participating organisations about their social mobility work across a range of different areas, and a list of the highest scoring firms will then be published […]
A core pillar of the SMF’s Aspiring Professionals Programme is e-mentoring, where students are matched with a professional who works in the career or sector the student would like to enter. We asked one of our mentoring pairs, Catherine and Safah, about their first impressions of each other, and the programme. Here’s what they had […]
At the beginnng of the year, the Social Mobility Commission’s Index ranked all areas in England from 1 to 324 on how good they are for social mobility; the top 20% of areas were ranked as social mobility ‘hot spots’ and the bottom 20% as ‘cold spots’. While 30 of London’s 32 boroughs are hot spots, three […]
It has been a whirlwind of activity so far this year for our undergraduates. As we come to the mid-way point of the busy summer period, they are certainly dispelling any myths about work-shy students. With 12 events already under our belts, we have another 20 planned before the year is out. These cover everything […]
‘Unforgettable’, ‘momentous’, ‘fascinating’. You would be forgiven for assuming we are grasping for words to capture recent weeks in British politics. In fact, these are just some of the ways the 27 SMF students who were selected from across the country to join an exclusive tour of No 10 Downing Street described the experience. The students […]
Over the last month, the Social Mobility Foundation’s (SMF) Year 12/S5 students have been busy getting their online mentoring relationship off the ground. Students are matched with mentor for a year from within the career sector they hope to enter. We have a fantastic pool of mentors, each bringing with them their own story and […]
