Social Mobility Foundation Information Received Today - please follow up and discuss with staff if interested

Dear Mr Gimson,

I hope you’re well. My name is Richard and I am emailing on behalf of an organisation called the Social Mobility Foundation. I tried to contact you this morning but was unable to reach you by telephone. I hope you don’t mind me emailing you with details of some of our free of charge summer work experience programmes.

I was calling to check that you had received our promotional materials regarding our free of charge Aspiring Professionals Programme? The programme supports high-achieving year 12 students from low-income backgrounds access top universities and professions.

We offer support through our four pillars:

1.       Mentoring by a professional via email

2.       Tailored skills sessions and career workshops

3.       University application support and guidance

4.       Internships with top employers

How students receive our four pillars of support is dependent on where they live. Further details below.

Watch our video to hear from SMF students.

Students must meet our eligibility criteria, set out below. We do take extenuating circumstances into account, so if there are children in care, for example, even though they might not reach the academic criteria, we will look at their application on an individual basis.

Academic Criteria

Ø  Year 12

Ø  Achieved 5 A grades at GCSE or 4 A grades if your schools GCSE pass rate is below 50%

Ø  Predicted ABB at A Level (AAB for the APP J.P. Morgan Residential)

Background Criteria

Ø  Students must have been either eligible for Free School Meals any time since Year 7 (the income of the parent[s] they live with is/was below £16,190)

OR

Ø  Be the first generation of their family to be going to university and undertook their GCSEs at a school where 20% or more students are on Free School Meals

APP Residential

APP Residential offers the opportunity to undertake a one or two week internship with a top employer in London with all expenses paid. Whilst on their residential and in addition to the internship, students receive skill sessions and university application support. They also receive a mentor will be from the employer that they undertake their placement with.  We also continue to support these students throughout university until they are in full time employment.

APP Residential is available to students interested in:

Accountancy (KPMG)| Banking & Finance (J.P. Morgan)| Engineering & Physics (CH2M) | Law | Medicine (NHS)

APP Reach

We are very keen to work with schools, colleges and parts of the country that do not usually have young people on our programme. Therefore if this applies to you and your top achievers don’t quite meet our criteria, you should encourage them to apply as they may be eligible to receive support. APP Reach is designed to offer as many aspects of our programme as we can to people who could benefit from our activities and resources, subject to our capacity and their location. All students will receive a mentor and access to online resources. To find out more about APP Reach, please contact us.

Students must apply by 9am, Monday 19th December 2016 by completing our application form here.