To mark Careers in Ideas Week (16-22 November 2020), we’ve been running a series of posts featuring relevant charities and community interest groups. All of these have an interest in promoting social mobility as well as, in many cases, other forms of diversity.
They’ve kindly provided information about the work each of them does and how the IP professions can get involved. Their suggestions will help you identify opportunities to give back to the community whilst also improving diversity within the IP sector – and ensure that the support you provide reaches the right people, in the right way.
Here we feature The Sutton Trust, who work to improve access to careers in the law, banking and finance, engineering, and medicine, specifically for those from less privileged backgrounds. Among other things, they publish an incredibly useful employer’s guide to social mobility in the workplace, which as you’ll see below, they’re keen to share with IP sector employers.
You can access a full Careers in Ideas directory of outreach organisations here, and read more about the listed organisations on our Careers in Ideas Week page.
What does The Sutton Trust do to improve social mobility and access to the professions?
The Sutton Trust champions social mobility from birth to the workplace so that every young person – no matter who their parents are, what school they go to, or where they live – has the chance to succeed in life. Using our distinctive “do-tank” model, we support beneficiaries directly through our programmes whilst simultaneously publishing research and policy recommendations that keep Britain’s social mobility challenge high on the agenda for government and the media.
“Joining the pathways programme has been the best thing I have ever done for myself. I send the biggest thank you to all of the team, you truly have changed my future for the better and have given me an amazing experience and I could not be more grateful.” Pathways participant
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