2022 Shortlisted Nominee Social Mobility Project Award Severn Trent was named as one of the country’s top-performing companies for improving social mobility. The company carried out a review and redesign of their early career’s recruitment processes, looking at the performance of recent recruits to understand how they were performing against the company’s values. As a result, they removed two of t... »
2022 Shortlisted Nominee Social Mobility Project Award The University of Sunderland is renowned for its supportive and nurturing approach to students, ensuring that everyone regardless of their background has the opportunity to reach their full potential within higher education. In 2016, a unique support framework was introduced for those who were care-experienced or estranged from their parents/c... »
2022 Shortlisted Nominee Social Mobility Project Award The Pathways to Law consortium of corporate partners collectively fund and support the delivery of The Sutton Trust’s longest running careers programme. The aim of the programme is to open up access to the competitive legal sector for talented, disadvantaged young people and to allow them to explore what a career in the legal profession might ... »
2022 Shortlisted Nominee Social Mobility Project Award United Utilities has demonstrated significant leading practice in directing its efforts to boost social mobility in local communities and to groups that are the furthest away from opportunity, and those in the most vulnerable circumstances. This leading practice has been demonstrated through its own targeting of efforts and resources to the vu... »
2022 Shortlisted Nominee Social Mobility Project Award Auto Trader UK have evolved their strategy for Educational Outreach, and inspiring future talent to consider a career in Digital Tech by putting Social Mobility at the heart of all their efforts. Building on the success of previous years, the last twelve months have inspired colleagues from across the business to join forces with schools, coll... »
2022 Shortlisted Nominee Social Mobility Project Award For four years Penguin Random House (PRH) have run 450 paid, randomly selected work experience opportunities and JobHacks: free day-long interactive workshops in social mobility coldspots across the UK. Both help young people experience the variety of roles within publishing and pivoted to virtual in 2021. PRH’s entry-level programme, The Sche... »