Your Trust supports a number of community initiatives aimed at opening up education and helping provide opportunities to gain useful employment, providing funding which helps the initiatives plan their work from year-to-year. 

• Spear Clapham Junction works with unemployed young people facing different challenges and barriers getting into work or education. Spear offers a free six-week employment training programme which addresses the issues that often stop young people succeeding in the workplace. These include attitude and motivation, life skills for the workplace, job search skills and interview skills. Young people come to Spear from local job centres, housing associations and community organizations. With 75% of graduates in work or training a year later, the Spear course is highly commended for its effectiveness and cost-efficiency. Click here for more information about Spear.

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• Universify Education is an education charity committed to tackling educational inequality. It seeks that universities be open to anyone with academic potential regardless of background. The Universify Education year-long programme helps equip Year 11 students from non-selective state schools with the grades, aspirations and knowledge to successfully apply to high-selective universities. Universify Education wants its participants to achieve their potential in education by making informed decisions about their futures. Click here for more information about Universify.

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