“If it wasn’t for Grit, I probably wouldn’t have made it to year 11. I’d probably have been excluded or at least got very bad GCSE grades.”
The likelihood of a young person from an under-resourced community getting to university is some 20% less than their better-resourced peers. The barriers are immense: an education interrupted by the pandemic, mounting mental health challenges, increasing disparities across the economic divide about who gets into, and who gets on, at university.
We want to build a programme for 50 young people aged 14-16 who have little aspiration for their future, little expectation that their lives will be any different to their parents’ or grandparents’ lives.
We want to enable them, at one of the most significant turning points, to choose a new direction, get the most out of their time in education and, just like their peers, go on to have a fulfilling and rewarding future.
We want them to see that university is a possibility for someone like them and to develop the motivation, the confidence and the focus to get there.
Our tough, intense and uncompromising personal development and coaching programmes transform outcomes for young people who have the odds stacked against them. The work is difficult and demanding, complex and time consuming, but it gets results.
We are looking for donors to come alongside us. Our target is to secure £50,000 so we can increase the number of young people we support in this academic year.
Our request to you is for a contribution of further £5,000 (or £4,000 if you are able to Gift Aid your donation).
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