Unlock your potential with the Aspiring Professionals Programme
The Aspiring Professionals Programme APP (Social Mobility Foundation) supports high achieving Yr12 students through their App City programmes gain access to top Universities and Employers for their chosen career and gain first hand experience in top professions
We offer support on APP City to young people interested in our 11 available career sectors who live in proximity of an APP City: Accountancy, Architecture, Banking & Finance, Biology & Chemistry, Business, Digital, Engineering & Physics, Law, Media & Communications, Medicine, and Politics. Further detail can be found on our website.
APP Reach
Students anywhere in the UK who do not meet our location criteria for APP City and have ambition to go to university can apply for APP Reach. Find out more on our website.
If successful you will: Attend university and employer workshops for your chosen career / degree area, get a sector specific professional mentor, take part in work experience internships next Summer with top employers in your sector and join top Universities Summer Schools for the Degree Subject you aspire to!
“The APP City programme and workshops are really beneficial for me in terms of allowing me to gain a better insight and understanding into progressing further in my career aspirations” – Aicha, 2023 cohort
"Honestly one of the best things I have ever done, not just in terms of the career insight and experience, but also the friends I had made from the programme” John, 2023 Cohort
Eligibility
You'll need at LEAST 3 GCSEs AT GRADE 7 or equivalent and meet ONE or TWO of the following:
Your Parents did not attend University in the UK or if they did it was as a mature student
Your Parents household income is lower than £45,000
Your highest-paid parent or guardian job is in our target occupation groups (the application form will tell you this), or is unemployed
Eligible for Free School Meals
Are care experienced
Deadline to Apply is 12pm Fri 13th December.
Watch the video below to hear from SMF students -
More information and links here - https://www.socialmobility.org.uk/student