upReach 2024-27 Stategy - Flipbook - Page 6
Our theory of change
upReach’s vision is of a society where everybody has an equal opportunity to realise their full
career potential, regardless of social background.
Driven by this vision, we support undergraduates from lower socio-economic backgrounds
to access and sustain top graduate employment. We take a double bene昀椀t approach to
transforming social mobility: empowering the individual and transforming society.
Empowering the individual
We help undergraduates who meet our eligibility criteria to develop key employability
skills, build networks, and increase their con昀椀dence of success in the graduate
labour market. To do this, we offer 15 targeted activities (such as CV-building and
mock interviews).
What makes us special is the highly personalised support we provide. On a one-to-one basis,
undergraduates are supported through every step of their career journey. We also collaborate with
universities to ensure our targeted activities complement the career support they already offer.
Our support is enhanced by our employer partners, who offer our undergraduates exclusive
opportunities whilst improving their own talent pipeline. Some of the ways we collaborate with
partners include:
Recruiting Top
Talent and
Supporting
Applications
Insight Days
Work Experience
and Internships
Professional
Mentoring
Once our undergraduates have started work, we help them ‘get on after getting in’, providing
professional development courses and connecting them with peers from a similar background
through our Alumni network. Many become our biggest champions, helping us support the next
generation of undergraduates from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
Our eligibility criteria (for more information, see our applications page)
Attended UK state
schools only
6
Household income below
£42,620
BBB (contextualised) at
A-Level (or equivalent)
