Realising potential
Increasing social mobility underpins our work in education and is key to how we foster opportunity, with grants awarded to long-term partners and new initiatives.
Social mobility is the idea that every child or young person facing economic disadvantage is supported to realise their full potential, whatever pathways they choose to pursue.
The Leathersellers’ definition of social mobility.
RESEARCH
Social Mobility Landscape Review
Utilising the support of a specialist consultancy in the education sector, we commissioned a landscape review to provide greater context of different approaches to social mobility over the years. A summary and full report were produced.
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Read more about the impact of our programmes
Freedom to study, Freedom to make a difference
How Leathersellers’ Student Grants are helping people to pursue their passions at university and set their course for the future.
Read moreBoosting opportunity at the Leathersellers’ Federation of Schools
School led and backed by research: a new social mobility project has created the dream job for Learning Mentor Cherisa Kya-Scott.
Read moreLife-changing
Celebrating the long-term success of the Leathersellers’ scholarships at Colfe’s School.
Life-Changing
The role of mentors in social mobility
How a supportive ecosystem of teachers and mentors helped one student to find a different route into higher education.
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