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Working with FE colleges

10 Apr 2019

Brightside Project Manager Tom Greenidge describes the launch of our mentoring project with Pathways at Northampton College, and shares advice on the best ways to get FE students onboard and engaged with projects.

New partnership to help young people build essential skills

20 Mar 2019

We’re excited to be joining the Skills Builder Partnership, which brings together educators, employers and other skills-building organisations around a common language and approach to help young people develop eight essential skills they need to succeed.

Brightside and the Gatsby Benchmarks

04 Mar 2019

For National Careers Week, Brightside Project Manager Chris Mattinson explains how our mentoring projects can help schools to meet the Gatsby Good Career Guidance Benchmarks.

Joint statement on the Evidence and Impact Exchange

28 Feb 2019

Brightside and other social mobility charities welcome the announcement of a new 'What Works Centre' to promote access, success and progression in higher education for underrepresented groups of students.

Joint statement by the Russell Group and social mobility charities on the dangers of a university funding cut

22 Feb 2019

Brightside has issued a joint statement with the Russell Group of universities and seven other charities about funding cuts and a cap on student numbers.

Effective impact evaluation begins with understanding the impact you need to have

20 Feb 2019

Our Head of External Affairs Paul Clarke shares lessons from developing Brightside’s Theory of Change, and how such an approach can help universities improve evaluation.

Bridge Group report into geographical inequality

12 Feb 2019

Brightside's online mentoring is featured as a means of tackling challenges to progression to higher education for disadvantaged young people in rural and coastal communities in new research from The Bridge Group.

Office for Students research into pre-16 outreach

14 Dec 2018

Brightside's approach to evaluation and impact measurement is cited as an example of best practice in the Office for Students research into outreach interventions for pre-16 students.

Meeting with Sam Gyimah MP, Minister for Universities and Science

30 Nov 2018

A statement from our Chief Executive Anand Shukla and the CEOs of five other social mobility organisations after meeting the Universities and Science Minister to discuss university access.

Statement from social mobility charity CEOs in response to proposals for changes to higher education funding.

22 Nov 2018

Brightside and other third sector organisations are calling on the government to protect widening participation work.

New partnership will give more support for our former mentees

16 Nov 2018

Brightside will be collaborating with Bright Network to provide careers advice and guidance to our mentees that go on to higher education.

15th anniversary impact report

09 Nov 2018

We are proud to present our new report, which marks the milestone of Brightside supporting over 100,000 young people since 2003.