The IntoUniversity scheme had been running successfully in London for five years. Around 60 young people  from families with no prior history of higher education had gone to university as a result of the support offered by IntoUniversity.  The leadership team approached us with a clear vision and a strong model of delivery, at the same time recognising the need for support in the first phase of growth, to five new centres.  This was also an opportunity to partner with the Sutton Trust and to leverage our mutual resources in an important area of need, that of widening access to higher education. 

For IntoUniversity to be recognised nationally as a model of excellence for widening the participation of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in higher education by:

• Developing a replicable and sustainable model of integrated after-school study support
• Reaching more than 11,000 young people from disadvantaged backgrounds across six centres by 2010, enabling them to improve their academic achievement and long term life chances

Key achievements to date

• Opening of a new centre in Lambeth – first of the five new centres planned between 2007 and 2011
• Development and implementation of new financial reporting systems
• Defining a set of outcomes to support the focussed strategy