• The University of Birmingham Student Recruitment and Outreach team are there to support schools and colleges across the country. They run a range of activities and programmes to support students from Year 7 up to Year 13. These include, but are not limited to: school campus visits; talks and workshops, on and off campus; masterclasses; residentials; and access programmes. They have a dedicated team to provide information, advice and guidance for students, teachers and career advisers.
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• Bristol’s outreach and widening participation offer provides programmes and opportunities to students from underrepresented backgrounds. These opportunities give you a taste of what it is like to study at the University of Bristol, and support you to access university.
• For students currently taking A-levels, BTECs, an Access to HE Diploma or equivalent qualifications, they offer programmes, summer schools and conferences.
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• The University and its Colleges are committed to widening participation to higher education.
• Hundreds of outreach initiatives and events are run each year both in Cambridge and in schools and colleges across the UK.
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• Cardiff’s Widening Participation Strategy 2020-2025 builds on our excellent record of putting students at the heart of what we do and is aimed at supporting students from socio-economically deprived and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds to engage, achieve and succeed at Cardiff University.
• Discover their carefully tailored programmes designed to break down the barriers young people face, and to support them through their educational journey.
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• Durham welcomes students from all backgrounds. They focus on encouraging everyone who has the merit and potential to succeed to take a look at what Durham has to offer. From the work of their Widening Access and Participation Team in helping to raise aspirations, to the information and advice sessions delivered to pupils in schools and colleges across the country, to providing travel bursaries for their open days and visits, to the contextual offers being led by their Admissions Office, Durham is committed to fair access and widening participation.    
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• The University of Edinburgh has long been passionately committed to and taken a lead in WP,  pioneering many different types of access programmes and best practice, including the Lothians Equal Access Programme for Schools (LEAPS) and Pathways to the Professions in the 1990s, which are now embedded across the sector.
• Alongside their broader initiatives around equity and access for all, they work specifically with the Scottish Funding Council to develop a three year Outline Agreement (refreshed annually) which is their public statement, and includes their commitment to widening access as well as other areas such as employability and research.
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• The University of Exeter has a key objective to ensure that all students, from every background, are supported to access, succeed in, and progress from, higher education (HE).
• The central Student Recruitment and WP team organise and run a large programme of face-to-face on-campus, face-to-face off-campus, and virtual WP events targeted at students from a range of underrepresented and often disadvantaged backgrounds in partner schools and colleges across the country.
• Some of these events offer an insight into the subjects available to study at university and to help participants make informed decisions about their future, while others focus on providing general advice and guidance about higher education and student life.
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• The University of Glasgow's Widening Participation Team offers programmes and support services aimed at increasing access to higher education for underrepresented groups. They offer tailored programmes for various student groups, such as adult returners, care-experienced students, and forced migrants. They can also support with information on adjusted offers, contextual admissions, and offer various outreach initiatives such as summer schools and taster weeks to encourage participation in higher education.
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• Imperial College London support the brightest young minds from backgrounds currently underrepresented at Imperial to access futures in science, technology, engineering and maths at university and beyond.
• They work with schools, colleges and community organisations, from primary through to A-Level education. This forms part of Imperial's widening participation and outreach agenda.
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• King’s College London works with underrepresented students and their supporters, empowering them to access and succeed in higher education because social mobility is necessary to redress social inequality.
• Their work removes barriers to success throughout a student’s educational journey.
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• The University of Leeds offer an extensive programme of outreach initiatives and events which they deliver in schools, on campus and online to inspire and inform young learners about the variety of opportunities and routes open to them when considering, and applying to, university.
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• The Widening Participation and Outreach team delivers projects and activities designed to widen access to the University of Liverpool, and support students to succeed once they arrive. They work in partnership with schools and colleges, with a focus on raising awareness of higher education and supporting student attainment, especially for students who are from areas where people are traditionally less likely to go to university, students who are care experienced, disabled students, asylum seekers, refugees and students from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. Their activities include: primary programme for Year 5 pupils; campus visits linked to current University of Liverpool Research Themes; Merseyside Young Health and Life Scientists for students in Years 9-11; summer Schools for Year 10 students; Liverpool Scholars Programme for students in Years 12 and 13; attainment support for specific groups, including Looked After Children and learners from minority ethnic background.
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• LSE's Widening Participation Team runs multiple pre-entry outreach programmes that provide free activities for students, helping them progress to higher education.
• This includes free teacher resources for Primary educators, events for Secondary school students, and sustained outreach initiatives and events for Sixth Form/College students.
• There is also dedicated support for Care Experienced students available, including a dedicated bursary.
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• The University of Manchester's Widening Participation Team provide support to increase access to higher education such as scholarships, bursaries, and the Manchester Access Programme, which offers financial aid, reduced entry requirements, and academic support.
• The university prioritises breaking down barriers to education and fostering inclusivity and diversity.
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• Newcastle University provides a University-wide programme of outreach to students and staff in schools and colleges from across the UK.
• They work in partnership with teachers, current students and our graduates. Their range of activities and workshops includes a focus on cognitive skills, pupil attainment and a sense of belonging.
• Each year, they deliver around 800 in-school sessions and engage with over 100,000 pupils.
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• Nottingham’s Widening Participation and Outreach team provides information, advice and guidance sessions for schools and colleges across the UK.
• They also run a range of schemes designed to provide your students with further information about university or particular subject areas.
• Their sessions are designed to raise awareness of the benefits of university and inspire your students to think about their future.
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• Oxford runs thousands of free events and programmes every year. These give potential applicants a chance to learn about student life as well as equipping them to submit a strong UCAS application.
• As part of Oxford’s commitment to widening access, Oxford's colleges are developing their regional outreach. By forming Oxford for UK regions and working together, groups of colleges hope to help more local students from backgrounds which are currently under-represented to make successful applications to Oxford.
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• Queen Mary works to ensure that their student body is as diverse as possible, and aim to support students from underrepresented backgrounds by providing outreach programmes and activities.
• They primarily target students from Years 11 to 13 and their key influencers, including their parents, carers, teachers, and advisers, in order to support informed decisions about higher education.
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• At Queen's University Belfast, we are committed ensuring that those most able but least likely to participate in Higher Education should have an equal opportunity to do so.
• The Queen's University Widening Participation Unit works with Post-16 Students with the aim of raising their aspirations to attend University, their awareness of the benefits of Higher Education and boosting their attainment to progress on to Higher Education.
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• For students who meet widening access criteria, the University of Sheffield offer a wide range of opportunities so that they can explore the University of Sheffield and their options around higher education.
• For example, Access to Sheffield (Y12-13) has been tailor made to give young people the experience of what it is like to be a student at Sheffield.
• They have five subject and career programmes so that students can apply to the one that best suits their interests.
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• The UCL Access and Participation Office has been running outreach activities with schools and colleges for over 30 years. They offer a range of activities to support students from primary through to Year 13.
• All of their activities draw upon UCL's world-leading research and teaching and aim to foster a genuine interest in learning.  
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• The Widening Participation Team at University of Warwick combines passion, creativity and innovation to inspire young minds and maximise their potential, through unique opportunities both in school and on campus.
• Their work spans many geographical reaches, supporting young people and their parents/carers to make informed decisions on a local, regional and national level.
• They run a wide range of events and activities for young people aged between 9 and 19, targeted at state school educated students, students who would be the first in their family to attend university, students from low socio-economic backgrounds and students who come from neighbourhoods where there is low progression to higher education.
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• The Access and Outreach and Student Recruitment teams work closely with teachers, advisers and other partners to offer a range of interactive outreach and recruitment activities.
• They work with primary schools, secondary schools, colleges and mature students across the country. Their aim is to enthuse and inspire talented young people from all backgrounds about higher education.
• Many of their activities involve ongoing relationships with schools and colleges. They have an ambitious vision to work with a wide and diverse range of schools, colleges, students and applicants to help create a university for public good with a strong social purpose.
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