Our impact
Our impact
Our impact on placement at top universities
We support students from disadvantaged backgrounds to access top universities, through a unique combination of tuition and in-school mentoring. We work with them to make good applications, get the grades and transition to university.
In 2022…
- The Access Project students that placed at a top university 53%
- Statistically similar students outside of our programme 33%
Our students were more likely to apply to top universities
- The Access Project students that applied to a top university 93%
- Statistically similar students outside of our programme 58%
- The Access Project students that got offers from a top university 82%
- Statistically similar students outside of our programme 51%
Our students are almost twice as likely to place at a top university, compared to statistically similar students.
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The benefit of support from The Access Project is that I have more motivation than ever to achieve good grades in my exams.
Bruno, The Access Project student
Our work in 2021/22
hours of tutoring
hours of mentoring
partner schools
Our students
Going to a top university gives students the best chance of social mobility. However, students from the areas in which we work are significantly under-represented at these top universities.
students took part in our programme during 2021/22
%
of our young people come from the most disadvantaged backgrounds
%
of students said that their tutor was knowledgeable, well prepared and addressed their academic needs
%
of students said that tutorials helped motivate them and boosted their confidence communicating online
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of our students would recommend The Access Project
No one has attended university in my family before, and my parents can’t provide me with the information and advice I might need in terms of how to find out more about finance and other things relating to my journey to university. My Access Project Officer is understanding and well informed, he always provides me with support and shows care for my studies and helps me with personalised one-to-one.
Millie*, The Access Project student
Our Impact report 2023
Impact news
“I was homeless as a child, now I want to be Prime Minister” – Ras.I’s journey with The Access Project
As a toddler, Ras.I and his mum were left homeless in inner-city London. Now a finalist at the University of Oxford, Ras.I is ready to make a difference - and help change the lives of young people just like him. Ras.I Martin was born in 2001 in Stratford. "My...
The pathway to Cambridge: The Access Project student on her way to a top uni
It’s Freshers’ Week up and down the country and many of our student alumni are using this time to get to know their new university, check out the opportunities on offer and make new, possibly lifelong, friendships. Beril, an alum of The Access Project, sat her A...
Celebrating success and preparing for university
As university students across the country are preparing for the start of term, we talk to two of our alumni who are about to start brand new degree courses in the capital. Looking forward to LSE Laura got a four As in her A levels and is heading to the London...
Celebrating GCSE Results Day 2023
GCSE Results Day is finally upon us. Today, thousands of students across the country will visit their schools to open their GCSE results. After celebrating the success of our A level students last week, The Access Project is celebrating with our Year 11 students and...
New Chief Executive for The Access Project
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Anna Searle as Chief Executive of The Access Project. Anna was most recently Executive Director at the Education Development Trust where she led and delivered high impact education and employability initiatives as well as...
Contact us
Contact information
The Access Project,
First Floor, Canopi-Borough,
7-14 Great Dover Street,
London,
SE1 4YR
020 4513 5999
info@theaccessproject.org.uk
Media enquiries:
line: 020 4513 5999 (available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm)
media@theaccessproject.org.uk
The Access Project safeguarding line: 020 4513 5999 (available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm)
NSPCC 24 hour line:
0808 800 5000