Business Name: Career Ready

Website: https://careerready.org.uk/

Contact:  Debby Barry

Telephone: 07872 989 127

Overview: We are Career Ready. We are a social mobility charity that wants every young person, regardless of background, to progress to a positive post-school destination and prosper in work and life. Working in partnership with employers and their employee volunteers, Local Authorities, and schools, together we provide targeted young talent in S5/6 with a structured, impactful, 18-month programme that empowers, boosts social capital, and develops work skills.

With a mentor from the world of work, a four-week paid internship with their mentor’s organisation, and a series of skills masterclasses combined with workplace visits, young people leave school more confident, knowledgeable, and choice about their future career destiny and with a plan in place to achieve it. A lifelong network is established, which continues to be developed as a Career Ready alumnus.