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The Social Mobility Foundation supports ambitious young people from less-privileged backgrounds to access top universities and careers. They run completely free of charge programmes featuring mentoring, internships with top companies, university application support, as well as professional development and skills workshops for high achieving Year 12s across the UK. The charity provides support in 11 professional sectors, including Law, Medicine and Politics. Support continues throughout university to help young people obtain graduate jobs.

Our Urban Shop is a pilot project that aims to help urban communities in the UK overcome the issues of buying good food locally. The Plunkett Foundation has partnered with Locality and received funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to help urban communities access the support and resources available for rural communities to set up community-owned shops.

This pilot programme is offering grants to community groups and organisations to develop a community-owned shop in an urban community of the UK that meets the needs of their community.

Esh Group, supported by the Esh Charitable Trust, is offering grants of up to £1,000 for community projects in its operational areas across the North East, Yorkshire and Humber, the North West and Scotland.

Esh Communities is launching for the fourth consecutive year in October 2015 and since its launch has awarded 93 organisations with over £90,000.00. On average, each successful applicant received an average of £960.86.

British Science Week (BSW) is coordinated by the British Science Association (BSA) and funded by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS).

BIS aims to stimulate and support scientists, engineers, science communicators and the general public to produce the largest range of self-sustaining events across the UK, in order to engage as many people as possible with science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).