We take an innovative approach to addressing educational inequality, focusing on sustainability and growth to help more students while maintaining the quality of our programmes.
Our Strategic Goals
Setting clear and measurable goals helps us create lasting change in communities that need it most, while ensuring our volunteers understand exactly how their work improves educational outcomes.
1
Local Libraries, Lasting Impact
Restart free library sessions in Nottingham through our Learning Outreach Network, once we have funding and volunteers.
2
Tutoring Without Barriers
Raise more money for our Community Education Fund, so we can open more funded places. Families with a child in Year 7 or above pay from £5 to £25 an hour under a published rule.
3
Careers Without Limits
Expand our mentoring reach through strategic partnerships with specialist organisations. By focusing on competitive fields like medicine, we’re providing expert guidance to students who currently lack access to these vital resources. We will also keep growing our mentoring partnerships.
4
Connecting Communities Through Education
Restart the Learning Outreach Network in Nottingham libraries, then look at other areas once it is running again.
How We Deliver on This
Our strategic framework and the three projects behind it. Open a section below for the detail.
By positioning our services within trusted community spaces and building strong partnerships, we create lasting change that strengthens local support networks. This means community-centred delivery with local libraries and community centres when our library programme runs, rather than competing with them, a sustainable growth model mixing paid tutoring and volunteer roles to keep costs affordable, targeted expansion through specialist partnerships that scale across regions, and evidence-based impact that identifies and fills each community’s actual support gaps.
Expanding education access through our comprehensive online platform, providing tutoring and mentoring resources to students regardless of geographical constraints. Our digital hub serves as the foundation for all our educational delivery. Target outcome: increase student contact hours by 10% from this year, securing funding to ensure continuity for students whose parents cannot pay.
Now called the Learning Outreach Network. It ran for a year in Nottingham libraries, funded by the University of Nottingham Students’ Union Cascade fund, with Nottingham City Council. It is paused while we look for funding and volunteers.
Integrating NSEMM directly into school communities, creating connections with secondary schools and providing students with career guidance, tutoring services, and educational resources. Target outcome: build lasting connections with secondary schools in the East Midlands, providing career talks and tutoring services to students who need them most.
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