Philanthropy

As a philanthropic supporter of The Brilliant Club will work with you to find the best way to match your philanthropic aims with our mission.

Why support The Brilliant Club

Philanthropists play a crucial role in helping us grow established programmes, that have proven results in supporting less advantaged young people to access the most competitive universities. They also make a step change in establishing our newer programmes, in student success and parental engagement.

Our goal is to reach 100,000 students with our university access programmes, support 10,000 undergraduate students to transition to and succeed at university, and engage 1,000 parents on Parent Power over five years to 2026.

If we achieve this:

  • We will become the UK’s largest university access movement, supporting over 20,000 students on our access programmes annually by 2026.
  • We will contribute to systems change for the least advantaged students. By the end of the decade, we estimate that 1 in 10 state school students entering competitive universities will be a graduate of The Scholars Programme.

As a philanthropic supporter of The Brilliant Club will work with you to find the best way to match your philanthropic aims with our mission and provide you with regular updates on our progress and impact.

Impact

Attainment

Our evaluation shows that The Scholars Programme raises attainment at GCSE. Students with average attainment at the end of primary school who participated in The Scholars Programme in Year 10 were twice as likely to achieve 9-5 in their maths and English GCSEs than peers from their local authority with similar prior attainment.

University access

For seven consecutive years, independent evaluation with UCAS has shown that Scholars Programme graduates progress to competitive universities at a higher rate than other students from similar backgrounds.

 

Student Success

Our student success programme, Join the Dots, has been found to have a positive impact on all three intermediate outcomes we look at: self-efficacy, study strategy use, and sense of belonging. These all support the long-term outcomes we expect to see, i.e. for students to continue into second year of university and complete their degree course with a strong degree.

Contact us

If you would like to find out more about how you can support, please get in touch with our Director of Philanthropy, Steina Adolfsdottir.

Email Steina via the button below.

 

 

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