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Villiers Park Educational Trust

Villiers Park Impact Report 2025

Villiers Park Educational Trust's 2025 Impact Report shares stories of success from its work with young people from under-represented backgrounds. In 2025 it reached over 2,500 young people through partnerships with education providers, employers, funders and charities, supported 611 young people through its Future Leaders Programme in areas of high inequality, and delivered 1,154 hours of coaching. After two years 80% of Future Leaders were certain or very certain about their future pathway, an increase of 51 percentage points, and 84% left its university residential week seriously considering university. Villiers Park aims to reach 5,000 young people annually by 2030.

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Villiers Park Educational Trust is a social mobility charity that works with young people from under-represented backgrounds in areas of high inequality, including Hastings and Bexhill, Tyneside, Swindon and Wiltshire, Norwich and Cambridgeshire, to broaden horizons and help them progress to the futures right for them.

Key Metrics

2,500 young people reached through partnerships
611 young people supported through the Future Leaders Programme
80% of Future Leaders certain or very certain about their future pathway after two years

Key Outcomes

  • Students' likelihood of applying to university rose by 43 percentage points, with 84% leaving the week seriously considering university
  • After the University of Bath Residential 2025, 89% felt more confident and 90% felt more resilient
  • 60% of Year 10 students said they would now consider an apprenticeship, a 40% increase compared to before the residential

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England

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