Action Tutoring are an education charity supporting pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve a meaningful level of academic attainment, with a view to helping them progress to further education, employment or training.

Volunteer with us as a tutor, or partner with us as a primary or secondary school, to support pupils to increase their subject knowledge, confidence and study skills and reach their potential.

What is it? The Advocacy Academy is a transformational Social Justice Fellowship for young people who are passionate about making a difference in the world. Across six intense months, we support young leaders from marginalised communities to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to tackle some of the biggest challenges of the 21st century.

How does it work? On the Fellowship participants attend three fantastic residential retreats and weekly evening gatherings. They work with top campaigners, creatives, academics and coaches to help them develop the skills to lead a grassroots campaign in their community, deliver a speech to their Member of Parliament in the House of Commons, and so much more.

The Africa Centre is a London based charity dedicated to championing contemporary Africa and its diaspora through education, arts and culture. Our history is one of dynamism and change and we have a strong record of delivering exciting cultural programmes since the early days of our formation in the 1960s.

Over the years, we have hosted leading African artists, writers, academics, and musicians within our spaces. We have nurtured cross-cultural understanding and dialogue through music, art, poetry and literature etc. We are committed to continue bringing communities together by educating about, connecting to and advocating for Africa. We have ambitious plans for the future and are currently building our new headquarters in Southwark, London. We believe that despite the prevailing challenges, culture is still transformative and has a critical role to play in fostering resilience.

Our aim is to promote sustainable development by empowering young people to serve as key agents in promoting peace and intercultural understanding.

Bell House is an educational charity in Dulwich, offering wider learning opportunities outside the school curriculum. We host a variety of short courses, exhibitions, talks, and cultural events, as well as providing a centre for dyslexia support. Our courses range from cookery to film-making, first aid to writing, and our talks cover everything from art and history to mental health and financial literacy.

The Creative Dimension Trust is a charity that organises Craft Workshops for 14-18 year olds who love working with their hands. The fully-funded workshops are taught by some of the world’s leading craft specialists, who want to inspire the next generation.

In discovering new techniques, workshop students build the confidence needed to pursue a career where core hand skills are required.  The skills are manual dexterity, draughtsmanship, and an understanding of 3D structures.

The Creative Dimension is socially inclusive and at least 80% of participants are selected from schools located in areas of social/economic deprivation or geographic isolation.

Dulwich Picture Gallery is really keen to be involved in opportunities that support Southwark students. Predominantly, it’s our curriculum linked schools session at the gallery (https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/learning/schools-visits/secondary-schools/) that we can offer, though we often work on specific projects with schools where we can get outside funding. We also provide teacher training or INSET days (https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/planning-your-visit/schools-visits/for-teachers/ ) and we are keen to support not only Art learning, but also History and Architecture.

If any of the SSLP schools would like any more information, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Bring your topic to life with the Horniman’s hands-on curriculum-linked sessions:

EYFS
Aquarium, Animals, Seasonal Art, Minbeasts, Garden Explorer… and many more!

KS1
Toys around the World, Plants & People, Make & Take a Puppet, Around Africa, Animals & their Habitats… and many more!

KS2
Ancient Benin, Evidence for Evolution, Musical Instruments around the World, Ancient Egypt, Prehistoric Britain, Seed Journeys… and many more!

KS3,4,5
Masks around the World, Gamelan, Fashion and Identity, World Music, museum Sketchbook… and many more!

SEN
The Horniman Museum offers sensory sessions or can tailor workshops to your students’ needs.

For more information and resources contact them or visit their website horniman.ac.uk/schools

The Mark Evison Foundation (MEF) was established to celebrate the life of Lieutenant Mark Evison, who was tragically killed whilst serving in Afghanistan in 2009. He was a notably adventurous young man, and the Foundation exists to encourage a similar sense of adventure in young people in London schools, by enabling them to undertake challenging projects of their own devising. They now work with Year 12 students in about 70 schools, and are seeking to increase this number during the 2018/19 school year.

When a school contacts MEF, they will arrange to come in for an initial Year 12 assembly and then a number of follow-up sessions. Students who show an interest after the assembly will be introduced to the application process in the first session, and then helped to produce their plans in the subsequent meetings. At the final judging session, students have to present their projects for approval. Students are hoping to complete the whole process during the course of one term so as not to lose momentum. The students choose, plan and carry out their projects themselves, without adult supervision or help. The projects can be physical, creative or technical in nature – all that is insisted on is that they are genuinely challenging and also practical and safe. To gain an award (of up to £500), students have to produce effective plans, detailed budgets and sensible risk-assessments. This is a challenge in itself, but ensures that the projects themselves are likely to be viable.

MEF are very much aware of the time pressure affecting busy teachers. They try to minimise the demands we make on them by communicating with the students direct and running all the sessions ourselves.

Feed-back from students who have carried out projects and their teachers is overwhelmingly positive, with many saying that they have had a life-changing experience. The qualities required, grit, resilience, team-work, leadership, perseverance, are much heralded currently, but not always encouraged by the risk-averse environment in which we live.

Please take a few minutes to visit the web-site (www.markevisonfoundation.org). Click on the pictures on the front page, and you can read the students’ accounts of their adventures.

Dulwich College is the South London Hub of the National Maths & Physics SCITT, a school centred teacher training programme that partners the state and independent school sectors and provides subject specific mathematics training. Trainees complete a year’s teacher training and are awarded both qualified teacher status (QTS) and a PGCE. Trainees undertake a main school placement at either Dulwich College or one of our partner schools (both state and independent) across London. They are assigned a mentor in their host school and attend a full day’s formal training at Dulwich College, designed and delivered by leading mathematics practitioners. The course is highly subject specialised: trainees receive 14.5 days of mathematics specific training over the year. In the second or third school term, trainees undertake a six-week second placement at a contrasting school.

The National Modern Languages SCITT was the first national teacher training provider that included both state and independent schools, we were also the first national School Centred Initial Teaching Training (SCITT) to focus on one subject – modern languages.

Our aim is to become a national centre of excellence for languages and all things language related. The course leads to a PGCE with QTS, which includes 60 masters’ level credits from Sheffield Hallam University. The programme is designed to provide a personalised approach and includes regular Day Schools, Online Modules and in-classroom experience to help trainees reach Qualified Teacher Status. On their teacher training journey, trainees will be supported by our team of modern language experts and a dedicated mentor from initial induction through to final assessment.

Our South London Hub at Dulwich College works with the best state and independent schools in the South London area. Please contact Catherine Juyol at Dulwich College for further details juyolc@dulwich.org.uk

Established by Sir Peter Ogden in 1999, the Ogden Trust is a charitable trust that exists to promote the teaching and learning of physics. We do this by enabling innovative physics teaching to take place in, and collaboratively between, schools, often forging links to universities. We support teacher CPD and address the shortage of physics teachers in the UK by funding programmes that encourage young graduates to go into teaching.

Since 2015 the SSLP has been fortunate enough to receive two or three bursaries each year from the Stuart Horne Foundation to allow students to attend Outward Bound Canada leadership courses.

The Stuart Horne Bursary has a mission to provide economic assistance and an array of educational and adventurous experiences across Canada to teenagers and young adults from the UK who may never have before had either the option or the chance to participate in such an amazing opportunity. Currently the program offers the opportunity to join outdoor leadership and wilderness programs across Canada. The aim is to provide transformational experiences by taking recipients out of their normal, routine environment, and supporting them in a space where they can engage with nature, face impactful challenges, and work in a team environment.

Bursaries are awarded to students who have been identified as being those who would benefit most; those who have the potential to succeed but not the means to participate in such an experience on their own.

Social mobility in Britain has stagnated. The opportunities open to a child from a disadvantaged background today are strongly linked to how much their parents earn.

Since 1997 and under the leadership of our founder, Sir Peter Lampl, the Sutton Trust has worked to address this. We fight for social mobility from birth to the workplace so that every young person – no matter who their parents are, what school they go to, or where they live – has the chance to succeed in life.

In order to leverage what we do, we work in partnership with the UK’s and the US’ leading universities and other organisations.

Talent-Ed believe that every young person should have the support, skills and aspirations to reach their potential.

Sadly, this is not the case for young people from low income areas in the UK and educational inequality is highest amongst the brightest students.  TalentEd is a charity that offers high-ability young people a year-long programme of weekly after-school sessions. Our qualified teachers and inspirational role models improve grades and academic and career options for those pupils.

Varsity Scholars provides students, parents and teachers with the expert guidance needed to secure top university places.

Every young person should have the support they need to succeed. We work to ensure they aspire to and achieve their goals. We work in partnership with schools to run in-school workshops and online programmes designed to support the university application process. This includes our flagship 1 Day Personal Statement Masterclass, Teacher Reference Writing Workshop, Interview Preparation Day Workshop and consulting on access and widening participation strategy.