Generation UK's (GUK's) mission is to support diverse groups of people facing barriers to employment into life-changing careers with a unique, award-winning, holistic model of education-to-employment support involving:
 

• Find and Nurture unemployed and under-employed people who have either been referred to GUK by one of its partners, met GUK at an event or read about GUK online.

• Select Diverse Groups of learners who are motivated to seek life-changing work but are facing barriers which they are struggling to overcome.

• Deliver 1-3 month, full time, profession-specific Skills Bootcamps with experts teaching key skills, mindsets, behaviours and employability needed to thrive in entry-level roles.

• Support learners with extensive wrap-around pastoral mentorship and employability support across 1:1s and group sessions during training programmes and for six months thereafter.

• Matchmake learners to interviews with its employer partners who are looking to hire diverse talent for given professions.

• Track its activity and learners’ progress into roles and through time in their careers in order to understand its impact and highlight where it can improve.

Generation UK does not seek just any job for its learners but rather good, life-changing jobs in careers they keep and in which they thrive and progress.  Their work builds on and forms part of the network of Generation Global affiliates operating across 17 countries.

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East Head Impact's grant will run across a three year period, co-funding GUK's Healthcare Programme and also covering the

co-funding of GUK’s profession-specific Skill Bootcamps (including the Tech and Green Bootcamps).