Migrant Leaders Founder & CEO Elham Fardad continues on a roadshow of visits to schools, colleges and universities across Britain to speak to educators and disadvantaged young people. She emphasises that “It is really important not to lose sight of what matters most to young people and to continue to listen to them talk about their challenge, fears, hopes and aspirations. No matter how busy we are, delivering and growing our charity’s impact, we must always have our ears to the ground and be informed by the young people we wish to support.”

Institute For Fiscal Studies Deaton Review highlights that second generation ethnic minorities outperform in attainment of higher education despite less advantaged economic backgrounds but that this success is not reflected in the employment market.

Overall 39-55% of second generation ethnic minorities attain university degrees, compared to 26% of the white British majority. Yet, they have gained 1-7% less employment rates. The picture is more varied when looking at reaching managerial and professional occupations. Some ethnic groups and genders are around 10% behind in attaining managerial or professional occupations, despite 39-50% of the same group attaining a university degree.

At Migrant Leaders we have a targeted approach to help raise aspirations and support across all ethnicities while providing bespoke training, connections, quality work experiences and individual mentoring. The aim of Migrant Leaders is to support young 1st and 2nd generation migrants as well as all disadvantag...

The first Migrant Leaders Quarterly Mentors Webinar was delivered during Black History Month, Professor Mary Bosworth spoke about representation in collaboration with University of Oxford.

Kathryn Grice, a member of the Migrant Leaders Executive Team expressed “It's hard not to put your teacher hat on when listening to these presentations and put ex pupils' faces to the statistics mentioned. The presentation explored the under representation of practitioners - such as judges, barristers, police officers - in the criminal justice system from global majority citizens; coupled with the overrepresentation of them within the justice system - in arrests, custody, prisons etc. There is significant work to be done and as we know, education plays a huge part in change.”

We are elated by our Migrant Leaders collaboration with Granger Reis to be offering this 1 year paid internship opportunity to Migrant Leaders mentees in higher education.

Thank you Ben Hewlett, Danielle Hatton, Edward Ali McQuilton and everyone at Granger Reis for collaborating with Migrant Leaders to create these opportunities.

We are proud of the continued expansion of our Kantar virtual internships across multiple divisions including Kantar Insights, Kantar Public, Kantar Consulting and Marketing. These are quality work experiences for our university students interested in strategy consulting, marketing, research and policy. Watch out for our next Spring and Summer internships being advertised on our Migrant Leaders social media.

We are proud of our partnership with ABB which created our first collaboration in July 2021, an onsite internship for 6 of our Migrant Leaders engineering mentees: ABB - YouTube

We are thrilled to announce our Migrant Leaders partnership with Cappfinity, enabling us to provide Strengths Profile assessments to all our Migrant Leaders mentors and mentees. See our Digital Zone

Early awareness of your greatest natural talents and strengths is key in the career decisions that you make. It gives you confidence and enables you to know and further develop your gifts.

We are delighted to announce that Migrant Leaders Founder & CEO Elham Fardad has been shortlisted in the Charity Times Awards in the Charity Leader of the Year category. Full list of finalists: https://lnkd.in/d5s-raY

Elham said, "I am humbled by this recognition which really is shared by all our team, supporters, mentors and mentees who make Migrant Leaders special. We all live every day for our common purpose to help these amazing young people. Thank you for being on this journey with me."

Migrant Leaders delivered this Education Conference for the 4^th year to support students with access to top universities . This webinar included expert training with Varsity Scholars founder Kate Kettle to support university applications. In collaboration with Granger Reis topics covered included How to Hack Job Applications and How to Make Social Media Work for Your Career.

We have been energised by bringing together Migrant Leaders mentees and mentors in our Migrant Leaders Connect Conference with training in collaboration with University of Warwick. Topics covered included Finding Your Strengths and a Leading Engineering Career Story.