Career Ready: transforming the lives and social mobility of young people in Perth & Kinross

How your organisation can get involved

Career Ready (careerready.org.uk/1000Futures) is a social mobility charity, whose purpose is to support the social inclusion and mobility of young people (high school years S5/S6). Career Ready work with secondary schools across 18 Scotland Local Authorities and are looking for more employers across Perth & Kinross to help local young people kick-start their career by taking part in their programme, which involves providing monthly mentoring at your workplace (1–1.5 hrs per month) along with a paid 4-week summer 2025 internship.

Being part of the Career Ready programme offers many further benefits for employers:

Supports Corporate and Social Responsibility goals

Provides rewarding skills development and engagement opportunities for employees

Enable opportunities to connect with other local organisations who partner with Career Ready

Raises awareness of their organisation as a local employer with schools and young people across the region

Career Ready works with over 350 employer partners across Scotland. Their ambition is to welcome 1,000 further young people onto their upcoming 2024-26 programme (currently 844 on the current 2023-25 programme) across Scotland, commencing over the next few months.

This short video and their latest Career Ready employer brochure provides further information on the impact their programme of mentoring with an internship has for local young people. 

If your organisation can help empower more young people in Perth & Kinross, please visit this link for more information and to get involved: https://careerready.org.uk/1000Futures/