Inclusive opportunities and online courses
Inclusive Opportunities
Some opportunities are open to all. Some have specific demographic criteria.
Key links and information
Ethnicity or Heritage
Mentors and Networking
Internships and Training
- 10,000 Black Interns
- Blueprint for All - Building Futures
- BMEjobs.co.uk
- Charityworks Fast Track
- Deutsche Bank: Rise
- KPMG: Black Heritage Talent Insight
- McKinsey & Company: Future Black Leaders Programme
- MI5, MI6 and GCHQ: Summer Internships
- Rare Recruitment
- SEO London
- Taylor Bennett Foundation
Disability
Mentors and Networking
- Able Futures
- ACCESS:VFX
- Association of Disabled Professionals
- Blind In Business
- British Dyslexia Association
- Changing Faces
- City Disabilities
- Deaf & Disabled People in TV
- Disabled Solicitors' Network
- Group for Autism, Insurance, Investment & Neurodiversity (GAIN)
- Hatch: Launchpad
- MyPlus+ Students' Club
- Society of Visually Impaired Lawyers
- Student Minds
Internships and Training
- Access to Work (support once you have accepted a job)
- Careers with Disabilities
- Change 100
- Disability Arts
- Disability Confident - gov.uk
- EmployAbility
- Employment Autism
- ENNA
- Evenbreak
- Forward2Employment
- KPMG: Abilities Talent Insight
- The ABL Foundation (formerly 10,000 Able Interns)
- The Education People
Gender or Sexuality
Scholarships and Job Opportunities
Scholarships
- Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship for 1st year male students from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
- Hilda Martindale Trust Award for British women training/studying for a career in a profession where women are underrepresented.
Job Opportunities
- DiversCity in Law jobs fair
- LGBTjobs.co.uk
- National Student Pride: Careers Fair
- Stonewall: Proud Employers
- Vercida
Mentoring and support
- Coding Black Females
- Consortium - network of LGBT+ groups and organisations.
- Gendered Intelligence - support for trans, non-binary and gender questioning people.
- Generation Success: Women in Tech
- Just Like Us - volunteer as an LGBTQ+ Ambassador.
- MyGWork - a networking site, offering opportunities to connect and online training and events.
- Sparta Athena Academy: funded, female-led training in technology.
- Stemettes: engaging women and non-binary people with Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths (STEAM)
- Trans in the City - support for trans and non-binary people in the workplace.
- WCAN: connecting leading employers with ambitious Black women.
Develop your skills through online courses or virtual internships
Please note, some may incur a cost.
Bright Network
Internship Experience UK (or IEUK) is Bright Network’s free 4-day virtual internship programme.
Class Central
1000s of courses with free certificates from Harvard, Stanford, Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn Learning, IBM, and many more.
Coursera
Advance your career with courses (some of which are free) from universities and companies.
Forage
Explore careers and prepare for the job with hundreds of free job simulations designed by the world's top employers.
FutureLearn
Bite-sized, flexible learning, with lots of free modules available.
The Skills Network
Free courses and skills bootcamps
Google Digital Garage
Accelerate your career with a free, online digital skills course in everything from marketing to coding and beyond.
International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL)
An internationally-recognised qualification, accredited by the BCS.
Open University - OpenLearn
Around 1000 free courses to choose from.
Study+ (University of Kent)
A wide range of free, non-credit-bearing courses for University of Kent students
The Learning People
Coding courses allowing you to get hands-on with JavaScript, Python, Blockchain, and software development.
U-Explore
Discover what its like to work for employers, with free activities which will get you ahead of the game and become application-ready for talent pools.
Social Mobility
Social mobility is the link between a person’s occupation/income and that of their parents. Where there is a strong link (i.e. a similar job or level of employment), there is a lower level of social mobility.
Scholarships
Mentors and Networking
Internships and Training