The Aspire Higher Programme is a partnership between the Universities of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Northampton. They connect local schools and colleges with universities and employers, helping them to access opportunities for their learners. They also run targeted outreach activity with local schools to support providing learners exposure to Higher Education experiences and in meeting the Gatsby benchmarks. By working with Skills Builder, Aspire Higher aim to thread the key essential skills through all of the resources that they create in order to reinforce the message of their importance in everything students do and how these skills benefit them in their transition into Higher Education.