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Allen & Overy Smart Start
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STRATEGIC PARTNER
Our strategic partners financially support us to expand our work - either through developing new programmes or extending into new areas. We couldn’t grow without them and thank them for all their support.
TRIP-HOSTING EMPLOYER
Our employer partners periodically host visits to their workplaces by groups of students, who get a chance to meet employees and ask questions. Volunteers and students then get to work on a challenge that gives a flavour of what the organisation does.
MEMBER ORGANISATION
PARTNER ORGANISATION
Allen & Overy's Smart Start is a work experience programme that runs for a week in the summer and offers further business mentoring for the following academic year. They work specifically with young people from non-privileged backgrounds to provide insight into a range of career paths and to develop the skills to succeed. Through joining the Skills Builder Partnership, essential skills such as Teamwork and Presenting form a core part of the student learning log and are being developed in a rigourous, consistent way.

Allen & Overy launched the Smart Start Experience in 2009 with the aim of giving young people from lower socio-economic backgrounds access to high-quality work experience in the world of business.

Since its launch, the Smart Start Experience has supported over 1,569 young people. As the recipient of many prestigious awards, the Smart Start Experience was the first work experience scheme in the legal sector to have its programme Assured by City & Guilds.

Through a timetable of interactive workshops and team challenges, Smart Start allows young people to develop the skills necessary to succeed in education and the world of work.

working with us since
2017