Level Up Experience Launch

Wednesday the 23rd of October saw ReachOut’s launch our new programme ‘ReachOut The Level Up Experience’ in London’s Living Room, City Hall – and what an amazing night it was! The launch event brought together our Level Uppers from Queen Mary University of London and the University of Greenwich, ready to network with our corporate […]

VOLUNTEER THANK YOU EVENT 2019

The annual ReachOut Volunteer Thank You Event (VTYE) is one of our favourite nights of the year. It’s an opportunity for us to bring all of our wonderful volunteers together and show how much we appreciate their hard work, commitment and resilience. The London VTYE took place on Wednesday 5th June at the Macquarie Group […]

Visit from Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester

ReachOut were very excited to welcome Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, to three ReachOut Academy projects at The Co-op Academy Failsworth on 21st May 2019. The Mayor met head teacher, Phill Quirk, and Ian Burchett from the Co-Op Trust to discuss The Co-op Academy Failsworth and ReachOut working together. Phill explained that they have […]

NETWORK & KNOWLEDGE EVENT 2019

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Network and Knowledge event on Friday 3rd May. It was a fantastic chance to connect with representatives from various charities and learn more about how the education sector is developing. We will be highlighting here the key messages from our brilliant three speakers; Patrick Green from […]

Volunteer Thank You Event – North-West

The annual ReachOut Volunteer Thank You Event (VTYE) is one of our favourite nights of the year. It’s an opportunity for us to bring all of our wonderful volunteers together and show how much we appreciate their hard work, commitment and resilience. The North-West VTYE took place on Thursday 4th April at the UK Fast […]

Impact Report Launch

Thursday 21st March marked ReachOut’s Impact Report Launch for 2017/18, which took place at The Tower of London. The White Tower was filled with over 200 supporters including staff, trustees, volunteers and funders.If you weren’t able to join us for the event, or would just like a recap, please continue reading to find out more […]

ReachOut cleans up at awards ceremony!

Hollywood aren’t the only ones enjoying awards season at the moment. Volunteer Officer’s Becky, Harriet and Rebecca have been submitting student award nominations left, right, and centre in recent weeks. Not only have they been nominating our brilliant volunteers for awards but they have also had the pleasure of attending lots of award ceremonies! On […]

Female empowerment and its place in education

Recently I ran a female empowerment session with my year five girls group at ReachOut, where each activity was based around the idea of powerful women and issues that my mentees and mentors face as females. We started with a quick round of Who am I? The classic sticky note on forehead game but with […]

Mentor of the Term

It’s been a fantastic first term for ReachOut projects across London, Manchester and Oldham. We wanted to hold a competition to recognise the fantastic work our volunteers do, so we invited our project leaders to nominate someone from their project who have been outstanding throughout the first term. In Manchester and Oldham we had a […]

Networking and Knowledge Event

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Networking and Knowledge event on Friday 7th December. It was a fantastic chance to connect with representatives from various charities and learn more about how the charity sector is developing during quite uncertain political times. The event took place at BlackRock – one of ReachOut’s corporate […]