Not sure if uni is for you? Join our mentoring and summer school to ask all the questions your ever had and experience university for yourself.
Application deadline 13th April 2025.
This programme will allow students to gain experience and knowledge of university life, the benefits of, and routes to, higher education. Students will also have the opportunity to spend time with current students, ask them any questions they have about university and attend taster lectures in some our most popular courses. Future Ready is completely free and includes a launch event, online mentoring and an in-person summer school on our award-winning campus. Students who enrol at the University of Reading after completing the programme will be eligible for a £1,000 bursary.
Application deadline 13th April 2025.
Programme dates
- Regional launches 26-29th May
- Mentoring online June 2025
- Summer School 9th -11th July 2025
Eligibility
The programme is reserved for those living in London, Kent, East and West Sussex, Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Cornwall, Bristol, Oxford, Wales, and the West Midlands.
- Live in a POLAR4 or TUNDRA MSOA Quintile 1 or 2 area (check postcode: tinyurl.com/ criteriacheck)
• Live in an IMD Quintile 1 or 2 area (checked by the University)
• Asylum seeker or refugee
• Currently in or previously in local authority care
• Estranged from family (in Friends and Family Care)
• Young carer for a family member with illness, disability, mental health issues, or substance misuse.