TOGETHER WE ARE IGNITING POTENTIAL

Southampton Together represents your community of alumni and donors, who give back to the University through volunteering and philanthropy. Together we are changing lives.

This year, students on our alumni-funded Ignite Programme benefitted from a comprehensive programme of workshops and training sessions, designed to help them develop the tools they need to succeed. From managing a budget to crafting the perfect job application, our Ignite scholars have access to a wealth of advice and guidance.

Many of the speakers who delivered these valuable workshops are alumni of the University, who drew on their own experiences and success to help students navigate the challenges of living alone and finding work.

Said, in his second year of studying BSc Politics and International Relations, talked about how much he was inspired by his fellow students on the workshops, as he looks to his future career.

“The interactive employability workshops were really interesting – to see so many different people in the room with different ambitions for their futures blew my mind! We’ve all got something that we want to work towards. So many of us come from deprived backgrounds, like mine, and to see the big ambitions that everyone has, to be studying at an institution like Southampton, gives me so much confidence and self-belief: we’re all here and we all have something that we aspire to.”

We currently support 89 students through the Ignite programme and with your help we can extend this lifeline to even more.

The Ignite workshops have been amazing. I recently took the workshop on CV writing. We were directed to all these resources at the University – the CV Checker and careers advice – so when I was writing my own CV I could reflect on it, and what the speaker had to say. Thanks to the tips I got from the workshop, I had three interviews over three days for swimming teaching roles and was offered three jobs.”

Dan, MEng Aeronautics and Astronautics, 3rd year