Since 2014 Kingston Hub has been working with incredible students and our amazing local community to mainstream student social action. Our programmes empower students to engage with their local community and make change.
Now I’m confident that I can learn on the job and gain skills from experience. Empower will definitely come up in interviews when they ask me to elaborate on my organisational and planning skills, leadership, personal growth skills, and communication skills.
— Olivia Sampson
Impact
We aim to support students to create positive social change in their communities. In the past five years Kingston Hub has worked with
3500
Kingston University students
176
Community partners
330
Community members
Our impact with the local community
In the local Kingston community we:
- Develop pupils’ subject understanding, confidence, resilience and motivation through Schools Plus. Ultimately supporting young people to have improved educational attainment, tackling educational inequality
- Build young people’s confidence in setting goals, self-awareness, relationships with others and self-belief through Empower. Leading to improved expectations for future life
- Support our partners to meet their member’s needs through Give it a Go opportunities, bringing new perspectives, added capacity and community cohesion
- Empower students to apply their academic theory to local community challenges with Community Engaged Learning modules embedded into the curriculum
Our impact with students
Students who engage in our programmes develop:
- Critical engagement, including an understanding of social issues, and a passion to continue tackling them
- Wellbeing, including sense of belonging and connection with the university and local communities
- Skills for life, including confidence, leadership, resilience and teamwork
- Student experience, including their attainment, retention and progression within higher education
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