IntoUniversity
Sharif Chowdhury currently serves as Corporate Partnerships Manager and previously held the position of Senior Corporate Partnerships Officer at IntoUniversity since January 2022. In addition, Sharif is a trustee at ELHAP, commencing in July 2022. Sharif's experience includes serving as Volunteer Coordinator at The Kids Network from September 2020 to January 2022, where responsibilities included managing over 50 volunteer mentors and raising funds for the charity. Previous roles at ELHAP from February 2014 to August 2020 involved responsibilities as a Volunteering Project Playworker and Team Leader, focusing on volunteer management and facilitating activities for children with disabilities. Sharif holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, completed in 2019, and has prior educational qualifications from Ilford County Sixth Form and Ilford County High School.
IntoUniversity
IntoUniversity is an award-winning charity that runs local learning centres which provide an education programme to support young people facing disadvantage in achieving their chosen aspiration. We target children and young people most at risk of failing to meet their potential to go to university due to economic, social, cultural, or linguistic disadvantage. IntoUniversity provides practical learning support and motivational and confidence-building activities for children and young people aged 7-18. We currently have 44 centres across England and Scotland. IntoUniversity is an on-going and long-term service: at the heart of the programme is the belief that underachievement is best addressed in the context of a long-term pastoral engagement with young people where we can build their esteem and support their learning in order that they can reach their potential.