RO Access to Professions

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How can you/your organisation
become involved?
Realising Opportunities offers simple yet
effective ways for organisations to become
involved. The only cost to your organisation
is staff time. Our opportunities are flexible to
ensure that organisations control how they
get involved and how much time they commit.
Our opportunities include:
Ask the Expert
There’s no substitute for getting an expert’s
view and who better to ask about a profession
than someone currently doing the job! Via the
secure RO ementoring portal, students can
view a professional’s profile and ask questions.
Questions are collated by the RO Central
Team and forwarded in a batch so the expert
can respond.
To contribute you would need:
To provide a short biography appropriate
for our audience of 16–19 year olds.
Some time to answer our students’ questions
(the number of questions to be answered
can be agreed in advance).
National Student Conference
We host two National Student Conferences
each year which bring students from across the
country together for a day of skills development.
Access to Professions is a key area for students
to explore at the event.
If you are representing a professional
association then you may be able to support our
conferences by:
Providing an interactive workshop on
gaining access to your profession or
Providing an information stand in the
exhibition about your profession.
If you or a colleague would be interested
in working with Realising Opportunities,
you can find out more information and
complete an expression of interest form at
If you would like to discuss Realising Opportunities
and Access to Professions in more detail, please
contact the RO Central Team who would be
delighted to hear from you on 0191 208 8923
or emai
It was a pleasure to be an ‘expert’
for the Ask the Expert feature. Equal
chances for all regardless of social
background is very important to me
and I am keen to help wherever I can.
I received some very interesting
questions from some clearly very
motivated students. It took very
little time and I hope that my small
contribution made a difference in
informing these students about the
legal profession and how to get into
it. I wouldn’t hesitate to help again.
Jason Wainwright,Equity Partner at Muckle LLP