Digital first
Digital technology levels the playing field for low-income students. Digital has unparalleled reach and engages young people using the mediums they use every day. It should be the default.
Talent is spread evenly but opportunity is not. We're changing that. We propel low-income students into the UK's best universities, powered by innovative tech and free support from the UK's leading undergraduates.
3000+
Russell Group university places
400+
offers to Oxford & Cambridge
3000+
Russell Group university places
400+
offers to Oxford & Cambridge
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Mentors at 30+ universities
Our story
"Access to
inspiration and guidance is a right."
Joe Seddon graduated from university with £200 left from his student loan and an idea to revolutionise access to higher education. Since then, Zero Gravity has grown from a bedroom startup into an award-winning social enterprise. And this is just the beginning.
Our results
Launched in 2020, Zero Gravity has already mentored 1000+ students from across all four corners of the UK into Russell Group universities. We’re growing so fast that, by 2023, we predict our platform will be mentoring 10,000+ low-income students into top universities every year.
According to UCAS, our students are 40% more likely to achieve top university places than comparable applicants.
Our platform
One-to-one mentoring is proven to be one of the best ways to realise potential. But until now, mentorship has been out of reach for most students. So we’ve built the Zero Gravity platform to make our incredible network of mentors available anytime, anywhere to students from low-income backgrounds.
Our digital platform makes it possible for students to level up their university ambitions through their mobile phone.
Awards
We’re redefining what it means to be an impact-driven organisation. Our Zero Gravity brand has already won three European Brand Awards and we’ve been recognised with a social impact award by the Prime Minister.
We’ve put the defiant ambition of our students at the heart of our brand.
Scholarships
More than just a mentoring platform, Zero Gravity is a talent engine for the UK’s brightest students from low-income backgrounds. Each year we fund thousands of pounds of scholarships for our most dedicated students to ensure money is never a barrier to studying at a top university.
If you’re a philanthropist interested in supporting a charity with proven impact, please get in touch!
Success stories
"My success is a
win for the entire fairground community"
Learn how Milly went from dropping out of school at 13 to winning an offer to study Classics at Oxford University with the support of a Zero Gravity mentor.
Our philosophy
We do things differently. Our six founding principles are the driving force behind our success and keep us at the cutting-edge of social impact.
If you have a press enquiry, want to become a partner, or just want to say hello; feel free to get in touch through our contact form or any of the alternative methods listed below.
Zero Gravity is a partnership between two organisations:
Zero Gravity Tech Ltd - A certified social enterprise that reinvests income from partnerships into free-to-use mentoring for state school students from low-income backgrounds
Zero Gravity Fund - a registered charity that provides cash grants to top university students from low-income backgrounds.
Whilst the social enterprise and charity share the Zero Gravity brand, the two organisations are governed separately and are financially independent.
Our mission is to enable our students to reach their incredible potential. To achieve that, we need to be able to reach our own potential and we believe the social enterprise model is the best model to ensure our long-term sustainability. Solving a problem as significant as social mobility requires a lot of money, especially when pioneering a tech-driven approach. Setting up as a social enterprise rather than a charity provides us with greater access to the tech funding required to have the biggest possible social impact across the UK.
Many businesses have a positive social impact as a by-product of what they do. As a social enterprise, we have it at our core. Currently, our social enterprise costs are funded by our social impact investors. In the future, we’ll become self-sustaining by connecting universities and employers with what they need: access to the incredible talent of our members. Their support pays for more free services so our community can continue to grow. An exponential virtuous circle with one shared goal - to defy gravity.
Zero Gravity Fund is funded by individual and institutional donors who want to support our social mission through charitable giving. Donations to the Fund are transformed into scholarships which are distributed to Zero Gravity members to fund their personal development whilst at university. Our social enterprise provides pro bono services to the Fund so that 100% of donations go to our students.
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