The aim of the partnership is to empower young people from under-represented backgrounds by providing them with a programme of mentoring and a paid internship, skills master classes, and workplace visits.

UK-based Evelyn Partners, a wealth management and professional services group, has agreed a three-year corporate partnership with social mobility charity Career Ready.

The Career Ready programme empowers young people from under-represented backgrounds by providing them with a programme of mentoring and a paid internship, skills master classes, and workplace visits.

As part of the partnership, workplace visits will take place across Evelyn Partners’ Birmingham, Glasgow and London offices, where Career Ready has existing relationships. Staff at those locations will deliver financial literacy masterclasses to those signed up to Career Ready’s programme. Evelyn Partners' employees will also act as mentors for those taking the first steps in their career, as well as hosting them for a paid, four-week internship.

The group hopes to expand to more locations in the future years of the collaboration.

“I am delighted that we have now signed and committed to three years of supporting this wonderful charity. This aligns perfectly with our charities and community objective of helping to improve diversity in financial and professional services,” Charley Davies (pictured), group general counsel and group executive committee lead on charities and community at Evelyn Partners, said. “The combination of workplace visits and a structured mentoring programme managed by Evelyn Partners and Career Ready will help support young people taking their first steps in what we hope will be a long and successful career.”

“There’s never been a more important time to invest in future talent and the support of Evelyn Partners and their people will make a truly transformational difference to the lives of young people,” Tokunbo Ajasa-Oluwa, CEO of Career Ready, added.