# KPMG supports student advice organisation in helping disadvantaged school-leavers

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/10/03/kpmg-supports-student-advice-organisation-helping-disadvantaged-schoolleavers/
- Published: 2013-10-03T08:46:47+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Professional services firm KPMG is helping student advice organisation Push by providing
training and other services for its ‘Simply Skilled’ programme for sixth-formers
from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Simply Skilled will include training sessions run in schools all over the country
followed by “immersive events” at KPMG offices in London, Birmingham and Manchester,
designed to give them an experience of a working environment.

In addition to raising the aspirations and prospects of thousands of young people,
KPMG of course hopes the Simply Skilled will result in some students keen to make
a career with the firm.

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[Push](http://www.push.co.uk) will deliver the trianing sessions, bringing its own
mix of independent advice and entertainment. KPMG staff will attend many of them
too.

On behalf of KPMG, Marianne Fallon, Head of Corporate Affairs at KPMG, said: “Working
with Push has helped us to come up with a plain-speaking, appealing approach that
reflects KPMG’s desire to increase accessibility and improve social mobility.”

Simply Skilled will run from October to the end of 2013 and there are plans to extend
the scheme into 2014 and beyond.

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