Who can apply?
Applications were invited from anyone over the age of 18 (as at 30 April 2024), who identifies with coming from an under-represented background in either the environmental field or legal field, as highlighted in the 2017 report from Policy Exchange and discussed in the Institute for Environmental Sciences 2022 report but also including those with protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. This may include those who: identify as any ethnicity other than White British; identify with the protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
How to apply?
Closing date for this year's mentoring programme is Midnight, Sunday 30 June 2024.
Please download and complete this application form and send it together with a covering note outlining your suitability to benefit from and take part in this scheme to [email protected] by Midnight on Sunday 30 June 2024, together with all required documents. All applications will be acknowledged, if you have not heard from us please let us know.
Please help us to reach as many people as possible by downloading our flyer about the scheme to share with your networks / place on noticeboards.
Follow up reporting
Each successful applicant will be required to submit a short report about their placement. The mentor will also be asked to provide a short feedback report to you and to UKELA.