#TeamWarwickUni is the University of Warwick's amateur fundraising activity team. Ten of us have entered Stratford AC's Cotswold Hilly 100 – a 10x10 mile relay race through the hills of the Cotswolds (quite a change for us flatlanders down in Coventry).

We are raising funds for IntoUniversity Coventry. IntoUniversity is a national education charity with a mission to raise the aspirations of young people from the poorest homes across the UK. These young people face a considerable educational disadvantage – statistically they do far less well at school, they are less likely to go to university and they have little chance of entering the professions. IntoUniversity aims to challenge this, supported by university partners, by establishing learning centres in key geographical locations, one of them in the University of Warwick's home city of Coventry.

There, the University of Warwick and IntoUniversity work with children in the primary years in order to have a decisive impact upon their futures. Continuous academic and pastoral support is given to young people visiting the centres right through to university application. It is the only organisation with a centre-based model, starting with children aged seven and offering a long-term, multi-strand programme to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

With your help, Warwick and IntoUniversity will provide an integrated programme of academic support, pastoral care and mentoring for young people (aged between 7 and 18) in the area. The Coventry IntoUniversity Centre will help to transform the lives of many young people in the city. The centre will expect to see approximately 1,900 unique students over its first five years and is confident it will support 75% of those students to go to University.

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