Access Accountancy – as a signatory member of Access Accountancy, ACCA are partnering with accounting practices and organisations to support young people from lower soci-economic backgrounds into the profession.  If you're interested in getting your business or employer involved becoming a signatory for Access Accountancy, please speak to the Early Careers Manager or a member of the Bsuiness Development team. 

Bright Network – our university partner helping us to attract engaged, high quality undergraduates and graduates across the UK to ACCA. 

Careers and Enterprise Company – We partner with the Careers and Enterprise Company and sit on their Employer Advisory board as well as working with Careers Hubs in regions across England. 

Become an Enterprise Advisor for a local school

We also support the Careers and Enterprise Company to recruit for local Enterprise Advisors.  

Careers Wales – We collaborate with Careers Wales by supporting and participating in their early careers activity such as their virtual careers exhibition in spring 2022 and careers events they host across the country. 

Valued Partner Initiative:

Last year Careers Wales launched the School Valued Partner initiative.  The scheme celebrates a relationship between a school and employer, with employers becoming Valued Partners with a school once they have engaged three times with the school over a year. It’s is a great way to acknowledge the engagement work that employers do and build long lasting relationships with schools.

Developing Young Workforce – DYW are the early careers branch  of Skills Development Scotland. We collaborate with them on schools partnerships, hosting and promoting webinars and work experiences across Scotland, as well as supporting their initiatives such as results and careers week in Scotland. Please let us know if you’re interested in hosting an event with DYW. 

Migrant Leaders – learn how ACCA member Elham Fardad’s charity Migrant Leaders is supporting first and second generation refugees to achieve their career potential across the Professions. View the Migrant Leaders Q&A webinar here. 

Migrant leaders is interested to hear from ACCA members who are interested in becoming mentors to the members of the programme's cohort.  Please reach out to the Early Careers Manager to find out more. 

Speakers for Schools – our virtual platform hosts which allow us to host content which educates young people from schools across the UK on our profession and it’s entry routes.

If you're interested in hosting a session on behalf of ACCA, please let Lorna, the Early Careers Manager know.  This could be by hosting a webinar, virtual skills session or work experience for young people.

Teach First Careers Leaders Programme – ACCA is a partner of education charity Teach First, who are training teachers to become Careers Leaders in their schools to level the careers provision playing field across England.

Young Enterprise Scotland- ACCA supports Young Enterprise Scotland in various ways.  This includes providing Business Mentors to school students taking part in the Company Programme, and contributing to delivery of financial education videos and sessions for teachers and high school students. 

Please speak to the Early Careers Manager to find out more about the Business Mentor vacancies available or any other opporuntites that my be available for ACCA students and members to get invovled in. 

Your Game Plan – In 2021 and now again in 2022, we sponsor our schools charity partner, Your Game Plan’s Dragon’s Den style competition for young entrepreneurs between the ages of 14-16. Find out more about the Side Hustle initiative here. We also partner on the “careers in accountancy" module delivered to the charity’s schools partners across the UK – to support teachers in schools educate their young people on the profession and the entry pathways. 

See the introductory video here.

The Youth Employment Network is a platform developed by Your Game Plan in partnership with ACCA, with the aim connecting SME employers with schools to support filling the upskilling young people to enable skills gaps to be closed at a local level.  Speak to the ACCA Early Careers Manager or Business Develkopment team to find out more.