Bridging the Future is a UK registered charity (No. 1201227) supporting young refugees, asylum seekers and forced migrants aged 16–21 into education through a free STEM summer school at UCL and a year-round online mentoring programme.https://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/en-gb© 2026 Bridging the Futurehttps://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/summer-school-2026-applications-open/https://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/summer-school-2026-applications-open/Our free STEM and English summer school returns to UCL in August 2026. Applications close at 5pm on Wednesday 15th July 2026 — two forms to submit.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnnouncementhttps://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/thank-you-to-our-supporters/https://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/thank-you-to-our-supporters/The Bhaskar family and the Campagnola family are among the supporters making our free summer school possible. Here is what their giving pays for.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTFundraisinghttps://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/the-gcse-vacuum/https://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/the-gcse-vacuum/A young person who arrives in the UK at 15 or 16 lands in the narrowest gap in the whole education system. Here is what that gap is made of — and what actually closes it.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnalysishttps://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/from-one-percent-to-fifteen/https://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/from-one-percent-to-fifteen/Global refugee enrolment in higher education has moved from 1% to around 5% in a few years. The target is 15% by 2030. Here is what the ladder looks like, where it breaks, and what the UK route actually involves.Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnalysishttps://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/inside-a-free-stem-summer-school/https://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/inside-a-free-stem-summer-school/What actually happens across eight days at University College London — the timetable, the science, the English, the costs we cover, and why the last afternoon matters more than the first.Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTProgrammeshttps://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/what-stem-mentoring-actually-involves/https://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/what-stem-mentoring-actually-involves/An honest account of our online mentoring scheme — the real time commitment, how pairs are matched, what happens in a session, what goes wrong, and what mentors say they got out of it.Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTVolunteeringhttps://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/where-the-money-goes/https://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/where-the-money-goes/A free programme is not a costless one. An open account of what we raise, what we spend it on, what is donated rather than bought, and what we would do with more.Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTTransparencyhttps://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/supporting-a-young-refugee-into-education/https://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/supporting-a-young-refugee-into-education/For teachers, college tutors, social workers, foster carers and volunteers: the questions to ask, the deadlines that matter, the routes that exist, and the twelve-month sequence that gets a young person from arrival to an application.Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTGuidehttps://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/ten-times-demand-in-2025/https://36c3b78c.bridgingthefuture.pages.dev/blog/ten-times-demand-in-2025/In 2025 our free summer school received 315 applications for 30 places. This is what those applications contained, why demand is rising, what actually limits our capacity, and what we decided to do about it.Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTImpact