Awards 2021: Coaching, mentoring, and L&D supporting the real ‘Levelling Up’ agenda – helping underserved & marginalised communities achieve social mobility and equity

For Inemmo’s young coachees, the process of ‘levelling up’ is a personal psychological experience, grounded in their lived experience in (typically) socially immobile and underserved black and brown communities in London. In the UK, meritocratic education discourse continues to present schools as ‘engines of social mobility’ regardless of an individual’s circumstances.