In late 2023, the Hg Foundation funded the South West Social Mobility Commission to explore how to get more young people in the South-West peninsula of the UK, especially those from under-resourced backgrounds, to work and thrive in tech jobs.

The Commission’s report from that work was released in April 2024 and can be found here.

This report provides an update on the project one year on, including how the work is feeding into the Foundation’s flagship tech work experience programme with Speakers for Schools, Into Tech