Reports
SOMOs 2024: Key Findings Report
In this report, we explore the work done by employers and educators to advance social mobility in 2023-24, as well as barriers overcome and key enablers to effective social mobility work. Based on analysis of entries to the UK Social Mobility Awards 2024, we examine...
SOMOs 2023 Winners’ Case Studies Report
In this report, we celebrate the employers and educators who won UK Social Mobility Awards in 2023. Across our 11 categories, we examine winners’ activities, enabling factors, challenges overcome, and how they define social mobility success. Our 2023 winners represent...
SOMOs 2023: Key Findings Report
In Reaching potential? Advancing Social Mobility in 2022-23, we analyse all eligible entries to the UK Social Mobility Awards (SOMOs) 2023 to explore the work done by employers and educators to advance social mobility over the past year, as well as barriers overcome...
SOMOs 2022 Winners’ Case Studies Report
In this report, we celebrate the employers and educators who won UK Social Mobility Awards in 2022. Across our 12 categories, we examine winners’ activities, enabling factors, challenges overcome, and how they define social mobility success. Our 2022 winners represent...
SOMOs 2022: Key Findings Report
Awareness and engagement with social mobility in the UK continues to grow, and in 2022, more organisations than ever entered the UK Social Mobility Awards. In Widening the gate? Advancing social mobility in 2021-22, we analyse all entries submitted to the 2022 awards...
SOMOs 2021 Winners Case Studies Report
In this report, we celebrate the employers and educators who won UK Social Mobility Awards in 2021. Across each of the 11 categories, we examine winners’ activities, enabling factors, challenges overcome, how to measure success, and plans for the future. Our 2021...
SOMOs 2021: Key Findings Report
Employers and educational institutions continued to advance social mobility in 2020-21, in spite of ongoing challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most social mobility work over this period aimed to reach, recruit and retain people from less advantaged...
2020 Winners’ Case Studies – Interim Report
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 UK Social Mobility Awards took a very different format from previous years. However, work to advance social mobility continued across a range of industries and locations throughout the UK. The 2020 Winners’ Case Studies...
SOMOs 2019: Winners’ Case Studies Report
In 2019, the UK Social Mobility Awards built on the success of previous years, with a 30% increase in both entrants and entries. The 2019 SOMOs Winners’ Case Studies Report takes a closer look into the winner of each of the SOMO categories, including individual and...