Welcome!

Here at Shaping Futures, we aim to provide all secondary schools and colleges across the Liverpool City region with comprehensive, impartial information, advice and support on all matters relating to Higher Education in one easily accessible place.

Welcome!

Here at Shaping Futures, we aim to provide all secondary schools and colleges across the Liverpool City region with comprehensive, impartial information, advice and support on all matters relating to Higher Education in one easily accessible place.

Happy winter break from the Shaping Futures team! ☃️ Out of office is on as we get ready to hit the ground running in 2025.

A huge THANK YOU to all the support this year, from inviting us into your schools to scrolling our site. We’re excited to see what the new year brings!🎉

🌟12 days of Shaping Futures 🌟

We work across all 6 Liverpool City Region boroughs to deliver interventions that meet the needs of local learners. Big shout out to our delivery staff and student advocates who travel across the region to deliver our sessions to our learners 🥳

🌟12 days of Shaping Futures 🌟

Day 7 celebrates 7 whole years of Shaping Futures, the Merseyside Uni Connect programme! 🥳 Thank you to everybody who has taken part in Shaping Futures over those 7 years. We couldn’t do this without you! ✨

#UniConnect #HEOutreach

🌟12 days of Shaping Futures 🌟

Meet our core team! We have lots of partners and staff that support our programme across the region, but it’s these 8 team members that are shaping futures 24/7.

Of course the star atop our tree this year is our brilliant Head of Programme, Kev!

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What we do

Here at Shaping Futures, we aim to provide all secondary schools and colleges across the Liverpool City region with comprehensive, impartial information, advice and support on all matters relating to Higher Education in one easily accessible place.

As a partnership of 12 local providers of Higher Education, Shaping Futures are committed to ensuring learners, parents, teachers and advisers are fully equipped to better understand the Higher Education landscape, to access outreach locally and to support learners with the HE decision making process.

The Shaping Futures Hub provides a one stop shop for teachers and advisers to identify what outreach support is available across the Liverpool City Region. Our Hub website offers secondary schools and colleges access to a range of Higher Education appropriate information, useful links and handy materials.

Shaping Futures is funded as part of the Office for Students’ UniConnect programme. To learn more click below.

Since 2017, we have...

worked with 64,000+

learners

delivered 8,800+ activities

worked with 200+ schools