Sharla founded Team Up (formerly known as YELP Students) in 2008, as a student at King's College London.
Team Up uses tuition, delivered by inspirational role models, to enable pupils from low income backgrounds to meaningfully increase their academic attainment, in order to improve the choices open to them. By having a chance encounter with a friend who attended private school, she became aware of the stark inequalities of opportunity for young people from different social backgrounds. Coming from a
27/01/2024
🎉📘 Happy National Fun at Work Day from all of us at Team Up! 🌟
At Team Up, we believe in infusing fun into education. As our programme manager Rachel highlights, we make our sessions awesome with cool educational games, tasty treats, and genuine connections that make everything we do super rewarding.
What fun activities are you incorporating into your sessions? Share your thoughts with us! 🎲🍪
09/01/2024
🌸 Spring 2024 Update: Calling All Tutor Heroes! 🦸♀️🦸♂️
Following our stellar success in 2023, we're delighted to expand our tuition programme to New Malden, Notting Hill, Newham, and Hillingdon.
This exciting growth opens up opportunities for more passionate tutors to join our dynamic team!
Ready to inspire? Follow the sign-up link in our bio now! 📚💫
06/01/2024
🌱Join Team Up Today – We need you more than ever in 2024!
Thanks to our dedicated volunteer tutors, Team Up made a significant impact in 2023, reaching over 120 pupils in need ✨
In Spring term 2024, our goal is to empower more than 200 young learners. Your contribution can turn aspirations into achievements 🏆
Follow the sign up link in our bio if you’re ready to make a difference!
04/12/2023
Team Up are extremely grateful to everybody who attended and donated at last weeks's conference hosted by 10x10 Philanthropy.
Pippa discussed the strengths of our tutorship programmes helping tackle educational inequality. You can find out more on our website: https://teamup.org.uk.
We also had the pleasure of listening to The Vavengers discuss their inspiring work in supporting FGM/C survivors and ending gender based violence.
More generally, thank you to Vinson & Elkins LLP who organised the whole event!
12/09/2023
We are looking for volunteer tutors in the Newham area to give a few hours of their time to support disadvantaged students in reaching their full potential.
The volunteer opportunities we have available are as follows:
Mondays 14.30-15.15 -Eastlea Community School E16 4NP
Tuesdays 14.30-16.15- Rokeby School E16 4DD
Thursdays 14.15-15.45 - St Angela’s School E7 8HU
If you would be interested in supporting your community and ensuring every child has equal opportunities please follow the link below: https://tutor-application-form.web.app/
We can't wait to hear from you!
12/09/2023
Are you in the Hillingdon area, have a few hours on a Friday morning and want to create a brighter future for your community?
We are recruiting tutors to support the pupils at Oak Wood School in their English/Maths skills. We would love to hear from you so please submit a short application through the following link: https://tutor-application-form.web.app/
11/09/2019
Our tutor Shinu Mittal talks about her incredible experiences volunteering on our programme:
https://teamup.org.uk/whats-happening/news/i-would-thank-team-letting-me-be-part-such-amazing-team
https://teamup.org.uk/how-it-works/role-models/apply-now/apply-now
29/08/2019
Click below to read all about how Team Up has been preparing to tackle the 'summer slide' in the Autumn term...
https://teamup.org.uk/whats-happening/news/back-school-how-much-have-pupils-forgotten
19/03/2019
Just one day left until our tutor seminar on 'Getting Things Done'. Find out more about why it's such a life-changing system:
It's possible! Improve work-life balance and productivity, reduce stress We are all busier than ever, feeling stressed, and wanting to be more productive, as well as having better work life balance. And we’re here to tell you it i...
14/03/2019
We are so excited about our leadership seminar on March 20th! Our volunteers will be learning how to apply the phenomenal 'Getting Things Done' method to improve productivity and personal effectiveness, all thanks to Next Action Associates :D
Our mentoring programme is about to launch! Would you like to further help us in our mission to address disadvantage in the education system, while gaining skills as a mentor? The commitment is just four sessions of about an hour, over sixth months, at the time and place (or via skype) that suit you. We are still looking for people with the following skills to mentor, do you know anyone?:
- Someone with experience in education/conservation in West Africa
- Lloyds/Barclays accountant or analyst (or any similar bank)
- Advice on graduate entry medicine
- Public mental health and research
- MI5/civil servant that studied ancient history
- Gaming industry that studied computer science
- Media/advertising world
- Neuroscientist
- Intelligence/law enforcement
- BlackRock, KPMG, E&Y, PWC, HSBC, Barclays in venture capital
- A surgeon
- Education tech start up
- NGO/policy/lobbying