5 Million Futures

5 Million Futures (5MF) is the Deloitte North and South Europe (NSE) social impact strategy, aiming to help five million people get to where they want to be through access to education and employment. 5MF seeks to address inequality by overcoming barriers to education and employment, empowering individuals with the skills needed to succeed in today’s economy.

Focused on inclusion and aligned to the UN’s Sustainable Development goals, 5MF is part of Deloitte’s Global WorldClass commitment to empower 100 million people by 2030. This is one of the ways we are bringing the firm’s purpose to life by making an impact that matters.

Read more about Deloitte's purpose.

In addition to our locally-led 5 Million Futures partnerships, we also have a number of national partners and procurement relationships that help us focus our impact across the UK.

Action Tutoring

Before the pandemic, disadvantaged students were on average, 18 months behind their more advantaged peers by the end of secondary school. The pandemic has made this worse. Action Tutoring supports these young people to achieve academically by partnering them with volunteer tutors. Deloitte volunteers are tutoring primary and secondary school students in maths and English weekly over a school term. Not only does this regular support improve subject knowledge but it also increases confidence and study skills, whilst enabling our people to use and develop their communication, organisational and relationship skills.

Be the Business

Be the Business is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, with a singular goal: to help business owners and leaders improve the performance and productivity of their business for the health of the UK’s economy. Deloitte works with Be the Business to provide founders of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) a Deloitte mentor to support their businesses to grow and scale. Deloitte mentors use their business skills and experience to support these businesses.

Blueprint for All

Blueprint for All believes that race, ethnicity, or background should not limit what one can achieve in life. As part of our Black Action Plan and with a focus on equality of opportunity, Deloitte has partnered with Blueprint for All and are supporting them through pro bono, volunteering and fundraising. Together, we have also developed a new bursary scheme designed for students of Black, Asian, and minority ethnic heritage and from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds, to support their ambitions to carve out a successful future.

Business in the Community

Business in the Community (BITC) is one of the oldest and largest business-led membership organisations dedicated to responsible business. BITC inspires, engages, and challenges their members to create a skilled inclusive workforce by building thriving communities in which to live. Their vision is for the UK to lead the world in responsible business practices. Deloitte works with BITC delivering career coaching and employability skills sessions to members of the community.

CAST

CAST is a charity helping organisations use digital for social good. Deloitte and CAST are working together to deliver Deloitte Digital Connect, a new initiative to help charities close the digital divide. Digital Connect will bring together up to 50 charities to connect them with expertise, advice, and a network to support their digital development to enhance their community impact.

Governors for Schools

Governors for Schools finds, places, and supports skilled volunteers as governors and trustees on school and academy boards. Deloitte is supporting strong and sustainable school leadership by engaging our people to become school governors, bringing their skills and expertise to the table and improving education for children. In turn, Governors for Schools provides access to high-quality, curated learning and skills development offering a great professional and personal development opportunity to our people.

Just Like Us

Deloitte has partnered with Just Like Us, a charity focused on LGBTQ+ education and inclusion in schools and empowering young LGBTQ+ people. Our partnership supports their Ambassador Programme, which recruits, trains, and supports LGBTQ+ ambassadors aged 18-25 to deliver inspiring and educational school sessions which champion LGBTQ+ equality. The programme also helps ambassadors develop their skills and confidence, increasing employability.

Teach First

Where you’re from shouldn’t determine where you’re going. Yet too often it does. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds don’t start with the same chances and the inequality continues throughout childhood. It’s not their fault and it isn’t fair. Teach First is fighting to make our education system work for every child by getting great teachers and brilliant leaders into schools serving disadvantaged communities where they can make a lasting difference. Since 2006, Deloitte has supported Teach First by donating more than £2 million, supporting 1,352 teachers and leaders, and impacting 414,700 pupils to date. Deloitte is currently working with Teach First to support strong and sustainable school leadership by funding the delivery of its National Professional Qualification, which supports teachers into leadership roles in the schools facing the biggest challenges.

The Access Project

Disadvantaged young people are five times less likely to go to a top university in comparison to more advantaged students, according to the Department for Education. The Access Project's mission is to address this. Deloitte and The Access Project work together with students from these backgrounds to help them access top universities through tutoring and mentoring. Deloitte volunteers are helping young people with their GCSEs and A-Levels for an hour every week during the school year. This extra support not only helps to improve a student’s grades but also provides them with a role model, whilst helping our people to use and develop their communication, organisational and relationship skills. We know that through our joint efforts students on the programme are more than twice as likely as similarly disadvantaged students to attend top universities.

TutorMate

It all starts with literacy. Even before the pandemic struck a shocking 36% of disadvantaged 11-year-olds in England left primary school unable to read well. Using the TutorMate platform, developed by charity Innovations for Learning, Deloitte volunteers are reading weekly with struggling 5-6 year olds in five Doncaster schools. Volunteers support their readers through stories and reading and word games over the school year. Combined with their classroom work, this can increase their reading levels significantly making sure that they don’t fall further behind.

Soil Association

The charity’s mission is to help everyone understand and explore the vital relationship between the health of our soil, plants, animals and people to combat the effects of intensive farming systems. As part of this ambition, we will explore the development of an economic framework to incentivise more sustainable farming and land management.

Whale & Dolphin Conservation

The ocean covers 70% of the planet’s surface, is our largest carbon sink and an essential part of the nature-based solution to the climate crisis. Whales are keystone species, helping to absorb and sequester huge amounts of carbon and fertilising the microscopic plants that soak up carbon dioxide. We are working with Whale and Dolphin Conservation to scale the development of a blue carbon market, based on the immense carbon storage abilities of whales, to help finance whale conservation globally.

Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust

Deloitte is supporting Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust’s (WWT) vision of a world where healthy wetland nature thrives, enriches lives and protects endangered species and habitats. We are helping WWT to promote the value of wetland creation to companies tackling climate change, with a focus on the role of saltmarsh in capturing and locking away ‘blue carbon’ (the carbon stored in coastal and marine ecosystems) to make investment in this habitat more accessible and compelling.