LEDLET Summer Scheme 2017

Grant: £5,500
November 9, 2016

In July every year, LEDLET invites ten lower-sixth-form students from across Wales to spend a week in legal London undertaking legal work experience and receiving careers advice. The students are selected according to merit and means, with priority given to those from particularly underprivileged backgrounds and disadvantaged areas – factors the application form helps identify. Each applicant is profiled according to socio-economic demographic data. Lower-sixth students are targeted in order to influence their selection of universities and degree courses in advance of the oncoming autumn term.

Each student spends a day with a barrister, a day with a solicitor and a day sitting with a judge at the Old Bailey. On their last morning, they receive guidance on university applications from admissions tutors at University College London. In the evening they meet Welsh law students and lawyers, and participate in moots and educational events, which are modified each year according to feedback from the previous year’s students.

The entirety of their travel, meals and accommodation is funded by LEDLET. Bursaries are made available to those who do not own a suit and cannot afford to buy their own.

The LEDLET Summer Scheme 2016

Grant: £6,500
November 10, 2015

In July every year, LEDLET invites ten lower-sixth-form students from across Wales to spend a week in legal London undertaking legal work experience and receiving careers advice. Students are selected according to merit and means, with priority given to those from particularly underprivileged backgrounds and disadvantaged areas. Lower-sixth-form students are targeted with a view to influencing their selection of universities and degree courses in advance of the oncoming autumn term and UCAS applications.

Each student spends a day with a barrister, a day with a solicitor and a day sitting with a judge at the Old Bailey. On their last morning, they receive guidance on university applications from admissions tutors at University College London. In the evening they meet Welsh law students and lawyers, and participate in moots and educational events e.g. a seminar with the Chairman of the Law Commission, and lectures at law firms.

The entirety of their travel, meals and accommodation is funded by LEDLET. Bursaries are made available to those who do not own a suit and cannot afford to buy their own.

Summer School

Grant: £7,000
November 26, 2014

This funding will allow additional spaces on its London Summer School for Welsh young people.

Programme for Welsh Less Advantaged Young People

Grant: £10,000
November 27, 2013

The purpose of the project is to bring eight young Welsh people from less advantaged backgrounds who are about to undertake their GCSE examinations and those who are in the first year of sixth form to London for a week to learn about the legal profession to stimulate their interest in becoming lawyers. Students are provided with three days’ work-shadowing experience in barristers’ chambers, solicitors’ practices and courts, respectively. There also visit Parliament, to view a moot at Gray’s Inn, and meet with current law students. A soft skills training session from an admissions officer from one of the London universities will speak to the students about university applications, and there will be a mock university interview.