Educators
We run top-rated career acceleration and gap year programs
We’re a UK-based company and we’ve run our programs in four countries providing enriching educational experiences for some of the world’s top young talent.
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What we offer schools
We provide in-person presentations on planning a gap year, the future of work and entrepreneurship.
Planning a Meaningful Gap Year
We have operations in Asia-Pacific and we’ve helped hundreds of students plan and experience their first big trip abroad.
In this talk, our Founder Clare will walk you through some of the things to think about before your trip.
About Us
Start Me Up is an education startup that combines in demand skills learning with adventurous travel. Over 300 people have taken part in our program in four different countries.
My time running my business in Asia helped me refine my skills and outlook and completely changed my attitude towards lifelong skills development and careers. And I thought the experience would be beneficial to more people – especially young people.
At university, I always felt I was given poor information about careers and found little inspiration about interesting career paths. I’m alarmed to be visiting university campuses over ten years later to be finding the same things.
A bit about me…
A former business journalist. I graduated in PPE from Oxford in 2006. After deciding what I didn’t want to do with my life, I opted to be a financial journalist and worked in London and New York. During that time I also did stints for the business sections of The Times and The Telegraph in London. Once I landed my ‘dream job’, I realized that I didn’t like it very much. Entering an industry that was being squeezed wasn’t a fun experience. Later I switched to consulting and ghostwriting for everyone from Fortune 100 clients to startups looking to get featured in publications like Forbes.
Clare Harrison
Founder, Start Me Up
Our Alumni’s Schools
Marlborough School, UK
Learn skills to launch startups.
“I learned a huge variety of essential skills from marketing to web development. I have also had access to mentors and industry leaders to help me with my own startup idea. The wealth of experiences and contacts were invaluable.”
St Paul’s School, London, UK
We provide opportunities to learn invaluable skills for the CV and travel.
“I was looking for opportunities to work while I was traveling because I didn’t want to spend the whole time just traveling around, I also wanted to do something interesting.”
Our alumni have gone onto a variety of top universities…
Why Start Me Up?
Start Me Up is an award-winning provider of entrepreneurial education programs.
Our alumni have gone onto some of the top universities and work at some of the world’s most prestigious companies.
Co-working space membership
Accommodation
Workshops
Mentors
I really liked Start Me Up because its programs are based in co-working spaces, not offices.
So you could meet people, network with them and get some more ideas about what you want to do in the future.
I attended several workshops run by people with very successful businesses.
They had great insights and tips on how to build a business from scratch, and advice on what we should and shouldn’t do.
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100% were happy with the support the Start Me Up team provided during their program
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96% rating on Go Overseas
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Our alumni give us on average 9/10 for their overall experience with us
Program alumni destinations have included…
Health and Safety
As an overseas program provider, we take our responsibilities very seriously. We have a sizeable local and international team in the countries where we operate and we undertake regular risk assessments.
All of our team are trained in health and safety procedures and we have detailed checklists in place to ensure that team members know how to act to
promote the highest standards in health and safety.
This includes procedures about what to do in the event that students experience anything from physical illnesses, injuries and mental health issues, to natural disasters.
All participants receive on-boarding, orientation and training before the program starts. This covers information about what to do in the event of an emergency, evacuation points and emergency contacts. Full details of what we offer in terms of on-boarding are available on request.