join 93% PROFESSIONALS
Build your network. grow your career. back the next generation.
We’ve created a one-of-a-kind community for those without networks.
Join thousands of state-educated professionals across 50+ industries, expanding their networks, growing their careers, supporting students and proving that opportunity shouldn't depend on where you went to school.
WHAT YOU’ll get as a professional member
01/ Build your network with people who’ll back you
Build the kind of network that can open doors throughout your career.
Join thousands of ambitious, state-educated professionals from every industry and career stage. Whether you're looking for advice, opportunities or people who simply get it, you'll find them here.
Connect through our digital platform, in-person events, mentoring and introductions that help turn conversations into opportunities.
02/ Open doors that will grow your career
Your next opportunity could be one conversation away.
Access career support, employer connections, exclusive events and insights from professionals who've already walked the path you're on. Whether you're aiming for your first promotion, changing industries or stepping into leadership, you'll have a community behind you.
Because careers grow faster when you don't have to figure everything out alone.
03/ Opportunities to pay-it-forward the next generation
At the heart of The 93% Club is a bold mission to increase state-school representation in the UK’s most influential industries. By joining, you'll play a key role in this effort.
Our pay-it-forward philosophy offers countless opportunities to volunteer your time, experience, and knowledge to support junior members and students who want to follow in your footsteps. You’ll be able to offer the support you wish you’d had when you were first starting out in your career. Your 93% Professionals Membership also funds a place for a student member.
04/ The chance to redefine what it means to be state-educated in the UK
You’ll be joining a powerful, collective effort to flip the script on what it means to be state-educated in the UK.
You’ll help drive important conversations, challenge traditional biases, and advocate for more equitable representation and opportunities for state-educated individuals. Your voice can influence how employers, institutions, and society at large view and support state-educated professionals. Together we will build a State School Proud United Kingdom.
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HEAR FROM OUR MEMBERS
WHEREVER YOU ARE IN YOUR CAREER, THERE’S A PLACE FOR YOU HERE
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GRADUATE MEMBERSHIP
Get the head start you weren’t handed.
Meet people already working in the industries you want to break into, get the inside track on how things really work and build a network that can turn applications into introductions — and introductions into opportunities.
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JUNIOR TO MID LEVEL
Your next move shouldn’t depend on who you went to school with.
Find mentors, sponsors and peers who can help you get ahead, make the right introductions and give you the advice nobody puts in the employee handbook — while giving back and opening doors for those coming up behind you.
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SENIOR PROFESSIONALS
You’ve built the career. Now build the network and influence to match.
Meet senior people beyond your usual circles, open up new opportunities, raise your profile and use what you’ve learned to open doors for the next generation.
Don’t take our word for it
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Eve Williams
CEO, ebay UK
“Joining the 93% Club has been an enriching and motivating journey right from the beginning. As I reflect on my University days, I can’t help but imagine the profound impact it could have had if the 93% Club had been available back then”
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Alastair Campbell
Political Advisor
“The 93% Club represents the substantial majority of our nation's population. This group holds the potential to create a more expansive and robust network that ensures opportunity is distributed more equally. I wholeheartedly encourage you to lend your support and become a part of it.”
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Matt Barbet
Broadcaster, Sky News
“Joining The 93% Club is about lifting people up towards better future by providing the tools they can't buy.
I would urge anyone who cares about creating a more modern, equitable society that's not held back by an antiquated class system to join the club.”
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Paula Ruffell
Director, EY
“For me, it has just been so inspiring to being in a room with other state educated people where it just feels like I'm at home. There are no barriers here. Everyone's helping each other.”
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Peter Downie
Executive Managing Director, JLL
"I've really benefited my career from people who backed me and trusted me and found ways to help me out and introduce me to people. And it's so rewarding to get a chance to do that with other younger people coming into our industry, and especially people who don't have the usual access points or networks. So I really enjoy meeting people who come from different backgrounds and bringing them into our business and helping them be successful.”
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Minaya Arachilage
Capital Markets Graduate, JLL
“I wanted to join the network because I actually started off as a member of 93% Students. I went to every single event held by the Club when I was at university. I actually ended up being President, running my Club on campus. Over the course of my time in the Club I spoke to people around the network, and that helped me get me my job, and now I'm here as a professional!”
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Joanne Conway
Global Head of Inclusion, DLA Piper
“Our partnership with The 93% Club has been an important part of our social impact investment. It has allowed us to connect authentically with clients who share a common purpose, and it has provided a unique platform to network with other organisations.
Understanding that it's not just about getting in but also getting on in an organisation, the network provides a supportive community for state-educated people as they navigate and advance in the professional world.”
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Tanya Creavalle
Senior Director, Moody’s
“I've been the beneficiary of a lot of social mobility initiatives in the past. So for me, it's just really important to be able to give back in return.”
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Jenna Colaco
Haringey Council
“I've met people that worked in pharmaceutical companies. I met people in the civil service. I met people in teaching. It' has been crazy, because no other place had such a variety of different people here, and I got to learn again and again about all of their experiences.”
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Lauren Trigg
Graduate Surveyor, JLL
“93% Professionals provides a sense of belonging and it really is serving its purpose, in the first year of its inception, the network has grown from strength to strength. It has provided me with opportunities to connect cross-industry with peers and seniors, so much so, I have been able to generate a genuine business opportunity for JLL with a prospective client!”
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Gemma Townsend
Partner, EY
“What really resonated for me about 93% Professionals is that completely focused on people that went to a state school. We're all in different industries, different backgrounds, different levels, but we have this common thread, and I think it's really important".”
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Andrew Jolly
Partner, Slaughter and May
“Over 180 of our employees have now signed up to 93% Professionals and have been very positive about the benefits of having access to the online professional network, in person and online events, mentoring and opportunities to pay it forward.”
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Liseli Sumbwanyambe
Associate - leading management consultancy
“As a mid-level consultant, a key aspect of my career progression is my ability to engage effectively with clients. This does not come by default when state educated. Being part of 93% Professionals has given me access to a diverse network of people, all supporting each other to achieve. Through the network I have been able to expand my connections across a range of industries and career levels, which has not only been beneficial to my professional development but also my personal development.”
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Paul Leamy
Partner, Taylor Wessing
“93% Professionals is a powerful networking tool connecting state-educated professionals at all stages of their careers. Through the network I’ve met and assisted two experienced real estate investment and development professionals who’ve just launched a new advisory business. I'm also currently supporting an NQ solicitor looking for their next role – our paths may not have crossed if we had not been introduced by 93% Professionals.”
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Toby Lewis
Head of Threat Analysis, Darktrace
“Through the 93% Professionals community, I was introduced to an early career professional who lacked any local network to lean on. Over the last few months, I’ve been able to work with him as he grows in his role, building out his own confidence and expertise. A fellow 93% Professional member, who made the introduction, recently provided the following insight: He’s found it so helpful and it’s great to see him so enthusiastic after your talk ... it’s helped a lot for him to have someone with so much knowledge to call on.”
BECOME A MEMBER
93% Professionals Membership
Get on. Give back. Build relationships that can take your career further, access opportunities beyond your usual circles and open doors for the next generation. Your membership also funds a free student place.
Membership Benefits:
- Access to the 93% Virtual Clubhouse - connect with state-educated professionals across industries, career stages and seniority levels.
- Networking events - build relationships beyond your usual professional circles.
- Mentoring, both ways - learn from those ahead of you and share what you know with those coming up behind.
- Industry connections - access introductions, referrals, opportunities and insight from across the network.
- Professional development sessions - navigate your next move, build your profile and keep progressin
- Give back — support students and emerging professionals with the knowledge, connections and insider advice you wish you’d had.
- Fund a student place — every Professional membership funds free membership for one state-school student.
Pay-it-forward membership
Same membership. Bigger impact. Get everything included in 93% Professionals membership, with the option to fund even more free student places and help more state-schoolers get the network they deserve.
Membership Benefits:
- Fund even more free student places.
- Access to the 93% Virtual Clubhouse - connect with state-educated professionals across industries, career stages and seniority levels.
- Networking events - build relationships beyond your usual professional circles.
- Mentoring, both ways - learn from those ahead of you and share what you know with those coming up behind.
- Industry connections - access introductions, referrals, opportunities and insight from across the network.
- Professional development sessions - navigate your next move, build your profile and keep progressin
- Give back — support students and emerging professionals with the knowledge, connections and insider advice you wish you’d had.
- Fund a student place — every Professional membership funds free membership for one state-school student.
GET MEMBERSHIP FOR FREE THROUGH YOUR EMPLOYER
Join the leading employers giving membership as a staff benefit
When you become a corporate member, you gift your employees free access to 93% Professionals - the UK’s largest network of state-educated professionals.
The importance of belonging cannot be understated: with it having an enormous impact on retention with 50% drop in turnover risk and 56% increase in performance according to the Harvard Business Review.
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FAQs
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We’re the UK’s least exclusive network, and we mean it. While we focus on supporting state-educated people, privately educated allies who share our mission are always welcome.
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Absolutely! 93% Professionals is for both recent graduates and professionals who never had the chance to join the network before.
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It starts at £9.30 per month or £93 per year.
Can I get a subsidised membership?
We understand that everyone's circumstances are different. If the cost of membership is a barrier, please email us at professionals@93percent.club and we'll see how we can help. -
Your membership fee helps support our student members—that’s how you pay it forward!
As a proud not-for-profit, we keep membership free for students and reinvest all profits into our mission to transform what it means to be state-educated in Britain.
We’re funded by professional members and corporate partners, not large investors or grants, so professional memberships help sustain everything we do.
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Absolutely! Corporate memberships are available for organisations of all sizes.
Companies like EY, Boston Consulting Group, JLL, and Slaughter and May already offer free memberships as a staff benefit.
Email info@93percent.club to start the conversation.
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After signing up, you’ll get an email with your membership details and access to The 93% Club Hub. You’ll also receive an invite to Slack, where our community connects, shares content, and organises events.
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Our members come from over 75 different industries and from leading global companies and UK PLCs.
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Our flexible, community-driven approach lets you:
Ask questions and get advice from members.
Request a mentor or support from more seasoned professionals in your field.
Gain insights from experts at events.
Seize on new business opportunities advertised in the network.
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We host everything from casual meetups and coffee mornings to inspiring talks with industry leaders. You’ll also find structured events like our flagship Social Mobility Factory for networking and supporting students.
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We host events across the UK, so there’s plenty to get involved with wherever you are.
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Yes! We encourage mentorship as part of our pay-it-forward philosophy, but it’s completely optional.
You can find out more about participating in mentorship in The 93% Club Hub once you’ve signed up.
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Mentorship is encouraged but optional. We understand you’re busy—whether you mentor or not, you’re welcome in our community.
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There’s no set time commitment - dip in and out as it suits you or get more involved. It’s up to you.
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Our members have gone on to build valuable connections, discover new business opportunities, access mentoring that has accelerated their careers, and form meaningful friendships along the way. Whether you're looking to grow your network, progress your career or find people who just get it, you'll be in good company.
