The Smallpeice Trust delivers interactive activities to encourage 8 – 18-year-olds to study STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects and go onto a career in engineering.

The Trust provides experiences that inspire students to stay on STEM pathways and helps them build essential skills, with a focus on under-represented groups, to:

1. Increase student and teacher awareness of STEM careers, focused on engineering options
2. Increase students interest in STEM careers (level 3+), particularly in under-represented groups
3. Increate student understanding and appreciation of engineering as a career 
4. Build understanding of the entry requirements and skills required for engineering careers
5. Enhance student life skills in problem solving, communications and teamwork

Without the Trust’s services there will continue to be a lack of young people in the UK choosing STEM educational pathways that make an engineering career possible, the UK’s shortage of engineering skills will continue, and major societal challenges will not be addressed.