Action on Access is the national provider of coordination and support for furthering widening participation and access to higher education in the UK. We are a support and change management organisation who’s goal is to combat educational inequality and to break the barriers that many learners face particularly to access and succeed in higher education.

We have over twelve years of experience, an extensive network of experts and allied organisations and clients to deliver our work. Action on Access has an excellent reputation and is acknowledged nationally as the organisation of choice for those working to widen participation and ensure fair access to the sector.

Our commitment and expertise in progression to further and higher education and in student success, together with our highly-valued and well-used electronic event and publication platform, which reaches over 1,500 practitioners, continue successfully to provide our clients (everyone in access, widening participation, and student success and retention working in higher education providers, collaborative outreach partners, stakeholder organisations and funders, or as independent educational consultants) with specific solutions to their needs – while contributing to a coordinated national strategic approach and support for broadening access and widening participation.

Most importantly Action on Access works with institutional leaders, managers and practitioners; policy makers; funders and stakeholder groups to promote inclusivity and diversity, challenge exclusion, and to lobby for the widest broadest possible access to higher education which will, in turn, contribute significantly to greater social mobility.

We are hosted by NIACE, and to have the support of key organisations across the sector.

Action on Access is proud to have strong strategic alliances and associations with