“Reading last year’s Impact Report, and reflecting on this year’s achievements, the one word that comes to mind is “more”.

We’ve travelled to more schools.

We’ve helped more students.

Our Core Candidates have got more jobs.

Our sponsors have taken on more interns.

More volunteers have committed more of their time to help more young people from low income backgrounds.

At Fairfield we’ll never compromise the quality of the work we do for the sake of scale. I’m proud to say we’ve found a way of providing more of everything whilst maintaining our level of advice and guidance.

One of the main reasons we’ve been able to do this is our Alumni. The relevance of their recent experiences and the success they’ve achieved is both inspirational and informative for the younger groups in equal measure.

I also want to say thanks to all the teachers, community workers, finance industry volunteers and, most importantly, the hard working students. They inevitably take every opportunity we give them and maximise it, and that’s what keeps us going..

Here’s to more of the same for 2026.”
–

Laurie Robathan, CEO

Our Mission

Throughout the year we aim to meet with >5,000 16-18 year old students in Schools & Colleges in low income areas across the UK to discuss career opportunities in the finance industry. We provide practical steps students can take to increase their employability and better understand their career options. Our sessions are an easy way for these institutions to fulfil Gatsby Benchmarks 2, 4 & 5 in one free service for schools.

Building Regional Partnerships

We have continued to build long lasting relationships with schools, teachers, education trusts, charities and key figures in all the communities we visit.

We focus on visiting economic ‘cold spots’ across all regions of the UK and our team travelled over 5,000 miles during 2025 and have worked with institutions in 23 regions.

5,265

Students met during 2025

Our Mission

We offer intensive 1-1 careers guidance to c.50 ambitious university students from low income backgrounds per year. The Core Programme helps in providing technical training, commercial awareness, internship opportunities and selective industry exposure.

Fairfield also host and cover participation costs for regular in person events with panels of senior experts from a variety of industry sectors.
The purpose of the Core Programme is to help create the industry leaders of the future.

Volunteers

Fairfield have a group of experienced volunteers who are senior experts within their respective fields. We cover the full range of sectors including Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Asset Management, Wealth Management and Consulting.

Successes

This year our candidates have gone on to secure permanent roles at a range of top firms across all sectors including:

Citibank, Time Investments, Polus, JP Morgan, BNP Paribas, UBS and many more..

>90%

Percentage of Core Candidates who have secured suitable roles in their chosen industry sector

Our permanent staff, Board of Trustees and Industry Advisors have a broad range of expertise and experience across the breadth of the finance industry. We commit to only providing candidates with insights from those with first hand experience of their chosen fields.

For a full list of our Industry Advisors and team bios view our Industry Advisors and our Team pages.

150+

We have just over 150 volunteers from firms across the City who input selectively into our candidates’ progress. They are all expert professionals who offer specific insights into their sectors.