10,000 Black Interns opens applications for 2022 internship programme

Aims to place 2,000 black interns

10,000 Black Interns has opened applications for its programme to place at least 2,000 young black people a year in business internships for at least five years, following the first series of internships which delivered 501 placements at a range of companies, including asset managers.

The 2022 programme aims to place more than 2,000 interns in paid roles at over 700 businesses across 24 sectors of British industry, with applications open from 6 September until 7 November 2021. 10,000 Black Interns, which was set up to transform the prospects of young black people in the UK, said that the internships are available to individuals from black African, black Caribbean, mixed black and/or other black British backgrounds who are over the age of 18 and are currently studying at university in the UK, or who have graduated since 2018. The internships will constitute paid wor...