10,000 Black Interns Programme 2026 – YOA

Deadline: Unspecified

Applications are open for the 10,000 Black Interns Programme 2026. This transformative initiative affords useful paid internship alternatives throughout over 40 sectors and workstreams, with the objective of accelerating illustration and entry for Black expertise within the United Kingdom.

10,000 Interns Foundation envisions a future the place Black professionals are thriving throughout each sector, at each stage – not by exception, however by design. Where lack of illustration is now not a speaking level and OPPORTUNITY is in every single place. A future the place inclusion is lived, and fairness is embedded into the techniques that form work. That’s the office they’re constructing – one programme, one partnership, and one internship at a time.

Benefits

• Access to paid internships throughout greater than 40 totally different sectors of the UK economic system
• Professional expertise in world companies, main organisations, and excessive-progress enterprises
• Opportunity to construct profession confidence, achieve expertise, and develop skilled networks
• Increased visibility and pathways to everlasting roles for excellent candidates

Eligibility

This programme is open solely to candidates who’re:

• Of Black African, Black Caribbean, Black British, or combined Black heritage
• Over 18 years previous, and who meet one of many following standards:
  • Studying at a UK college at undergraduate or postgraduate stage
  • Recently graduated from a UK college (from 2022 onwards)
  • On a spot 12 months with a confirmed place at a UK college

Applicants should even have the authorized proper to work full-time within the United Kingdom in the course of the internship interval in Summer 2026.

Application

There are 40+ sectors or workstreams represented beneath the programme. You will likely be prompted to pick three areas of curiosity and be requested to clarify, in as much as 250 phrases, why you have an interest in an internship in every of those workstreams.

Your application will likely be despatched to organisations which have internships obtainable in correlating enterprise areas or workstreams and your solutions will inform whether or not they resolve to take your application ahead, so keep in mind to proofread your work and benefit from your 250 phrases!

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For extra data, go to 10000 Black Interns Programme.