Impact (formerly NGDP) 2025 - Cohort 27

Hi Everyone ! I am in Cohort 26 currently on the scheme in Barnsley. I interviewed and got offered places at both North Tyneside and Barnsley. As a student at Newcastle Uni I was set on staying in the North East however I was so impressed with the opportunity at Barnsley that I decided to move to Sheffield and take the place at Barnsley. Happy to answer any questions. I know what it feels like to be in your position good luck to everyone ! Also for anyone applying to Yorkshire region please consider Barnsley they care about the scheme so much and you get countless high level opportunities that aren’t available at every council. You can watch a video that we made recently about the scheme here ! 🙂 - worth a watch for everyone ! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kg8y8f-BPZw

has anyone got the link for tomorrows meeting?

has anyone got the link for tomorrows meeting?

Hi ! How many interviews does each person get ?

How should we style the personal statement? What is important to include? Do the councils have access to our assessment centre scores? Thanks

Anyone else planning to apply to Councils that they'd have to move for? There's so many to choose from and all of the information days for them are so condensed together!

Where did that stat come from, that's promising

Did/does anyone plan to contact the councils directly with the email given with questions?

A question for any current NMTs/previous candidates - has anyone been allocated more than 1x London interview before? Thanks

Yes, people have in the past. They did last year anyway. Only a few people get more then 1 interview though

Questions about what

Did anyone apply locally instead of nationally?

Hi! I applied locally for Liverpool instead of nationally as I don’t plan to move away - I got through to the interview stage, so i’m currently waiting to be contacted by them to arrange a date!

That’s really exciting well done! I wonder how many candidates got through to the final stage for local council’s compared to the national councils.

Thank you! Yeah I’m not sure how it works tbh, we went through the same process alongside national applicants eg assessment centre. Did you apply nationally or locally?