The event aims to bring Haringey residents together, writes Kinga Plata

A charity will organise a free football event for Haringey residents to watch, enjoy and network with players.

Zero Gravity in collaboration with the Graduate Guide podcast will organise a football match between local students and the charity’s team at Haringey Borough Football Club in White Hart Lane, on Saturday 20th July, from 1.30pm-4.30pm.

Local residents are welcome to come and cheer for one of the teams as well as to meet and network with the players from both teams.

The event aims at bringing the Haringey residents together and showing them how they can get involved in “supercharging social mobility across the UK” as well as give them an opportunity to tune in and listen to some success stories of locals who defied the odds and achieved their educational or career goals.

Zero Gravity is a free tech platform and a registered charity that believes “ a student’s talent should be defined by their potential, not their postcode”. It supports talented students from low-income backgrounds in their educational and career paths by providing bursaries and assisting them to achieve relevant work experience.

To date, Zero Gravity has supported more than 120 Haringey students from low-income backgrounds into top universities.

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