Where to advertise free admissions tutoring?

[mg2024]

Hello all,

I saw a similar thread to this for paid tutoring that had some helpful answers, so I was hoping to find some help here. I'm an undergraduate student at Cambridge who has started a free Oxbridge admissions tutoring project, to gain some experience in the sector and hopefully help out some students (I'm particularly looking to help disadvantaged students). I am fully DBS checked. The Facebook tutoring groups I've joined seem overrun with AI, and I haven't had any luck with LinkedIn either. I'm not sure how to find students, as most tutoring websites are for paid tutoring. Could somebody please offer some advice?

Sounds good but I don't think you're going to make direct contact with the students in the ways you've been trying.

Find out from the Cambridge and Oxford Access and Outreach teams which schools they have been visiting to try to boost widening-participation applications from underrepresented groups. Write to the Heads of Sixth Forms there asking them to give your details to any students who seem like they might be in with a chance meeting the criteria of those you want to help

The kids you're trying to reach, as well as their parents, often have no idea where to start looking. But it's really rewarding to help them along this path. A former colleague who'd never been to university and nor had any of her family asked me for advice for oxbridge entry as her child was doing well at school and on track for top grades. I met with them a few times giving advice and a mock interview so I take personal pride in the fact that they got into one of the best colleges, got a first class degree and then a doctorate and are now having a stellar career. But neither my colleague nor her child would have seen or responded to online posts. Meanwhile there would be plenty of sharp-elbowed and privileged people willing to snap up the opportunity for free support.