Wes Streeting is Chief Executive of the Helena Kennedy Foundation, a national educational charity that exists to support disadvantaged students from the further and adult education sectors to access higher education and the professions. The charity does this by providing bursaries, mentoring, skills training and work placements with the aim of replicating access to the money, networks and know how that others are able to take for granted.

In 2011, Wes agreed to act as deputy head of the Independent Taskforce on Student Finance Information, led by Martin Lewis of moneysavingexpert.com, to help inform students, parents and advisors on changes to student finance arrangements from 2012. He is also a member of the Widening Access and Participation Strategic Advisory Committee of the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

Wes previously served as National President of the National Union of Students, a full time position responsible for representing more than 7 million students in further and higher education across the UK.

Outside of the Foundation, Wes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an elected councillor in the London Borough of Redbridge, where he chairs the Children’s Services and Leisure Scrutiny committee and acts as Opposition Spokesperson on Children’s Services, Leisure and London 2012.