Girls aspiring to careers in property, architecture and engineering found a wealth of information at their fingertips at this DH Links Cluster Group. The careers and networking event for this sector was held at Savills Global Headquarters in London, which provided the perfect platform to explore options for girls with A level or university choices ahead of them.

About fifty alumnae, parents and current girls spent the evening exchanging information about university pathways, careers, work experience and contacts to make this one of the most well attended cluster groups so far.

Upper Fifth pupil Nutthapit found the experience extremely valuable, commenting “I think that it was really useful for me personally because I now know more about what 'engineering' is and it gave me an insight into what jobs these engineers actually do in the real world. This event got me excited for university because by hearing from all these people I know that I will be doing what I actually love and enjoy and engineering is the right path for me.”

Current parent Mr Jonathan Hewlett, Head of London Residential at Savills, who hosted the evening, commented, “It was great to see so many current Downe House girls keen to learn more about the property industry, all of whom networked the room and approached the alumnae and the current and former parents in the industry to ask their questions. Property is a great industry and one that certainly should have more female professionals so I hope that we see more girls from Downe choosing this profession. All in all a great evening.”