When I was about 10, my primary school teacher asked my Mum if I'd be interested to going to our local University on Saturday mornings for additional Maths less

When I was about 10, my primary school teacher asked my Mum if I'd be interested to going to our local University on Saturday mornings for additional Maths lessons. It was all funded by the local government at the time, and they had some teachers who basically ran through parts of higher level mathematics in a 'fun' way - did things like work through International Maths Olympiad problems, things that were tangential to the syllabus a few years ahead of where we were but would reach. I went to this til I was 16. For me, who came from a background where I knew nobody who went to University, it was a really enriching experience. It lead to me becoming a physicist. I met other people who were similarly good at Maths where there just weren't those people at my school. It kept me interested in the subject when I found it very dull at school, because it was so easy. Unfortunately the programme got cut. They tried running it as a private tutoring type service but that made a focus on sticking to the syllabus, and eventually it closed. Was a real shame. There were probably a couple of hundred students across a city with a population of ~700k in the urban area.