Stories From The UK & Ireland

This global innovation challenge is open to changemakers with solutions that are inspiring others to take action, those that are activating others and creating a role for everyone to contribute as problem-solvers.

The new Fellows join a global network of social entrepreneurs – the first and largest of its kind in the world. Learn more about their systems-changing innovations.

As we embark on our ambitious vision of building Greater Manchester as the first changemaker region in the UK, we are excited to announce our partnership with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA). GMCA works closely with the ten Local Authorities in Greater Manchester, and with local...

Why co-leadership with social entrepreneurs, young changemakers, and organisations big and small lies at the heart of Ashoka’s mission to build an Everyone a Changemaker – or EACH – world. As Ashoka UK & Ireland launches its search for the office’s next Co-Director , current Co-Director Nikki...

Ashoka UK & Ireland is working on a new partnership with the Chanel Social commitment team in London. The six-month pilot follows a successful collaboration between Ashoka France and Chanel in Paris, in which Chanel employees heard from Ashoka Fellows, who shared their personal experience of...

In February 2019, teenager Charlotte Lastoweckyi joined her first protest against climate change. Just months later, she helped to organise one of Manchester’s largest climate actions to date – the September 20th Climate Strike in city centre. Three to four thousand young people and adults joined to...

Ashoka and The INKEY List are kicking off a digital campaign to introduce changemaking to young people around the world

Ashoka and HSBC are collaborating on the first-of-its-kind Green Skills Innovation Challenge . This global innovation competition is open to social entrepreneurs in selected markets with ventures that equip individuals and communities with the skills needed to thrive in the transition to a green...

City leaders from across England discussed place-based strategies for education renewal at the Foundation for Education Development (FED) national summit held last month. The focus of Day 2 - How Can Long Term Place Based Strategies Strengthen Our Communities? – was planned in partnership between...

The COVID-19 pandemic is leaving a deep socio-economic impact on young people. Nevertheless, young people are among the most active responders : not only as frontline health workers, but as researchers, activists, communicators and innovators lifting up their communities. Despite their contributions...

Ashoka UK and Co-Leaders from Greater Manchester launch ground-breaking collaboration for change.

For anyone who feels like their voice doesn’t matter in the public square, Liv Clark has a story to share. The 18-year-old’s choice to speak up in her hometown of Manchester, England resulted in thousands of young people across the city now enjoying free public bus rides. It was during the 2017...

Building an Everyone a Changemaker world means we both embrace our changemaking potential and enable those in our homes, schools, workplaces, and communities to do the same. This level of engagement is essential to ensure that shared challenges in a rapidly changing world — some of them existential...

As a group of UK Ashoka Changemaker Schools we spent this Summer reflecting on emerging practice that is meeting this need; and also on who we need to ‘be’ and ‘become’ as Changemaker Educators in order to lead this practice in our own schools and beyond.  This is a deliberately diverse network that...

Ashoka UK & Ireland is partnering with the Edge Foundation to embed changemaking behaviours across the education system so that the young people of today are more equipped than ever to thrive in an ever-changing world. Lord Jim Knight, former UK Minister of State for Schools and Chief Education...

How COVID-19 can prompt corporations to re-think their role in society

A New Narrative for Challenging Times Countries across Europe have started to turn the corner on COVID-19. But the pandemic’s effects will be felt long after lockdowns have ended. Our understanding of ‘normal’ has been shaken. Many of us feel exposed and vulnerable — economically, socially...