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Ashoka UK & Ireland Search Hamburger MENU Close About Ashoka Worldwide Ashoka in the UK & Ireland Contact What We Do The Ashoka Fellowship Our Initiatives Our Impact Our Diversity Equity and Inclusion Initiative Stories Our Community Fellows Ashoka Changemaker Schools Ashoka Support Network Partners Network Search Events Get Involved Search Location & Language Settings EN Select Country Andean Region Arab World Austria Bangladesh Belgium Brazil Canada Chile Czechia & Slovakia East Africa France Germany Greece Hungary India Indonesia Israel Italy Japan Malaysia & Singapore Mexico Netherlands Nordic Region Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Sahel (Senegal) South Korea Southern Africa Southern Cone Spain Switzerland Thailand Turkey UK & Ireland United States Western Africa We Live In a Changemaker World Ashoka builds and cultivates a community of change leaders who see that the world now requires everyone to be a changemaker. Together, we are transforming the new inequality facing societies worldwide into a world where everyone can co-lead solutions for the common good. About Ashoka Worldwide About Ashoka UK & Ireland Ashoka’s Hello Europe Initiative Launches Refugee Fund Millions of people have fled from Ukraine. Mostly women and children in search for safety. Ashoka’s global migration initiative, Hello Europe since 2015, has created a network and series of tools that have enabled us to continually adapt to respond to emergencies - just like this one. Donate Now How Ashoka Fellows Accelerate an Everyone a Changemaker™ World Every three years, Ashoka presents its global study of how systems-changing social entrepreneurs are driving lasting social change. In our latest edition we quantified how Ashoka Fellows shift mindsets, change policies, and activate others as changemakers. Read More Download Report The Case For Changemaker Education 71% of UK parents want education to enable their children to become changemakers. 80% of teachers want the same. Ashoka UK & Ireland is building a movement of leading social entrepreneurs, partners, civic leaders, communities and schools to celebrate changemaking by and for the good of all. Read More How Highly Resourced Individuals Can Support Systems Change This year, Ashoka and McKinsey & Company joined forces with Echoing Green, Generation Pledge, and Catalyst 2030, to explore how powerful forces of change and highly resourced individuals (HRIs) can work together towards systemic change. Learn More We Live In a Changemaker World Ashoka’s Hello Europe Initiative Launches Refugee Fund How Ashoka Fellows Accelerate an Everyone a Changemaker™... The Case For Changemaker Education How Highly Resourced Individuals Can Support Systems Change Increasing life readiness for young people in Greater Manchester 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... Refugees In Europe: How To Help In A Systemic Way? Many of us are wondering with urgency what can we do to help. One of our concerns is also what is the most strategic way I can help to support long term, systemic change. This question about long... Ashoka Rated One of the Top Five Most Impactful Social Good Organizations NGO Advisor puts Ashoka at #5 in its annual list of the world’s top 200 citizen sector organizations Ashoka’s Priorities and Theory of Change Ashoka focuses on four strategic priorities to help people understand and adapt to a world of accelerating change, where everyone is called on to be a leader: Social Entrepreneurship Ashoka selects world-class social entrepreneurs who are leading the way to an everyone-a-changemaker world. Learn more Empathy & Young Changemaking Ashoka is leading a movement to transform how young people grow up so they thrive in today’s rapidly changing world where everyone must be a changemaker. Changemaking starts with empathy. Learn more Organizing for Changemaking Living and working in our changemaker world requires breaking through silos, tearing down walls, and organizing in fluid, open, teams of teams. Learn more Load More Read our One Community report Ashoka envisions a world where everyone is powerful – where every individual, business and institution can embrace their agency, has the skills to solve problems, and contributes to change in positive ways. To that end, we have set out to mobilise our network – of leading social entrepreneurs, young changemakers, leaders in education, philanthropists and businesses – into a movement united by the goal of accelerating systems change. In our latest report, you will learn about Ashoka Fellows who have become our partners, young changemakers turned colleagues, individuals and businesses that have become leaders of change, and so much more – a truly fluid network that demonstrates the power of collaborative entrepreneurship in continuously evolving ways. Read more Explore our Community of Changemakers Our changemaker community consists of 4,000+ Fellows, 250+ change institutions, 100+ Young Changemakers, and 300+ partners across more than 95 countries. Together, we form a strong, diverse and vibrant ecosystem of change agents collaborating and co-leading to positively transform societies and cultures around the world. Learn more about our changemaker community Ashoka Fellows Our Partners How can the UK embrace a culture of changemaking? These are a collection of stories and examples of how changemakers are shaping the new way forward in the UK & Ireland. Learn more about Ashoka’s work in the UK and how you can get involved. How a young Changemaker organised one of Manchester’s largest climate actions to date 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... Read more Ashoka and UK city leaders discuss recipes for education renewal at recent FED Summit 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... Read more The Case For Changemaker Education 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... Read more Recommend a Changemaker Ashoka recognizes that it cannot possibly source the world’s leading changemakers on its own. Good nominators ensure that Ashoka receives a constant flow of promising candidates as well as an invaluable perspective on the current innovation in the sector. Nominate an Ashoka Fellow Nominate a Young Changemaker Contact Ashoka UK & Ireland First Floor, 65 Gresham Street London EC2V 7NQ United Kingdom [email protected] Facebook Twitter About Ashoka Office Locations Worldwide Learn More News Career Opportunities Press Resources Annual Reports Organizational Accountability FAQ Stay Connected You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form. We’d love to stay in touch! Sign up below to receive updates on Ashoka’s work. 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