A Year with Ashoka UK 2018 by Ashoka

A YEAR WITH ASHOKA UK 2018

ASHOKA IS A NETWORK ADDRESSING THE WORLDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MOST PRESSING PROBLEMS BY CONVENING AND SUPPORTING GROUPS OF CHANGEMAKERS. WE IDENTIFY AND ACCELERATE SOCIAL INNOVATION, WHETHER IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP, EDUCATION OR BUSINESS. WORKING ACROSS SECTORS WE ARE BUILDING A WORLD WHERE EVERYONE IS EQUIPPED AND EMPOWERED TO CREATE THEIR OWN CHANGE.

CONTENTS FOREWORD 2018: A YEAR IN REVIEW UPDATE FROM OUR FELLOWS GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP SURVEY EUROPEAN NEWS PARTNERSHIPS PRO BONO SUPPORT ABOUT ASHOKA MAPPING THE GLOBAL NETWORK MEET THE UK FELLOWS

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FOREWORD Dear friend, At the start of a new year it is tempting to look only towards the future, excited about what is to come. While I’m most certainly excited about all that 2019 has in store for Ashoka and our community, I take huge pleasure in looking back at 2018 and revisiting all that we – Fellows, ASN, partners and the Ashoka team - achieved and learned together. One of my biggest lessons from 2018 was that there is power in collaboration - together we are much more than the sum of our parts. We believe Ashoka’s most important role lies here: as conveners of a multitude of different actors, with different approaches and different skills. To be meaningful and sustainable, change needs to come from more than one source. Which is easier to say than to do! This year we’re in the process of launching a brand-new type of project with the RSA, and alongside multiple other stakeholders including Digitalme, Rothschild & Co and Openreach, to develop the concept of a ‘City of Learning and Changemaking’. Our first City of Learning and Changemaking will focus on the Greater Manchester region, building on the RSA and Digitalme’s existing Cities of Learning programme. We aim to engage many more organisations and individuals working with young people in the region, creating shared objectives and shared infrastructure to facilitate and create better outcomes for young people. But this is just the start! Of course, Ashoka is perhaps best known for identifying and supporting the UK’s most remarkable social entrepreneurs – the Ashoka Fellows. Our goal remains to support them in their mission to drive and scale their social impact, and inspire and empower others to do the same. In 2018 we conducted two separate pieces of research, a global survey (which you can read about on page 11) and a UK study to build out our qualitative understanding of the Fellowship. Both of these will be guiding us in 2019 and beyond as to how we can continuously improve our work and our impact. I am excited to be able to announce that we will be going on that journey hand in hand with Ashoka Ireland. In 2018, these two branches of Ashoka merged to form one legal entity, and will be finding ways to work together as a unified community, while also maintaining the unique cultures of our two countries. The community of Fellows, ASN and partners in Ireland is inspiring, strong and committed, and the UK team and the Irish team are so excited about exploring our collective identity and finding ways to create solutions together.

Turning to 2019, we have so much to look forward to as we continue to seek new ways to support our Fellows in scaling their impact, as well as working with our wider community to drive collective impact in society. Building on the success of our partnerships in 2018 we’re lucky to partner with some of the world’s best-known corporations this year to craft initiatives on a range of important issues. In particular, we’re excited to be working with HSBC to deliver a systems change accelerator for Fellows working on climate change around the world. We will also continue our successful partnership with UBS’ Global Visionaries programme, supporting social innovators to think through their impact strategies. And so I come back to collective impact. The way that Ashoka can make the most impact is by harnessing our global scale and our relationships across sectors to bring people together so that they can move mountains and change the world for the better. The issues the world faces will be best solved by a broad societal movement where many organisations are coming at a problem in different ways, but in the same direction. If we have many actors, with many approaches and many assets, working towards one goal, that becomes a movement and it is movements that create lasting change. I hope you’ll join us!

Pip Wheaton UK Director

Please contact us at infouk@ashoka.org - we’d be delighted to hear from you.

2018: A YEAR IN REVIEW OUR NEWEST FELLOWS With our Fellows playing such a crucial role in our strategy to create an Everyone a Changemaker world, it’s critical that we continue to search for, identify and elect the country’s leading social entrepreneurs. Like many organisations, we are very eager that our community reflects that of the wider UK. We have therefore consciously implemented a strategy to diversify our Fellowship, whilst never compromising our strict selection criteria, and are delighted that our five remarkable new Fellows reflect that effort.

Andrew Bastawrous | Peek Vision Andrew’s organisation, Peek Vision, reduces preventable blindness across the world by increasing the capacity and efficiency of public health eye care systems. By developing and integrating technological tools that can be used by non-medical professionals to screen, diagnose and connect patients to treatment at scale, Andrew improves and accelerates diagnosis and treatment in developing countries where public systems chronically under-deliver. Andrew has a two-pronged approach: first, aligning the systemic incentives to leverage existing resources and build local capacity, and second, developing low cost, accessible and easy-to-use smartphone technology to improve screening and diagnostic processes. Andrew and his team have developed two primary technologies: one that helps to screen and identify individuals with sight impairment and another that views and captures retinal images on a smartphone. Andrew embeds this technology within communities using schools, local health centres and local partners and NGOs to act as distribution partners. Crucially, the Peek Vision hardware and software are usable by nonmedical professionals, to relieve pressure from inundated local screening systems. Emphasising that “it’s unethical to screen without providing treatment”, Andrew also sets up healthcare institutions to successfully deliver on the demand that the technology makes visible. Andrew is thus not only pushing the cusp of technology in last mile eye health, but is redesigning the logistical system of delivering screening, diagnosis, and data capture that makes the case for greater intervention.

Carlene Firmin | Contextual Safeguarding Network During adolescence, the risk of abuse that young people face often shifts from a familial context to public/school/peer environments. Currently, child protection systems are better equipped to address cases of abuse and violence within the home and family context. Carlene is pursuing a radical transformation in how policymakers, institutions, practitioners and the general public think about child protection by introducing a model of ‘Contextual Safeguarding’ which diversifies the focus of assessment and intervention from solely targeting the individual affected by abuse and seeks to address the conditions in which the abuse occurred. Carlene extends the legal child protection framework outside the familial setting and build partnerships between child protection services and services that affect youth outside families, including transport providers, schools and retail managers, to operationalise this model. More importantly, she is measuring outcomes by a change in the social spaces where young people have experienced abuse, rather than changes in the behaviours displayed by any one individual who may have been abused. Her model is transforming how partner networks work together and ultimately intervene against and prevent the abuse of young people at different stages.

Pam Warhurst | Incredible Edible Pam has created a movement that uses food to stimulate community revitalisation in towns facing economic decline. She is giving citizens an avenue through which to reclaim public spaces, rethink resource use and build stronger and more resilient communities in some of the UK’s most economically deprived regions. A network of Incredible Edible groups in towns across Northern England and beyond turn unused public spaces into edible landscapes, “propaganda gardens” that provide edible plants free of charge, inviting any passer-by to help themselves to a fruit or vegetable or to simply enjoy their beauty and accessibility. The creation of the gardens is an initial small act that Pam uses to trigger a strategic set of effects: creating conversation about public spaces, changing the way people relate to each other and community institutions, stimulating local economic activity, and ultimately empowering people and communities to take charge of their own future.

Pam uses food because of its universal nature – “if you eat, you’re in” is Incredible Edible’s motto. Food serves as a connective device, engaging everyone in the community in taking small cumulative actions toward inclusive community development, resilience building, and economic regeneration. It also creates a conversation with community institutions such as schools, prisons, hospitals, care homes, police stations, businesses, and local authorities about using space to promote community values and creating public spaces in an open, collaborative, and participatory way. The movement starts with the physical transformation of towns but is designed to also transform people’s mindsets and the ethos and values of communities.

Sarah Corbett | Craftivist Collective Sarah founded the Craftivist Collective to transform the way people think about, engage with and, most importantly, do activism. She creates a kinder, more inclusive form of social action by moving communities towards more thoughtful changemaking. Activism tends to conjure up negative connotations: from angry, reactive picketing to disengaged ‘slacktivism’. Sarah believes it can be different. Her unique ‘Gentle Protest’ approach does not replace traditional activism but offers new tools to add to the activism toolkit. It is a methodology that supports people in slowing down to think critically and take the time to build strategic approaches for change. ‘Gentle Protest’ helps activists connect personally with their perceived ‘adversary’ by doing things for this person and helping him or her see themselves in a different light. This approach to changemaking is slow, mindful, inclusive, quiet, intimate, intriguing and as a result, more effective and strategic. Using the power of ‘making’ to engage thoughtfully with the issues we care about, Sarah’s form of craftivism has become one tool in what Sarah terms her ‘gentle protest’ toolkit. Recognising the power of her methodology, she intentionally developed a craftivist framework that was sector- and issue-agnostic. This means that her craftivist approach is applicable to any issue: from sustainable fashion to environmentalism or human rights.

“I THINK IT JUST COMES FROM A DEEP SENSE OF REALISING THAT WE’RE ALL PART OF THE SAME WORLD AND THAT WE ARE VERY MUCH CONNECTED. JUST BECAUSE I’VE BEEN FORTUNATE, IT DOESN’T GIVE ME THE RIGHT TO IGNORE ALL THOSE WHO HAVEN’T.”

Andrew Bastawrous

Vernon Ringland | YouthBank International Vernonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organisation, YouthBank International, allows young people to become team philanthropists for initiatives started by other young people, helping them to take on a decision-making role within their communities. The thrill and challenge of generating their own funding to address causes that matter to them encourages them to question prevailing attitudes to power, money and risk. YouthBank International is not just about giving out and managing grants: it is a personal development programme which builds young peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-esteem and confidence and provides them with an opportunity to learn new skills in leadership, team-work, decision-making, problemsolving, communication, empathy development, negotiation, reportwriting, presentation skills, event management and interview skills. In 2017, over 2,500 young people were involved in running their own local YouthBanks, supporting 450 youth-led projects in 24 countries. Vernon launched YouthBanks in Northern Ireland, but he quickly saw the potential of sharing his expertise with organisations in other parts of the world who were looking to combine philanthropy, social entrepreneurship and youth development in one initiative.

Peek Acuity is a smartphone-based eye test app, developed by eye experts, that allows anyone to measure visual acuity using only their smartphone. It is as accurate as a traditional letter chart eye test, but can be used by non-specialists in almost any location. Photo credit: Peek Vision

UPDATES FROM OUR FELLOWS Our Fellows are, almost by definition, continuously seeking new ways to solve issues in a systemic and sustainable way. That can be new solutions, new initiatives or even new roles and new organisations. We are constantly blown away by their creativity, innovation and dedication to creating a better world – below is some of their new work.

Alexander McLean, founder of African Prisons Project, opened the first Legal Aid Clinic in Uganda where prisoners trained as paralegals advise those around them, reducing sentences and gaining releases. Andrew Bastawrous, founder of Peek Vision, co-launched the $1bn Vision Catalyst Fund as a multi-stakeholder initiative to expand universal eye health services led by governments around the world. Annys Darkwa, founder of Vision Housing, successfully merged the organisation into the Forward Trust and set up The Rhondda Hub for Veterans in Wales to support those transitioning back to civilian life. Charlie Howard, founder of MAC-UK, set up the Owls incubator to co-launch projects with partners on listening, finding and supporting solutions coming from communities themselves. Chris Underhill, founder of BasicNeeds, co-launched citiesRISE as a global platform to transform the state of mental health policy and practice in cities and beyond, and set up a mentoring practice. Fredrik Galtung, founder of Integrity Action, started TrueFootprint to empower the communities receiving development support to collect data and to take ownership of solutions themselves. James Thornton, founder of Client Earth, released his book Client Earth about the organisation’s journey, winning the Judges’ Choice Award at the Business Book Awards 2018.

Kelly Davies, founder of Vi-Ability, established the Goodwash Company to promote Welsh wash products from natural ingredients: 100% of the profits fund selected social projects. Ken Banks, founder of Kiwanja, joined the fast-growing digital identity start-up and B Corp Yoti as Head of Social Impact to enable the technologyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full potential for social impact. Lily Lapenna, founder of MyBnk, created the Block For Impact sector platform to bring social impact to blockchain and blockchain to social impact, and set up a mentoring practice. Mark Swift, founder of Wellbeing Enterprises, launched the Happy Place app, a free community asset mapping technology that includes self-help gamification to support wellbeing and patient activation. Mel Young, founder of the Homeless World Cup, commenced The New Ism podcast and event series to provide a platform for new ideas on an economic system that is fit for a modern, inclusive world. Mike Sani, founder of Bite The Ballot, launched the Verto app: a fun, gamified survey for political engagement and opinion insight as well as for impact evaluation and campaigns. Nick Sireau, founder of findacure, started Orchard to develop better treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) with partners in academia, industry, patients/families, and advocates. Paul Sinton-Hewitt, founder of parkrun, launched the inclusive sportswear brand CONTRA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ethically produced in top quality fabrics and all sizes without gender-specific colours or shaming advertising. Parkrun also launched in prisons across the UK, providing physical activity and volunteering opportunities for inmates. Rufus Pollock, founder of Open Knowledge International, released his new book The Open Revolution: rewriting the rules of the information age to reimagine ownership in a digital age.

Ruth Ibegbuna, founder of Reclaim, started the Roots Programme to bring together people with hugely different lives and build understanding around their differences and, importantly, their similarities. Sanderson Jones, founder of Sunday Assembly, launched Retreat to the Future, a weekend retreat with a festival atmosphere which offers personal development and support in figuring out what really matters in life. Shauneen Lambe, founder of Just for Kids Law, created three animated guides for using the law as a tool for social change. Check out the featured videos on the Just for Kids Law YouTube channel. Tom Ravenscroft, founder of Enabling Enterprise, published the book The Missing Piece: The Essential Skills that Education Forgot and the Skills Builder Framework and Partnership to promote these skills. Tristram Stuart, founder of Feedback and Toast, developed a new investment vehicle called Equity for Good with CEO Rob Wilson, to ensure investor gains stay in the social business economy.

International Fellows with a base in the UK: Christian de Boisredon, founder of Sparknews, initiated the Positive Social Innovation Club in major cities to regularly convene corporate leaders with social innovators to create synergies for impact. Karen Spencer, founder of Whole Child International, launched the Protection and Quality of Care for Children Project in El Salvador with the government and USAID â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a $7.4m investment over five years.

The Homeless World Cup, Mexico 2018. Photo credit: Daniel Lipinski Ashoka Fellow Mel Young uses football to engage homeless people into programmes that empower them to change their own lives.

GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP SURVEY UNDERSTANDING THE ASHOKA FELLOWSHIP AND ITS IMPACT ACROSS THE WORLD At Ashoka we have a somewhat unique position: through our work with the Ashoka Fellows we benefit from a unique ‘birds-eye’ view of solutions to the world’s problems. Increasingly we are working to identify patterns across fields and geographies. With this in mind, and a desire to understand the impact of both our Fellows and Ashoka as an organisation, we carried out a Global Fellows Survey in 2018. The survey brought to light a huge array of insights – many more than we can share within the confines of these pages. We have showcased some of them below but if you would like to discover more – for example, on Fellows’ collaboration habits and how collaboration is key to systems change, or trends emerging from Fellows’ work around migration and refugees – you can read articles written by Ashoka colleagues in a special edition of the Social Innovations Journal: https://socialinnovationsjournal.org/editions/ issue-52 With more than 850 Ashoka Fellows from 74 countries taking part in this lengthy survey, and with work spanning decades, we believe that this is the most diverse data set of social entrepreneurs in the world. We will therefore endeavour to keep it open-source and share the data with others outside our organisation.

KEY FINDINGS THE DATA SET REPRESENTS A DIVERSE GROUP OF FELLOWS IN VARIOUS SECTORS AND GEOGRAPHIES Of the 858 Fellows in 74 countries who responded to the survey, 42% were women, 57% were men and 1% identified with another gender identity: this distribution is representative of the wider Ashoka Fellow network. Furthermore, our respondents focus on a wide variety of population groups including people living in poverty (55%), women (48%) and people with disabilities (25%). A range of business models were also represented: 32% of our Fellows reported that they do not receive any of their revenue from selling products or services, while 12% reported that they earn all their revenue in this manner.

ASHOKA FELLOWS GENERATE LASTING SYSTEMS CHANGE Ashoka’s view and understanding of systems change is emergent and context-dependent: our metrics have evolved since we carried out the first global Fellows survey in 1998, and now include independent replication, public policy change, market change, and shifting mindsets. 90% of Fellows who responded to our global survey reported having changed markets and/or public policy, while 97% reported that their strategy focuses on a mindset shift. As we have discussed elsewhere in this report, a great way of achieving systems change is to partner with other forward-thinking organisations in order to scale impact and accelerate change: 86% of Fellows reported partnering with other citizen-sector organisations, 72% with universities, and 61% with for-profit companies.

ASHOKA PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN HELPING FELLOWS TO INCREASE THEIR IMPACT Fellows reported in the study that Ashoka has had a substantial impact on their work – from validating their identity as a social entrepreneur and providing mission-critical financing in the early stages of their venture to offering access to a global network and strategic report. 92% said that our stipend helped them focus full-time on their idea. A very high percentage reported that Ashoka had an influence on their thinking (86%), how they practice leadership (94%), and – perhaps most importantly – that their strategy or behaviour had changed as a result (92%. 84% of the Fellows agreed that Ashoka had helped them to increase their impact.

WOMEN’S IMPACT An important insight that emerged from the Global Fellowship Survey was around the type of impact that female social entrepreneurs have. It became apparent that male Ashoka Fellows tend to scale their impact across more countries than women – men are active in an average of 6.8 countries, compared to 4 for women, and 43% have had their ideas replicated abroad, compared to 39% of women. However, more female Fellows saw their ideas replicated by other groups or institutions within their country of residence. Furthermore, interviews revealed that women are more likely to focus their work on changing societal mindsets and cultural norms, as well as working with and empowering young people. This suggests that we, as a sector, need to reframe how we define success: scaling ‘deep’ is just as important as scaling ‘broad’. The latter can drive deep and long-lasting impact on a community now and for future generations, creating permanent cultural and mindset shifts. We’re looking forward to exploring this issue more deeply over the course of 2019. 12

EUROPEAN NEWS A major focus for us in 2018 was working more closely with our colleagues across Europe, sharing knowledge, ideas and insights, and connecting changemakers from across the continent to amplify impact and inspire new social entrepreneurs.

BRINGING TOGETHER CHANGEMAKERS FROM ACROSS EUROPE In May, the Ashoka offices across Europe joined together to host the first European Changemaker Summit. We welcomed 250 attendees, including social entrepreneurs, the Ashoka Support Network, partners and colleagues from around the world. Caroline Casey, an Irish Ashoka Fellow who works towards a more inclusive world, and Verna Pausder, the founder and CEO of Fox&Sheep, provided inspiring keynote speeches, and the event continued with workshops facilitated by social entrepreneurs. These ranged from interest-based discussions, such as the environment and the future of work, to workshops on systemic change and impact orientation. The Summit was a wonderful opportunity to bring together changemakers from across Europe - and indeed the world - to be inspired, develop ideas and create new strategies for systems change. This event was made possible by funding and support from Google, Serviceplan, Accenture, Deloitte, BI and Correos. We look forward to creating more connections and developing more ideas at the next European Changemaker Summit, which is taking place in Barcelona in November 2019.

LAUNCHING THE EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME The European Fellowship Programme is a co-learning and co-creation community of Ashoka Fellows, partners, and supporters from across Europe. At the core, the programme builds on the essential learning elements of the Ashoka Fellowship and offers them in six core modules: Impact Orientation, System Change, Replication & Transfer, New Leadership, Wellbeing, and Community. The modules are delivered through a variety of formats including webinars, offline and online workshops, retreats, and peer-to-peer exchanges. In addition, the programme aims to provide a platform for continental collaboration to accelerate the field of social entrepreneurship in the region and to nurture a powerful European Changemaker Community. 13

“THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR A FANTASTIC, POSSIBLY LIFE-CHANGING WEEK. I FEEL LIGHTER, BIGGER AND STRONGER AND GOT SOME VERY GOOD QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT REGARDING THE FUTURE. BEST OF ALL, I LEFT BERLIN WITH A BUNCH OF NEW, AMAZING FRIENDS AND SUPPORT SYSTEM IN THIS FIELD OF WORLD IMPROVEMENT!”

PARTNERSHIPS PARTNERING WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS TO ACCELERATE FAR-REACHING AND LASTING CHANGE At Ashoka, our goal is to create a world where everyone is empowered to drive positive change, whether that is in their communities, nationally or internationally. Our vision, after all, is â&#x20AC;&#x153;everyone a changemakerâ&#x20AC;?. We work with forward-facing businesses and institutions to design innovative partnerships which help us to move towards a more sustainable model together, and accelerate changemaking both within and outside of our respective organisations. In 2018 we had the privilege to work with organisations that have purpose and innovation in their DNA, and our partnerships have delivered revealing insights and driven potential for extraordinary change.

BUILDING THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY OF THE FUTURE WITH EBAY Circular Futures is a leadership development programme created by Ashoka in conjunction with eBay and other partners to answer one key question: how can we transform the consumer goods industry to build economic, natural and social capital and be resilient, less wasteful and more restorative? We have selected 30 changemakers with a track record of circular innovation and change within the packaging, electronics and fashion sectors, and who possess the entrepreneurial spirit, passion and capacity to develop, launch and implement system-changing initiatives within these sectors. The interactive, practical learning experience launched in Amsterdam in September 2018 and comprises six modules over six months, including visioning and systems change, leadership and collaboration, innovation and intrapreneurship and storytelling. The focus is on exploring new approaches to leadership within the circular economy: the world urgently needs a new generation of leaders who understand how to weave individuals and networks into a coherent, powerful movement for real eco-systemic change. We explore the growth and business opportunities in the circular economy, ultimately creating a network of organisations leading and collaborating on the shift towards a circular economy.

DEMYSTIFYING SYSTEMS CHANGE WITH THE BIG LOTTERY FUND Whether they work in criminal justice, healthcare or climate change, at the heart of every social entrepreneur’s ambition is to fundamentally change the context within which they work. We see that the best models impact the largest possible number of people without the need to grow the organisations at the same pace as their impact. In our work with our Fellows, we have seen that they change systems through the power of their ideas. They build organisations around those ideas to help them flourish in and spread throughout the system they aim to change. We believe that this approach of spreading ideas and changing stakeholder behaviour rather than scaling organisations contains the building blocks for systems change. In order to share the knowledge on system change methodologies that we have gleaned from working with the UK’s leading and most innovative social entrepreneurs, we partnered with the Big Lottery Fund to hold a series of workshops for their staff and grantees as well as a series of videos and articles. These workshops were tailored for social entrepreneurs from across the UK to learn how to scale their impact using systems change methodologies, rather than traditional scaling methods. In a series of videos and articles, we heard from three of our UK Fellows – Michael Sani of Bite the Ballot, Karen Mattison of Timewise and Wellbeing Enterprises’ Mark Swift – about how they have established their organisations around a systems-change approach and what exactly that looks like within the context of the problem they are addressing. These videos were then used in a campaign to demystify systems change, helping anyone understand this topic by exploring practical, real life examples.

UPSKILLING CHANGEMAKERS WITH UBS UBS’ ‘Global Visionaries’ programme identifies and supports thought leaders and social entrepreneurs with innovative solutions to societal issues. Ashoka UK has partnered with UBS to provide advisory support on topics ranging from systems change to social finance, impact evaluation to scaling. To take the impact even wider, UBS supported Ashoka’s Mark Cheng to codify his work on social investment, creating an online toolkit which, in 2018, was published as a book (aptly named, the Social Investment Toolkit), which helps social entrepreneurs navigate this growing field.

SHARING FELLOWSHIP WISDOM WITH A MILLION REALITIES A Million Realities is a comprehensive two-year fellowship designed to support UKbased social entrepreneurs who are passionate about creating systemic change to become the social impact leaders of the future. Ashoka is delighted to have been able to provide advisory support for this new Fellowship, sharing our learnings from 37 years of supporting our own Fellows. The first cohort launches in 2019!

TRAINING EMPLOYEES WITH ROTHSCHILD & CO AND HOGAN LOVELLS There is increasing demand from workers that their employers demonstrate a higher purpose than just profit. According to a Deloitte study, 90% of millennials want to use their skills for good, while more than 50% would take a pay cut to find work that matches their values. Furthermore, 53% would work harder if they felt their organisation was making a difference. With this in mind, Ashoka has worked with two partners – Rothschild & Co and Hogan Lovells – to provide training for their employees about how to increase their social impact. If you would like to partner with Ashoka on a project that drives positive social impact, we would be delighted to talk to you – please contact: Nikki Gravning ngravning@ashoka.org

PRO BONO SUPPORT We are lucky enough to be supported by individuals and organisations who believe in our mission and who care about having a positive impact on the world. A huge thank you to the following for supporting us in a variety of ways on a pro bono basis: Freuds: brand identity and research Hogan Lovells: legal advice and event venues Latham Watkins: legal advice and meeting space Cristina Escallon: transformative facilitation

“ORGANISATIONS MUST SHIFT AWAY FROM REPETITIVE-FUNCTION HIERARCHIES WITH RULES AND ENFORCEMENT AND WALLS. INSTEAD, WE MUST MIGRATE RAPIDLY TO BECOMING A GLOBAL ‘TEAM OF TEAMS’ THAT COMES TOGETHER IN WHATEVER COMBINATION NECESSARY TO ADD THE GREATEST VALUE TO THE CHANGES UNDERWAY.” Bill Drayton

Ashoka Fellow Al Harris’s organisation Blue Ventures develops transformative approaches for catalysing and sustaining locally led marine conservation, in ways that benefit coastal people and economies.

ABOUT ASHOKA ACCELERATING AN ‘EVERYONE A CHANGEMAKER’ WORLD Ashoka is working towards a world where everyone is a changemaker. We see social problems growing in complexity worldwide and the pace of change accelerating. It is therefore essential for humanity to live and work differently so that everyone can participate in and drive change. People, businesses, organisations, communities and nations need to be thinking about making innovating for the good of all accessible to all, and creating ways for one another to lead change. We believe that only if everyone is a changemaker do we have a chance at ultimately outrunning the problems of this world and building fair societies that are truly built by and for everyone.

WHAT IS A CHANGEMAKER? We define a changemaker as someone who notices that the world is changing and sees themselves not as an object of change (a person that change happens to) but an agent of change: someone who takes action to solve problems and to make progress for the good of all. No matter the size or scope of the change they create. No matter status, wealth, title, authority or permission. The new world we have in mind is one where all people everywhere see and understand problems through empathy and are capable and confident to respond quickly, with creativity, resilience and teamwork.

WHAT WE DO TO SUPPORT THIS SHIFT At the core of our work is the world’s leading network of system changing social entrepreneurs who come together to form a lifelong community as part of the Ashoka Fellowship and address many of the most pressing global problems. They act as inspirational role models and show us how the future can be different now. By bringing our Fellows together with communities across sectors including business, education and more, we are helping spread and accelerate pathways towards a world in which everyone is equipped and inclined to be a changemaker.

SEARCHING FOR AND SELECTING NEW ASHOKA FELLOWS In the UK our current Fellowship is made up of 45 UK Fellows, with an additional 12 Fellows from around the world who are now located here as well. These social entrepreneurs are working across sectors as diverse as food security, child protection, new education and active citizenship. Each year in the UK we receive hundreds of nominations for candidates, which are reviewed by the search and selection team. At each stage in the process, candidates are assessed against our five core criteria:

NEW IDEA

ENTREPRENEURIAL QUALITY

Is the person possessed by a truly new ideaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a new solution or approach to a social problemâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for solving a public need?

Is the person so committed to his/her vision that it is impossible for him or her to rest until the vision becomes the new pattern across society?

SOCIAL IMPACT

ETHICAL FIBRE

Is the idea likely to solve an important social problem at the continental level or beyond?

Would you instinctively trust him/her? Is his/her motivation deeply and firmly rooted in a commitment to serve others?

CREATIVITY Can the person define the root problem, interpret the challenges, and take advantage of setbacks in a creative and resourceful way?

We have designed this rigorous selection process to ensure the Fellowship is made up of social entrepreneurs at the tipping point of achieving systemic change, bringing new and game-changing innovations into the Ashoka network. Ashoka elects Fellows across all subjects and has no quotas for specific topics. We elect whoever stands out in any field. This open and generalist approach allows Ashoka to see the trends and patterns that are shaping society and emerging social transformations. 20

BEING AN ASHOKA FELLOW Ashoka’s network exists to grow the impact of social entrepreneurs and get us closer to a world where everyone is a Changemaker. Once a social entrepreneur is elected in the Ashoka Fellowship, Ashoka provides a lifetime of support, personalised to the needs of the Fellow at different stages in their journey. This ranges from advisory support from a large range of business leaders and pro bono partners that covers topics ranging across strategy consulting to finance, from legal support to mentoring and coaching. The Fellowship opens up lifetime access to a global network of peers, experts and decisionmakers from all sectors who support growth into new regions and accelerate the Fellows’ impact on society. Ashoka Fellows highlight the following as the most significant benefits they get from the network: A NETWORK OF PEERS AROUND THE WORLD

NEW PARTNERSHIP AND COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITIES

STRATEGIC GUIDANCE

MENTORSHIP FOR PERSONAL AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

THANK YOU TO OUR FRIENDS, SUPPORTERS AND PARTNERS Our Ashoka Support Network members Cristina Escallon Rebecca Eastmond The Earl and Countess Spencer

JP Morgan Lankelly Chase Foundation Latham Watkins Lucille Foundation Newcastle University Packard Foundation Paul Hamlyn Foundation Perdurance Philanthropy Point People Rothschild & Co The RSA Social Enterprise UK Social Innovation Exchange Student Hubs Teach First TrustLaw Unbound Philanthropy UnLtd Year Here The Young Foundation

AlphaSights Bethnal Green Ventures Big Lottery Fund Business Launch Pad Clearly So Comic Relief Creative Leadership Consultants Egon Zehnder Founders Pledge Freuds The Funding Network Glasgow Caledonian University Global Cultural Districts Network IG Advisors ImpactReady 21

“THIS IS A WONDERFUL WORLD. THERE IS NO WAY THE PROBLEMS CAN CONTINUE TO OUTRUN THE SOLUTIONS WHEN EVERYONE IS A CHANGEMAKER.” Bill Drayton

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FELLOWSHIP: 3517 FELLOWS ELECTED IN 93 COUNTRIES CHANGEMAKER SCHOOLS: 260 SCHOOLS IN 28 COUNTRIES

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FELLOWS

MEET THE UK FELLOWS: * Indicates a Fellow elected in another country but currently based in the UK.

INCLUSION John Bird | The Big Issue | Elected in 2015 John has pioneered the idea of ‘a hand up rather than a hand out’ by empowering homeless people to earn a legitimate income by selling a high quality product. Jane Davis | The Reader | Elected in 2013 Redefining the role that reading aloud can play in improving mental health, community and wellbeing through bringing small groups together to read books and poems. Karen Mattison | Timewise Jobs | Elected in 2011 Changing the public perception of the status of part-time work by creating high quality part-time employment across all sectors and salary brackets. Faisel Rahman | Fair Finance | Elected in 2008 Easing access to financial services for the most disadvantaged by ensuring access to products and services fit for low-income individuals. Paul Sinton-Hewitt | parkrun | Elected in 2016 Breaking down barriers to physical activity while simultaneously encouraging community cohesion, parkrun empowers and equips volunteers to organise free weekly 5k runs in over 12 countries.

Mel Young | Homeless World Cup | Elected in 2014 Uses a global football competition to inspire homeless people to change their own lives and to transform how homeless people are viewed. Tamzin Ractliffe | Greater Good South African Trust | Elected in 2008* Building on SIE Fellow Celso Grecco’s model, Tamzin has created a web-based social investment exchange platform to connect high impact citizen sector organizations to investors.

Christie Peacock | Sidai Africa Ltd | Elected in 2011* Christie has established a national network of Livestock Service Centers managed by franchises that provide reliable access to affordable and highquality products and services for livestock farmers. Christian de Boisredon | Sparknews | Elected in 2014* Christian is incentivizing the first global community of leading editors-inchief to focus on solutions in the media, versus the traditional focus on failures and problems. Sanderson Jones | Sunday Assembly | Elected in 2017 Developing a new form of congregation by fostering community integration and personal wellbeing to harness the human need for inclusive local gatherings that are powered by communities and drive empathy. Pam Warhurst | Incredible Edible | Elected in 2018 Building more resilient communities in deprived areas using the language of food to lower barriers to community action. Sarah Corbett | Craftivist Collective | Elected in 2018 Transforming the way people think about, engage with, and most importantly do activism. Sarah helps people to redirect their influence and energy into social movements, getting them deeply engaged in issues and on topics that they can help to change.

YOUTH Kelly Davies | Vi-Ability | Elected in 2015 Engaging unemployed local youth to re-energise run-down sports clubs and turn them into sustainable community hubs. Ruth Ibegbuna | RECLAIM | Elected in 2014 Helping young people from working class backgrounds to lead the change they want to see in their local community and thereby working towards ending leadership inequality.

Michael Sani | Bite The Ballot | Elected in 2015 Bridging the gap between politics and youth by engaging young citizens through workshops and interactive educational games. 26

Lily Lapenna | MyBnk | Elected in 2010 Run by young people for young people, MyBnk delivers financial education whilst also running high-energy workshops on bank ethics and enterprise-building. Sharath Jeevan | STIR EDUCATION | Elected in 2014* Through local “teacher innovator networks”, Sharath launched an international movement of teacher changemakers who are innovating and influencing others to spread best practice in teaching. Karen Spencer | Whole Child International | Elected in 2015* Working in orphanages to educate caregivers and government officials in methodologies of care that put relationships and children’s development first. Muzvare Hazviperi Betty Makoni | Girl Child Network | Elected in 2007* Betty is building a new generation of strong, active women citizens by creating safe spaces for girls to grow and connect with each other. Tom Ravenscroft | Enabling Enterprise | Elected in 2017 Working with businesses, teachers, students and schools to create incentives and opportunities for the development of changemaker skills to be taught alongside literacy and numeracy. Carlene Firmin | Cotextual Safeguarding Network | Elected in 2018 Pursuing a radical transformation in how policymakers, institutions, practitioners and the general public think about child protection by introducing a model of ‘Contextual Safeguarding’ which looks holistically at the conditions in which abuse occurs. Vernon Ringland | YouthBank International | Elected in 2018 Developing a simple, flexible and transferable approach to promote young people as decision makers in their communities by allowing them to become team philanthropists for initiatives started by other young people.

TECHNOLOGY Ken Banks | Kiwanja / Means Of Exchange | Elected in 2011 Devoted to the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developed and developing world. Rufus Pollock | Open Knowledge | Elected in 2013 Enabling access to key information and providing the tools and training to teach the public how to turn that data into knowledge. Tom Steinberg | mySociety | Elected in 2009 Using the Internet to remove barriers to civic participation in politics and making democracy meaningful, accessible and effective in addressing citizens’ needs.

HUMAN RIGHTS James Bevan | Conflict Armament Research | Elected in 2014 Tracking the international trade routes of illicit weapons by collecting first-hand data on small arms and ammunition. Fredrik Galtung | Integrity Action | Elected in 2015 Integrity Action works to build institutions that promote openness and are responsive to their citizens’ needs. Esther Rantzen | ChildLine / The Silver Line | Elected in 2015 Pioneered the world’s first free and confidential 24/7 child helpline. Empowering children to voice abuse Esther has changed public debate as well as policy on child protection. Oren Yakobovich | Videre Est Credere | Elected in 2014 A global network equipping oppressed communities in hard-to-access areas with technology and training to effectively expose human rights violations.

Anil Patil | Carers Worldwide | Elected in 2015* Anil is drawing attention to the emotional, social and economic challenges that carers face in developing countries.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE Annys Darkwa | Vision Housing / Rhondda Hub for Veterans | Elected in 2011 Making Housing accessible for prisoners upon their release by building links with private sector landlords. Mark Johnson | User Voice / Cando Coffee | Elected in 2011 Giving offenders and service users a voice in the design of the criminal justice system to meaningfully impact the services affecting them. Shauneen Lambe | Just For Kids Law | Elected in 2012 Reframing the way in which the UK criminal justice system interacts with children by moving away from their stigmatisation towards positive intervention. Alexander McLean | African Prisons Project | Elected in 2014 Working to restore dignity and hope in prisons across Kenya and Uganda by giving prisoners and prison staff access to education, health and justice. Junior Smart | SOS Project | Elected in 2009 A tailor-made mentoring programme led by ex-offenders who work with prisoners both before and after their release in order to lower the reoffending rate. Vickie Wambura Wamonje | Nafisika Trust | Elected in 2013* Vickie is unlocking the potential of ex-prisoners and reducing their rate of recidivism by redefining the role of prisons as safe spaces for reformation.

HEALTH Mohammad Al-Ubaydli | Patients Know Best | Elected in 2012 Empowering patients to take control of their own medical records through an online platform enabling them to access and share the information. Simon Berry | ColaLife | Elected in 2015 Inspired by Coca Cola’s access to last mile markets, Simon catalysed the private market to play a role in healthcare, distributing lifesaving diarrhea treatments to hospitals as well as corner shops. Andrea Coleman | Riders for Health | Elected in 2014 Managing vehicles and providing training to build local capacity for highly skilled technicians to service vehicles that are used in the delivery of healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa. Charlie Howard | MAC-UK / TIM | Elected in 2013 Providing “Streetherapy” to young gang members by taking mental health work out of the clinic and onto the streets to make it accessible to excluded young people. Nick Sireau | SolarAid / Findacure | Elected in 2010 Having initially set up SolarAid providing solar lights to some of the most remote regions of the world, Nick is now raising awareness and driving research into curing fundamental diseases. Chris Underhill | BasicNeeds | Elected in 2012 Enabling people with mental illness in developing countries to live and work successfully by allowing them to earn a living after they have received community-based treatment. Mark Swift | Wellbeing Enterprises | Elected in 2017 Creating a social movement for health that mobilizes and empowers communities to take control over their own health and wellbeing, promoting non-clinical prescriptions within the community. Marc Koska | Safepoint Trust | Elected in 2017 Using technological innovation in health to save millions of lives, Marc created the world’s first auto-disable syringe now adopted in WHO policies and is currently spreading the use of a new syringe employing a blister technology that enables patients to self-medicate. 30

Andrew Bastawrous | Peek Vision | Elected in 2018 Transforming global eye care delivery systems by leveraging existing resourcing, building local capacities, and developing tools to increase efficiencies in screening, diagnosis, and ultimately treatment. Rita Melifonwu | Stroke Action Nigeria | Elected in 2017* Helping Nigerians to avoid stroke and cardiovascular diseases by arming the country with the resources and tools it needs to tackle the stroke burden and prevent future cases occurring.

ENVIRONMENT Alasdair Harris | Blue Ventures | Elected in 2008 Developing transformative approaches for sustaining locally run Marine Protected Areas (MPA) which benefit the economies of local communities. Patrick Holden | Sustainable Food Trust | Elected in 2016 Patrick is catalysing and creating methodologies that incentivize everyone â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from farmers to food retailers to be part of the solution towards sustainable food systems. Rob Hopkins | Transition Network | Elected in 2009 Aims to reduce CO2 emissions and dependence on oil by training and inspiring communities to take action to live in a more sustainable world. Tristram Stuart | Feedback | Elected in 2015 Campaigning at every level of the food system by engaging stakeholders in the value chain to change societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attitude towards wasting food. James Thornton | ClientEarth | Elected in 2013 Building a network of politically neutral legal experts who design and advocate for enforceable science-backed environmental policies whilst holding all major stakeholders to account.

We have also proudly elected: Camila Batmanghelidjh, Emma-Jane Cross, Phil Conway, Bob Paterson. 31

“ASHOKA HAS RECONFIRMED MY SELF-BELIEF IN MOMENTS OF ABSOLUTE SELF-DOUBT. IT’S A HUGE STRENGTH AND SUPPORT IN THOSE MOMENTS. ASHOKA HAS ALSO CONNECTED ME WITH AN INTERESTING NETWORK WHERE I CAN CONSTANTLY LEARN FROM OTHER CHANGEMAKERS ON SIMILAR JOURNEYS.” Paramita Banerjee, Indian Fellow