We are delighted to announce that in partnership with One Young World and supported by The Ellis Campbell Foundation, we are launching our all new Seed2030 Micro Grants!
Following the amazing One Young World Summit 2023 which took place in Belfast last month, Seed2030 will provide ten young leaders with grants worth up to £1,000 to test and develop their campaign or project ideas and start their own social enterprise.
Both One Young World and Unloc recognise that in order to incubate the next generation of young leaders, and widen access to changemaking, more needs to be done to provide funding and support to those young people with enormous potential but limited social capital.
Both organisations are committed to creating a better world and more opportunities for young people, by working together, we’re opening doors for disadvantaged young people in the region and helping them to activate their ambitions.
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The Seed2030 project will give 10 young people, aged 14 – 25, living in Northern Ireland, the opportunity to apply for £1000 to develop or test their community project idea or start up business that aims to advance on one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Alongside the funding, the 10 young people will gain the opportunity to take part in a 2 day, 1 night immersive leadership bootcamp in Belfast helping them to progress their own leadership skills and the progress of their project, campaign or venture.
Following the bootcamp, grantees are connected with a mentor from the One Young World ambassador community; these mentors will support the grantee for 6 months as they get their project off the ground. Furthermore, the young people will also receive ongoing support from Unloc to develop their project or business idea.
Seed2030 has also been shaped and championed by local young people from Northern Ireland, Aimee Clint from the Education Authority and Nicole Parkinson-Kelly, a previous member of the Northern Ireland Youth Forum.This expert local knowledge combined with the expertise of Unloc staff to develop young changemakers has created a project that will have enormous impact in Northern Ireland, both on the young people themselves and their local communities.
Our steering group, composed of members from the Unloc team, the One Young World Team, the Northern Ireland Education Authority and local young people will continue to ensure the project is having a positive impact.
Of the 10 young people, those aged 18+ will also get the chance to apply for a scholarship to the One Young World Summit 2024 in Montreal, with the four young people leading the most impactful Seed2030 projects supported to attend, continuing and extending the Belfast summit legacy.
Partnered with crucial resources, training and mentorship throughout, the Seed2030 funding grant will provide a stepping stone for young people in Northern Ireland to drive social change and emerge as leaders in their local communities.
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Unloc’s Managing Director Hayden Taylor said:
“I am beyond excited that the Seed2030 project is launching – putting micro grants, mentorship, training and support directly into the hands of talented young people in Northern Ireland with projects, campaigns and business ideas that will help advance one of the 17 Global Goals.
This project is particularly special as it brings together the expertise of Unloc and One Young World as champions of young changemakers with our steering group of young people from Northern Ireland who are helping shape the project’s direction. With the support of the Ellis Campbell Foundation, and the backing of our local partners at the NI Education Authority, we are building an exciting pipeline of opportunities developing young people as changemakers”
Ella Robertson McKay, Managing Director of One Young World said:
“Young World Summit in Belfast earlier this year, we are delighted to launch the Seed2030 project with Unloc to ensure young leaders across Northern Ireland have the tools to catalyse social change. It was clear from the Summit in Belfast that the next generation of young leaders in Northern Ireland have enormous potential and ambition to accelerate social change in their local communities, but more needs to be done to provide funding and support to turn this potential into reality, and we’re proud to play a role in doing this through Seed2030”.
Nicole Parkinson-Kelly, One Young World Ambassador & Previous Vice-Chair of the Northern Ireland Youth Forum said:
“I’m really excited to be a part of launching Seed2030 to give young people across NI the opportunity to make their innovative business ideas and community projects a reality. This really makes entrepreneurship more accessible, creating safe learning environments to take risks with meaningful support through mentorship to help young people prepare for their next steps after seed funding. Northern Ireland has lots of young talent and potential to invest in so I’m delighted that One Young World, a global organisation who supports changemakers, sees this and is creating opportunities for our leaders of tomorrow in partnership with Unloc.”
Katie Williamson, Unloc’s Programme Manager said:
“Seed2030 is such an exciting opportunity for the young people of Northern Ireland and I am delighted to be a part of it! The multi layers of support will enable young people to tap into their changemaker journey and drive social change on issues that they are passionate about.”
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About Unloc
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Unloc is a leading UK-based social enterprise, founded by One Young World Ambassadors, inspiring and supporting young people to become changemakers. Founded by award winning young leaders Hayden Taylor & Ben Dowling, we develop the leadership potential of young people from over 500 schools and colleges in the UK, and through our partnerships across Europe.
We have been bringing innovative education programmes to life for over 8 years; helping bring business closer to young talent whilst empowering young people, developing their leadership skills and building their opportunity pipeline.
Last year, Unloc’s programmes reached over 15,000 young people in-person, and countless thousands more through our pan-European partnerships.
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About One Young World
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One Young World is the global community for young leaders. Its mission is to create a fair, sustainable future for all, by developing young leaders who are taking action to solve the world’s big challenges. It builds young leaders’ expertise, elevates their profiles and inspires them to increase their impact.
One Young World offers an unrivalled platform to affect change at a global level. With a network of more than 13,700 Ambassadors, innovative initiatives led by the One Young World community have directly impacted 41.56 million people globally since 2010. For every $1 invested, One Young World Ambassadors deliver $16 of social value.
Its annual Summit brings together the brightest young leaders from every country and sector who are working to accelerate social impact across the globe. Delegates from 190+ countries are counselled by influential political, business and humanitarian leaders such as President Mary Robinson, Dr Jane Goodall, and Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, amongst many other global figures.
To date, Summits have taken place in Belfast (2023), London (2010), Zurich (2011), Pittsburgh (2012), Johannesburg (2013), Dublin (2014), Bangkok (2015), Ottawa (2016), Bogota (2017), The Hague (2018), London (2019), Munich (2021), Manchester (2022) and Belfast (2023). The next Summit will take place in Montréal in 2024.
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About the Ellis Campbell Foundation
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The Ellis Campbell Foundation, a charity based in Hampshire, was established in 1990 by Michael Campbell, representing the fourth generation of the family’s property investment office, the Ellis Campbell Group. Since that time the Foundation has supported a diverse range of organisations in Hampshire, Perthshire and London with grants totalling over £3.7m.
The Foundation has supported many wonderful organisations in Hampshire over the years and continues to support Treloar School through a sports fund, and Alton College through engineering scholarships. Most of the Hampshire grants are now run through the Doris Campbell Memorial Fund managed by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Foundation.
Following a strategic review, the Foundation is now focussed on building Youth Power and Leadership with some fantastic partners in the UK and is proud to be supporting many transformational projects.
Portsmouth: A Young Changemakers City is Unloc’s exciting new project funded by the Ellis Campbell Foundation. This innovative new programme seeks to better embed democracy and democratic practices within schools, and inspire and empower young people to become changemakers in their own right.
The plan is to develop the project further and roll out the Young Changemaker Cities project to schools across the country in the future. As the city where it all started for Unloc, Portsmouth is the location for our launch of the project, and provides an exciting new innovation for Portsmouth schools and the young people that attend them.
The Project
The Young Changemaker Cities project has 4 key strands to it.
Firstly, we create a localised toolkit of resources which schools can use across tutorials and the curriculum. This bespoke toolkit is specifically designed for purpose, and has been co-produced with teachers and young people themselves.
Secondly, we host in-school Democracy Days – which allows our Unloc Facilitators to bring democracy to life with young people in an interactive, high-energised delivery style that’s both fun and rewarding. It takes the topic of democracy and makes it engaging and interesting in a way that appeals more to young minds.
Thirdly, we are delivering an incubation programme which is open access for young people who show a deeper interest in democracy. This engagement opens up channels of thought that they may not have accessed before, and allows us to empower them to become changemakers themselves.
Young people will get the chance to experience 4 weekend-long experiences which provides them with the chance to boost their democracy and leadership skills.
Finally, we provide ongoing support to schools to help better imbed democracy into the culture of the school.
This is an extremely exciting project that allows schools to really connect with their students around democracy and work together to ensure best practice is followed in the school.
Portsmouth: A Young Changemakers City launches
Recently, we delivered our first Changemaker Democracy Day at Admiral Lord Nelson School in Portsmouth. As part of the day, we had fifty enthusiastic students from all year groups who are keen to ensure democracy is a common theme within their school life.
They had the chance to explore what makes a ‘changemaker’ and what they would do to make a difference both in their local community and beyond.
Each student got the chance to pitch to their peers about what they would do ‘If they were prime minister for the day’, and how they would rally support for their manifesto with a democratic fashion.
The students were also lucky enough to hear inspiring talks from Destiny Kennedy, the Member of Youth Parliament in Portsmouth, and Cllr Suzy Horton, Deputy Leader for Portsmouth City Council, and Cabinet Member for Children, Families and Education.
Finally, the students were also given a safe space to actively discuss democracy in their school, their experience of it and what they would like to see improved in their learning environment.
The day was a huge success and we heard some really inspiring ideas from young people about how they would like to make positive differences in their local communities.
Admiral Lord Nelson School students commented:
’I have gained the knowledge of how I can make change today ‘
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‘We have gained the knowledge to be motivational and self-confident’
Unloc Facilitator Steve Baker commented:
“The Portsmouth: A Young Changemaker Cities project is important to enhance the pupil voice across the area. Giving young people the practical skills and knowledge they need to make the change they wish to see in their schools, as well as in the wider communities in which they live”
Fellow Unloc Facilitator Clair Martin added:
“The Young Changemakers Cities project is an essential tool to spark creative thinking and doing to help bring about social change. The project gives young people the confidence to ask for change and to feel confident change will happen.”
The initial launch of the Young Changemaker Cities project in Portsmouth will allow our team to develop the programme even further, refining and developing it with young people themselves so that it benefits young people across the UK in the future.
To find out more about the Ellis Campbell Foundation and the fantastic work they do simply click here.
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