Anna Heslop

This month we welcomed the creative design company ‘Our Secret Lab’ as the official creative partners of The Change Foundation. We first met Our Secret Lab on the murky waters of the River Thames at our ‘Kayaking down the River Thames’ fundraising event in 2020. Armed only with GoPro’s and handheld mobile phone cameras, their team […]

Last year our charity worked in partnership with Penningtons Manches Cooper Law Firm (PMC) to develop our incredible ‘Cookbook For Change’. The cookbook is filled with 45 delicious recipes and each recipe has been provided by a young person from our programmes or a team member from across the PMC group or our charity. After

This month three graduates from our Street Elite and Street Elite Academy programmes joined our charity as coach mentors. The three graduates Olivia, Hamid and Jordan will be working alongside our experienced coach mentors to deliver our programmes whilst developing their own skills in communication, delivery and coaching. Employing former programme graduates as coach mentors

In 2015 a group of young people from our Generation STORM programme went the Houses of Parliament to deliver inspirational speeches on the importance of role model figures. That day, Tracy Lomouga got on stage and delivered a powerful spoken word performance that called for more female role models and mentors in UK communities. Six-years later,

Last week young people from our 12-Rounds programme experienced an interactive anti-knife crime workshop. 12-Rounds uses boxercise and boxing to educate children and young people in primary and secondary education about knife crime. Over the last year, our team have been working together with Imperial College London to develop the S.H.A.R.P project. The S.H.A.R.P project

Earlier this month we hosted a successful E-Sports tournament in Notting Hill. Having created the E-Sports programme in the first lockdown to connect young people suffering from mental health and social isolation, we have seen the programme generate incredible results. The Change Foundation Community Programmes Manager Ross shared: “The atmosphere when everyone plays together is electric, it’s