Video: Frontline Service
In our new short we zoom in on one of the central aspects of Year Here, frontline service, to give you a feel for the programme’s rationale. For four months, our Fellows serve in care homes, schools in...
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Meet the fellows
Before you meet the fellows, we’d like to tell you a bit about our plans for 2014. In December last year, we announced the next phase of Year Here’s growth: the development of a world-leading learning...
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Kickoff Bootcamp 2014
On 3rd March 2014, nine ambitious grads embarked on our nine-month postgraduate programme in social innovation. In partnership with IDEO, Institute for Government, Citizens UK and the Cabinet Office,...
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On Innocence: Stories of survival and hope
“Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of...
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The Brilliance of Boris, by a Labour supporter
This article was written by Michael Simpson and originally published in the Huffington Post. Boris Johnson has yet again donned a hard hat and a high-vis jacket for a photo opportunity. Yet again, he’s...
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Stories from the frontline
“When someone tells me a thing that happened, what do I feel inside? I want to get the story out. It’s for the person who reads it to have the feeling. In most cases the person I encounter is not a...
View ArticleSolving problems that matter
‘We don’t bat an eyelid when a 21-year-old starts a company that gets acquired for a billion dollars, but shouldn’t the brightest minds of our generation be doing something more purposeful than...
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Writing for Social Change
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and...
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The Strangers Feast in the East
This article was written by Katie Slee. Imagine going for dinner with a total stranger. There’s a delicious three-course meal. There are candles. There’s even a pianist. It could almost be a blind date...
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Beer Here at the Camden Collective
By George Hammond The Fellows took over creative co-working space Camden Collective on 20th May for a night of revelry and stimulating social change chat. Beer Here, run in partnership with CELIA...
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From the horses’ mouths
In this series we have asked our Fellows to give an open account of their experiences on the programme. Both our 2014 cohort and their predecessors discuss their personal highlights, recalling both...
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Trading Up at Queen’s Crescent Market
By Rich Grahame It’s a tough time for young people to find employment at the moment, especially if you’re homeless. I ran a project at Centrepoint which aimed to empower homeless young people, to find...
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The Golden List goes live
If you’re a grad who’s ambitious about making society better, it can be tricky to know where to start. That’s why we brought together The Golden List, some of the most interesting and ambitious options...
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Year Here 2014: The Highlights
1. When it all kicked off Back in March we launched our second programme with a cohort that included designers, dramatists and development grads. MEET THE FELLOWS 2. When we realised the power of the...
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Katie Slee closes the 2014 programme
This time 2 and a half years ago, I’d just graduated from university. I read Art History at Oxford. My personal statement decreed, and I suppose my sustained opinion throughout university was, that...
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Our first 2015 cohort: Meet the Fellows
Since launching at 10 Downing Street in 2013, we’ve recruited 21 recent graduates who are seriously ambitious about driving social change. They became our first Fellows, serving in homeless shelters,...
View ArticleCrowdbacking Dynamite Ideas For Good
By Michael Simpson I’m sitting two rows from the front of a packed O2 Think Big Hub in Hoxton. There’s popcorn, frivolity and a bunch of startup social projects getting set to pitch for support from a...
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The vicious cycle at the heart of homeless Britain
Settle’s story is rooted in my frontline experiences of working with homeless young people. As part of the Year Here programme, I completed a 5 month placement at Centrepoint – a leading youth...
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From Teenage Modelling to Feminist Fashion
Just over a year ago my job was to stand behind a till in a shop the size of a bedroom for 55 hours a week. I was employed by American Apparel to sell dog hoodies and Y fronts for the minimum wage....
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Arboreal Oxygen Masks: Taking breath in the woods
Our short time on the Year Here programme is turbo-charged. We complete a frontline placement, develop our own social enterprises and take up countless opportunities for personal development. I’ve...
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