Shifting roles is a core part of systems change. Ashoka Fellow Francesca Fedeli and FightTheStroke.org are transforming rehabilitation for cerebral palsy by shifting who drives care, where therapy happens, and how knowledge spreads. By combining neuroscience, digital tools, and community networks, they're distributing the efforts for recovery. Ashoka's Globalizer program has worked with Francesca and hundreds of Ashoka Fellows to design these strategies. Full systems change story in our latest case study: https://lnkd.in/dkNinu3B
Ashoka UK & Ireland
Civic and Social Organizations
London, England 1,846 followers
the home of changemakers
About us
Ashoka’s vision is to build a world where Everyone is a Changemaker™. A world where we can equip more and more individuals with the skills and motivation to solve social and environmental problems. This vision comes from Ashoka’s experience in pioneering the field of social entrepreneurship – and through finding, selecting, and supporting the world’s leading social innovators, or Ashoka Fellows. Ashoka UK & Ireland is a subsidiary of Ashoka, a non-profit organisation headquartered in the US.
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- social entrepreneurship, social change, changemaking, system change, framework change, and empathy
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When did you last drink from an Irish river? For most of us, this idea doesn't even cross our minds. For Ashoka Fellow Li An Phoa, Drinkable Rivers, it's the driving motivation behind her organization, Drinkable Rivers. Featured in The Irish Times, Li An has built a movement that is now active in 25 countries, with citizen scientists monitoring water quality from the Meuse to the Danube to the Thames. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/d22hNcQe
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"Before systems change, hearts must connect.” In this beautiful piece, Ashoka Fellow Agamemnon Otero MBE reflects on what it means to hold community as living infrastructure. From a three-day gathering on the Scottish coast to an evening of reconnection in the heart of London at The Energy Garden, he writes about the invisible foundations beneath social change: trust, vulnerability, friendship, meals shared, stories exchanged, and the spaces that allow changemakers to breathe together again. It’s also a reminder that movements are sustained not only by bold ideas, but by the ecosystems of care around them. A powerful reflection on what it means to nurture the roots of changemaking, across generations.
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Across the UK and globally, conversations around access, equity, and public systems are getting sharper, and yet one question keeps surfacing: what happens in that in-between space, where social support has been designed, but hasn’t yet found its way into people’s lives? In India alone, an estimated $150 billion is spent each year on social protections, yet a significant portion goes unclaimed. Not because the need isn’t there, but because access is fragmented and often out of reach. On April 29th, we’re hosting a 30-minute virtual chat with Ashoka Fellow, and the recent awardee for the Skoll Foundation's Award for Social Innovation: Tarun Cherukuri, founder of Indus Action. He has been working at exactly this intersection, using technology and grassroots mobilisation to close this gap, with a bold goal of enabling 30 million vulnerable citizens to sustainably access social protection by 2030. We’d love for you to join us.
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We are really excited to be partnering with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), alongside Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation and Impact Hub London, to launch the BCG UK Social Enterprise Award 2026. At its heart, this program is about finding and backing the social enterprises across the UK that are already reshaping systems, whether that’s in health, education, or social mobility, and giving them the platform and support to go further, faster. The winning organisation won’t just receive recognition, they’ll work alongside a BCG team on an intensive ~8-week strategy engagement designed to unlock their next stage of growth and impact. Applications close on May 11.
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450,000 children lifted out of poverty. Nearly 500,000 people mobilised in a single weekend. 100+ repair cafés and MPs gathered in Parliament. Our Fellows are driving change at every level, from national policy to neighbourhood infrastructure. Here are just a few field notes from across the Ashoka network.
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Feeling overwhelmed by instability and violence spreading across the globe? Or dissatisfied at the inaction of institutional leadership? Here's your dose of optimism drawing from the work of people across the Ashoka network continuing to drive progress on some of the most impactful innovative solutions. #Ashoka #EveryoneAChangemaker #PeopleAndPlanet #AshokaFellows
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We're proud to see two Ashoka Fellows receiving the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Innovation! 🏫 Grace Matlhape founded SmartStart South Africa to transform early childhood education by mobilizing unemployed women and men to become trained practitioners running affordable, quality preschools. 🏦 Tarun Cherukuri: created Indus Action to redesign how governments deliver benefits to ensure all citizens in India understand and access the support and funding they are eligible for. Congratulations also to ChildLife Foundation, another recipient of this year's Skoll Award for Social Innovation! These leading social innovators are a reflection of the importance of networks, of shifting systems rather than delivering services, and of understanding their roles not just as problem-solvers but as powerful changemaker activators. Congratulations!
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At our Fellows Induction evening at The Conduit, Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, reflected on a responsibility that has shifted to all of us: we are no longer just recipients of information, we are now participants in its creation and its spread. Over the last fifteen years, the institutions we once relied on to make sense of the world have given way to online spaces where anyone can contribute. How we form our understanding of the world in that environment, and what we do with that responsibility, is at the heart of Eliot's work.
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I can honestly say that the UK is home to some of the world's most amazing social enterprises. But to put that honesty to the test, let's play a quick round of "two truths and a lie" and see if you can spot my fib about UK social enterprises. Boston Consulting Group (BCG)'s Social Impact Practice is always looking for ways to create more positive impact in the UK, including elevating organisations by providing them with an even greater platform for success. That's why I'm sharing some really exciting news: the return of the BCG UK Social Enterprise Award in 2026, in partnership with Ashoka UK & Ireland, Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation, and Impact Hub London. Watch the video to find out more and for full details, visit: https://lnkd.in/eUHeEXrp I am really looking forward to seeing what this year’s award will bring! (Data taken from State of Social Enterprise 2023 Executive Summary, Social Enterprise UK) #BCGintheUK #SocialImpact #SocialEnterprise #Innovation