Founding Partners


[www.youthnet.org.uk]

YouthNet is the UK’s first exclusively online charity. They guide and support young people, enabling them to make educated life choices, participate in society and achieve their ambitions. This is done through two websites: TheSite.org, a guide to life for 16-25 year olds; and do-it.org.uk, home of the UK’s only national volunteering database.


[www.unltd.org.uk]

UnLtd Ventures provides consultancy support to social entrepreneurs, helping them to scale up or replicate their projects. They provide support and structures that help them to grow a local initiative into a robust and sustainable project. UnLtd Ventures is providing the follow-on support programme for our winners and runners up.

[www.civa.org.uk]

CIVA (Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action) develops national and international programmes to promote and support young people’s community involvement. They encourage the sharing and dissemination of quality information which can be used to create new ideas and new approaches that can make a real impact in addressing social and community problems.
www.civa.org.uk

Supported by


[www.rsa.org.uk]

The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce) works to remove the barriers to social progress. The drive ideas, innovation and social change through an ambitious programme of projects, events and lectures. Their work is supported by 26,000 Fellows, an international network of influencers and innovators from every field and background.


[www.beaconfellowship.org.uk]

The Beacon Fellowship was established to help to change the climate of giving in the UK; to encourage everyone, not just a few, to take personal responsibility for charity in the UK and to contribute. The way Beacon works is to uncover and recognise extraordinary achievements in the world of charity. While those who receive a Beacon Prize may feel deeply honoured for this recognition, it is what happens afterwards that really matters. It is the publicity generated by telling the stories of their extraordinary efforts that creates wider awareness, and makes the rest of us understand just how much is possible.

[www.ChicagoGSB.edu/execmba]

The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business is one of the world’s largest and oldest business schools.  Founded in 1898, it offers full-time and part-time MBA programmes as well as a Ph.D. programme, open enrolment executive education and bespoke corporate education.  In addition to its facilities in Chicago the school operates campuses in London and Singapore – where it runs its top-ranked, part-time MBA for executives.

[www.ncvys.org.uk]

NCVYS is the independent voice of the voluntary youth sector in England. A diverse network of over 170 national voluntary youth organisations and regional and local youth networks, NCVYS has been working since 1936 to support voluntary and community organisations that work with young people.
NCVYS co-ordinates, through its members, 500,000 paid and voluntary workers who provide direct support to approximately five million young people.

[www.star-network.org.uk]

STAR is a unique organisation giving university students and young people the opportunity to: learn about and raise awareness of refugee issues in innovative ways, support refugees in a practical way in their local communities through volunteering and campaign with and for the rights of refugees everywhere The STAR network is made up of university based student groups, young people involved in the STAR Youth Network and Friends of STAR (individuals and organisations who support the work of STAR).

Working with

[www.whitbread.co.uk]

Whitbread PLC is the UK's leading hospitality company, managing market leading businesses in the budget hotels and restaurant
sectors, including Premier Inn, Brewers Fayre, Beefeater and Costa Coffee.

Whitbread's success is due to the skill and professionalism of its 35,000 people who serve around 8.5 million customers each
month at more than 1,400 outlets across the UK. Whitbread's strategy is to create value for our shareholders by focusing
investment and growth in expanding sectors of the hospitality industry.

The company has a long history of working with its community partners and has started, joined, funded or supported a huge
range of leading and award-winning programmes.

[www.wearev.com]

v is an independent charity set up to champion youth volunteering in England. Its mission is to inspire a new generation of young people aged 16-25 to volunteer. To do this, v is implementing the recommendations of the Russell Commission. v is led by the cares, interests, passions and beliefs of young people, led by an Advisory Board of young people, v20, who play a fundamental role in guiding the work of the charity.