About Us  

Changemakers are young people who lead positive change in their world.  The Changemakers Foundation exists to discover, inspire, develop and connect these Changemakers. We also clear their path in the world by changing the culture of organisations and the direction of policy.  We’re creating a world in which young people have the confidence to lead and everyone understands we need them to.

Changemakers was founded in 1994 by a coalition of educationalists and NGOs and was an early champion of young people leading their own social action and change. Over the past sixteen years more than 50,000 young people have become Changemakers and hundreds of organisations have adopted our youth led philosophy and approach.

Changemakers has offices in London (our head office), Newcastle and Birmingham.

We work with young people in every part of England, although we have yet to expand our remit to the other nations of the UK. However, we work in many other parts of the world including, over the past few years, Australia, Bangladesh, Columbia, Lithuania and Romania.

We have 32 employed staff. We also work with a number of freelance consultants and sub contractors who provide specialist input and additional capacity across the whole spectrum of our activity.

We are governed by a Board of Trustees, currently numbering 10. Our trustees are a mixture of functional experts (for example in HR, finance and law) and practitioners with experience of the work we do. Two of our current trustees are graduates of Changemakers programmes.

Our turnover for 2007-08 was approximately £1.2m and is forecast at £1.8m for 2008-09. Our work reaches around 10,000 young people and 200 organisations each year.

Changemakers is a registered charity (1086178) and a company limited by guarantee (4143956). We operate as a social enterprise, incorporating the best of the voluntary and private sectors.