Year Here is a Postgraduate Course in Social Innovation based in London. The course is a platform for entrepreneurial young professionals to build smart solutions to entrenched social problems. It’s immersive, action-oriented and grounded in experience. You’ll learn from, and design with, people at the frontline of inequality – in care homes, hostels and youth services across London. Our Fellows try their hand at building creative, scalable responses to social problems, supported by industry mentoring and a rigorous social innovation curriculum. Our Fellows have collectively volunteered 90,000 hours in frontline services – including homeless shelters, community centres and Pupil Referral Units. We’ve also launched 20 ventures like Settle, supporting vulnerable young people who are moving into their first home, Chatterbox, a language tuition service staffed by refugees, and Birdsong, a fashion brand selling clothes handcrafted by women’s groups – from elderly knitters to migrant seamstresses – with a ‘no sweatshops, no photoshop’ ethos.
Collectively they have reached over 4000 beneficiaries, generated more than £2m in revenue and received national coverage in The Guardian, Huffington Post, Independent, Daily Mail, Financial Times, Vice and BBC News. Our alumni have received 4 Shackleton awards, a Forbes 30 Under 30, Social Enterprise of The Year and a WeWork Creators award, among many others. Year Here was launched at Number 10 Downing Street in March 2013 and, since then, has run nine programmes for 146 people and been named one of Britain’s 50 New Radicals by Nesta and The Observer. Our Faculty includes social entrepreneurs, policy makers and innovation experts – from Sophie Howarth, co-founder of School Of Life, to multi award-winning social designer Lauren Currie OBE and the poet Lemn Sissay MBE. Our Fellows come from all sorts of backgrounds and industries. With an average of 4 years’ career experience, they bring an incredibly diverse set of professional skills and life experiences to the programme. What unites them is their brilliant personal qualities – like resourcefulness, humility and resilience – and their passion for social action.
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