Case Studies

EducationExtra campaigned for, and promoted, the importance of extended schooling.

Purpose: to provide homeless people with a means to generate income. The Big Issue is a street newspaper that homeless people purchase at 40 – 50 per cent off the cover price and then sell at profit to the public.

Purpose: to tackle young people’s depression with apeer-to-peer approach.

Purpose: to give voice to citizen journalists through a media-based social innovation that uses web technology.

Tower Hamlets Summer University 

Teach First 

The action program Digital Pioneers is meant for innovative grass-root Internet initiatives. This fund gives financial and organisational support to small-scale grass root content communities who realise innovative social projects in the public domain on the Internet.

Divine is the Fairtrade Chocolate Company co-owned by the cocoa farmers cooperative Kuapa Kokoo in Ghana, who not only receive a fair price for their cocoa but also share in the company's profit.

Michael had finished University and decided that he wanted to go on a gap year before moving into full-time employment. After meeting Ivan Wise from World Wide Volunteering at a Gap Year Show, Michael decided that a volunteer project was the right way to go, and he is very glad he made this decision ...

Maslaha is a new project helping to create a greater understanding of Islam in a safe environment, allowing you to question and learn with an open mind.