Year Here is a family of innovators, activists and entrepreneurs of whose projects and ventures were born out of the Year Here Fellowship, which ran from 2012 to 2022. Over ten years, Year Here unleashed a gentle tidal wave of social innovation through its Fellowship, which challenged entrepreneurial people to spend a year testing and building smart solutions to entrenched social problems. Year Here recruited 278 Fellows into 16 cohorts and collectively launched over 40 new social ventures. 

Fellows came from a kaleidoscope of backgrounds and were united by their drive to tackle society’s toughest problems. They learnt from the people hit hardest by inequality in care homes, hostels and youth services across London. Then, with the support of our faculty, they built creative and robust solutions and emerged as award-winning social leaders and entrepreneurs. They launched ventures confronting issues from refugee marginalisation to climate injustice.

Year Here is now a community of social entrepreneurs tackling Britain’s toughest social problems.