Educating for a Thriving World
Changemakers amplifies your degree so you're ready to make a true difference in the world. With leadership, insight, self-awareness, understanding of complexity, & powerful mindsets & skills.
You're getting an amazing degree at Cambridge. So, what will do you with it? How will you make difference in the world? How will you help others and systems around you thrive? How will YOU thrive?
Changemakers is built on the idea that while a Cambridge degree can be brilliantly formative, there are skills, mindsets and attributes it doesn’t always cover:
- deep awareness of yourself and the impact of your perspectives on how you act and achieve
- methods for influencing & inspiring how things get done in the world
- the complexities of power, culture and politics, and the density of challenges including climate change and profound inequalities.
So, Changemakers develops your awareness of your SELF, your gritty real world skills to be effective in SOCIETY, and your practical ability for making positive impact in the WORLD. It particularly acknowledges the diversity of students’ backgrounds, aptitudes and interests, and designs opportunities with this in mind.
The programme sits alongside your degree - you can do as little or as much as you wish - and is part of Homerton's longterm commitment to progressive, intelligent education combined with practical graft: the tools for creating a more just, more sustainable and inclusive world.
Read the Homerton Changemakers Impact Report 2018-2024
Changemakers from launch Sep 2019 - May 2024
Student attendances ...for an hour or more | Hours taught by guest faculty & Changemakers team | Supporters, mentors & guest faculty across disciplines and sectors | Hours gifted by supporters, mentors & guest faculty | Events Residentials, workshops, seminars, mentoring schemes, a catalyst fund | Student-led start-ups supported with funds, mentoring, skills, and introductions | Objects Reports, essays, prompts for thinking, lectures, workshop designs |
3700 | 30000 | 210 | 6000 | 260 | 21 | 185 |
Changemakers is Cambridge... Plus.
It's unique to Homerton, it's free, and open to all Homertonians.
What does Changemakers offer you?
Listen to what inspirational people say about Changemakers.
Testimonials
"The world has come undone and I would like to change it every day. Change does not come at once, it is a wave, building before it breaks. I support Changemakers because I am part of that wave committed to a present moment rooted in satisfaction for all"
Changemakers has introduced me to a community of wonderful and inspiring people. Each Changemaker event I have attended has left me feeling energised and excited to tackle the big challenges our world is facing today. Having the right values, tools, attitude and people on my side has emboldened me to champion radical positive change.
"Homerton Changemakers is a brilliant and necessary invitation for us to raise our game as humans. To explore how to draw new maps for a world with a future.”
“Above all, I feel empowered by the opportunity that Changemakers have given me to deeply connect and exchange ideas with like-minded people of all ages and backgrounds - and a powerful reminder that it is up to our generation, each and every one of us, to make this world a better place to live in.”
"Homerton Changemakers helped me realise how much push for change there currently is - the programme creates a supportive environment to channel it into proper changemaking."
"Making change by dissenting from old orthodoxies is Homerton’s DNA. At Homerton I learned how to be an agent of change rather than a passive bystander. That’s why I support Changemakers."
