£5,000 award Change the World Fund
Our Change the World Fund has its first winner.
After the launch of our ground-breaking Change the World Fund earlier we have now announced the first ever winner, Katie Landsborough.
The initiative, aimed at supporting students in making a significant impact on societal issues, offered £5,000 grant alongside specialist mentorship, to empower students to affect real change on key issues across the globe. This could be through charitable endeavours or new business initiatives.
After being selected as the winner by a panel of industry experts, Katie Landsborough, who is 21 and currently an LPC LLM student at our Chester campus, intends to use the fund to educate young people and black, Asian and minority ethnic communities on social attitudes.
Titled ‘A Race for Justice’, Katie’s campaign will be made up of a series of workshops taking place within educational institutions and community centres around the UK, to help tackle the challenges members of the BAME community face.
The University originally pledged £5,000 in funding to the winning initiative but such was the quality of the entries we decided to donate an additional £3,000 to the runner up, Musa Nela.
Originally born and raised in Albania before being granted asylum to the UK in 2017, Musa is now in his third year of the LLB course with us and aims to become a barrister in the future.
After enduring a long and difficult process to gain asylum to the UK himself as a child, his proposed ‘Distress Signal’ campaign aims to give better support for unaccompanied young asylum seekers, through the means of lobbying for an allocated guardian to be provided for minors in these difficult situations.
Read Katie's blog
Updates A Race For Justice
Katie has received mentoring support from Rachel Wang and guidance from Jack Forley, ULaw Pro Bono Co-Ordinator & solicitor in registering "A Race For Justice" with the Charity Commission.
Updates A Race For Justice
We are pleased to announce that the Charity Commission conferred "A Race For Justice" with official CIO status on 9 March 2021.
Updates A Race For Justice
Katie is now looking for companies, law firms, schools and colleges to join the pilot testing for her workshops. If you would like to participate, or find out more, please visit the "A Race For Justice" LinkedIn page.
Meet our finalists Musa Nela
"I felt shocked, humbled and privileged to be selected as a finalist for the Change the World Fund. My grant will go towards the Youth-led Commission on Separated Children."
Meet our finalists Amber Turner
"We are passionate about change in this particular area because of personal experience and want to make a difference to the lives of people who may be going through similar things."
Meet our finalists Annabelle Rose
"I felt very privileged to be a finalist and I was excited that the project gave young people the opportunity to make their voices heard on important issues."
About the Fund
Each and every one of us has the power to change the world.
Making change comes in many forms. From Emmeline Pankhurst fighting for women’s suffrage, to businesses that have shaken up entire industries, or movements like Black Lives Matter that galvanised the whole world and made us all stand up for what is right.
We believe that where there is passion and ambition anything is achievable, and we will support our students with the ambition to make change. This is why we launched the first Change the World Fund.
The fund is a £5,000 investment for one of our student's to use towards their cause, whether it be a new business idea, a charitable cause or a social movement. What’s more, the winner will also receive dedicated mentorship from our leading faculty and industry experts, to help make their ideas a reality.
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