By Fay Pretty | PeaceJam UK Coordinator
With the support of our GlobalGiving donors, 2025-2026 marked the first full academic year of delivery for our ‘Be the Change’ project since we launched. Over the year, approximately 915 students across seven different schools engaged in our Project. As a result of the Project, participants have been empowered with the resources and skills to know that change is possible. Service learning plays a key role, with youth-led social action projects having taken place across the UK, addressing a wide variety of community issues, from supporting local homeless charities to educating their peers and preventing knife crime.
Furthermore, due to your support, we have been able to start the new academic year with increased engagement, by bringing ‘Be the Change!’ to Ackworth School in West Yorkshire. Since June, PeaceJam UK has been working with the school staff to ensure peace education is not just as an extra-curricular topic, but as a central pillar of education. Over the 21st to the 25th September, Ackworth School hosted a Peace Week where PeaceJam ran ‘Be the Change’ Workshops with all the students from Year 3 to Year 11. On the final day PeaceJam supported a Peace Festival that utilised the PeaceJam Slam structure and resources, with Sixth Form students trained as peer-to-peer mentors to support social action project development. PeaceJam will be continuing to work with Ackworth across the academic year, supporting social action project development and the long-term goal of integrated peace education and opportunities for students.
Feedback from student participants:
"It was interesting and engaging; they listened and it was fun"
"Big thanks for this - it changed my mind"
We are so excited to share our full 2025-2026 Impact Report with you that covers our ‘Be the Change!’ Project as well as all of the other important work we do, made possible by the support of our community. Thank you for empowering the next generation of changemakers. You can find our report attached below.
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