The RSA supports Future Foundations to catalyse a new generation of social leaders

Future Foundations are excited to announce The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) have selected a project led by Jonathan Harper FRSA, CEO of Future Foundations for their Scaling Catalyst Grant with the aim to catalyse a new generation of social leaders.

The RSA’s support will enable Future Foundations Society CIC to scale up our GSL Society programme to enable schools to participate who would not otherwise be able to do so, and offer a social action programme that is student led, with training provided to teachers so that they can support their students to flourish as leaders of themselves and society.

GSL Society uses the following methods to create a new generation who are socially conscious and fulfill their potential: Social action, a society model, competition, inspiring training, e-mentoring and partnerships.  The model is based upon overwhelming research on how to develop character and each aspect has already been tried, tested and evaluated by Future Foundations.

GSL Society is supported by organisations at the forefront of social change, including:  Wellington Leadership Institute, Wellington College, The Diana Award, Unltd, Enactus UK, Ashoka UK, The Aldridge Foundation and United Learning Trust.

The RSA believes that everyone should have the power to turn their ideas into reality. Their Catalyst Program was set up to do exactly what its name suggests: to catalyse new ideas into scalable projects.  They selected our project because they believe it has the potential to achieve measurable world impact, and offer a new solution to how to embed social action within our schools.

We are inviting RSA Fellows to attend our events as guest speakers, to mentor a GSL Society either online or in-person and are keen to explore further ways in which we involve the RSA Fellowship.