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Initiatives of Change

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We have mobilised and empowered people to create personal change leading to global change for over 80 years.

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We believe that we can change the world one step at a time. Making small changes in our own lives means that we can make big changes together.

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Who we are

Initiatives of Change is a movement dedicated to remaking the world. We are a faith-based charity that works inclusively with people of all faiths and none.

We inspire, equip and connect people to take their first step in creating a just, equal, and sustainable society.

We work with individuals, groups and organisations to promote trust, ethical leadership and sustainable living. Through our initiatives, campaigns and a network of volunteers we fight to build stronger communities, a just, peaceful and equal society, a sustainable planet, and an ethical global economy one step at a time.

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We broker the difficult and uncomfortable conversations that matter

We accompany leaders who shape our world for the better

We support people to take their first step in creating a just, equal, and sustainable society

We believe honesty, unselfishness, love and purity of heart will help change the world

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19th November 2021

Brunel University students take part in a new challenge to run intergenerational dialogue training in Hackney

18th November 2021

Hackney Peace Art Exhibition: an exciting art exhibition in collaboration with Hackney Council

Initiatives

Peace Begins at Home

The ‘Peace Begins at Home’ Intergenerational Dialogue training workshops were developed in 2010 by the Somali Initiative for Dialogue and Democracy (SIDD) in partnership with IofC UK. SIDD is a Somali community organisation dedicated to reconciling Somalis among themselves and with the host community. The training was born out of…

Business & Economy

We are an international community of business leaders, entrepreneurs, strategic thinkers, consultants and researchers with a longstanding history in engaging and working with businesses and governments around the world. Since the 1950s, IofC has been involved with the business sector in the UK as well as having decades of dialogues…

Migrants and Refugees as Re-Builders

Welcome to the 'Migrants and Refugees as Re-Builders' initiative. This was a three-year Erasmus+ project to improve the training of migrants and refugees through adult education. Migrants and Refugees as Re-Builders (KA2 Cross-borders Intercultural and Societal Entrepreneurs) was a partnership of organisations from the UK, Turkey, Sweden, and Spain who…

School for Changemakers

School for Changemakers or SfCM, has been IofC-UK’s flagship leadership programme for young people. In 2020, it commemorated its 10th Anniversary. SfCM is partly skills based, partly reflective, partly discursive, partly inter-cultural, heavily convivial, inspirational, focused on sound principles of youth work and always rooted in the spiritual experience of…

Agenda for Reconciliation

Agenda for Reconciliation (AfR) started as series of international conferences on peacemaking at IofC’s centre in Switzerland in the early 1990s. They were coordinated by IofC UK, and when the series ended, the coordinators continued their weekly meetings. In 2005, a particular focus began to emerge when leaders of the…

Creators of Peace

Creators of Peace transforms, empowers and engages women in peace creation. “The Peace Circle has helped me realise that rather than my life reacting to events and people, I can take responsibility for the direction it is meant to take. In that process I can also include others who want…

The Sustainable Communities Programme

The Communities Programme was initiated in 2012 as the result of a strategic planning process in IofC after the London riot in 2011. Its intention was to address the moral and spiritual challenges facing communities and taking action to develop and mobilise communities to tackle critical issues.

Refugees as Re-Builders™

The Refugees as Re-Builders™ (RRB) is an active programme for settled diaspora refugees’ leaders and professionals originating in war torn regions of the world. The programme’s three focus areas are: Training courses that are specifically created to engage perspectives of refugees essential in rebuilding their home countries – if/when…

Changemaker Stories

19th November 2021

Your network is your ‘net worth’

In 2019, Param Singh, who is part of our School for Changemakers alumni, was awarded an MBE for his outstanding business contributions. He tells Emma Brown and Gemma Perkins about…

9th November 2021

Education doesn’t just happen through the education system

Gemma Perkins has been volunteering with Initiatives of Change UK since the age of 21. She was part of the second cohort of the School for Changemakers Programme and she…

9th November 2021

Find what you love and never let it go

Growing up, David Buxton always aspired to be a doctor but whilst completing his biomedical science degree at Manchester University he started spending his spare time participating in community-led volunteering…

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Our Book Club

25th January - 29th March 2022

The IofC UK Book Club is for anyone and everyone, inside and outside the organisation. The more readers, the merrier in our eyes... Starting from Tuesday 25th January, we will be holding a bi-monthly session via Zoom at 4:30pm – 5:30pm GMT. Our first book we will be reading together…