Dear Children / Young People 

We would like to invite you to take part in the first ever UK Design for Change project. Design for Change started in India three years ago and has seen young people all over India respond in the most exciting, creative and dynamic of ways.

To learn more about their projects, have a look at the 2009 entries.

If you watch the videos of the projects from India, you will see that they are projects that YOU design and carry out to make a positive difference in YOUR COMMUNITY.  So how do they work?  Well, there are five stages to any project as follows:

FEEL THE CHANGE

What would you most like to create or change in your community?
An idea that could touch or affect the lives of many
An idea that YOU can make happen 

IMAGINE THE CHANGE

Talk together about how you can create this change
Get others in your community involved
Plan how and when you will make this Act of Change happen 

DO THE CHANGE

Gather the resources that you will need
Go out and make it happen
Record what you do, the impact you have and how it makes you feel 

SHARE THE CHANGE

Celebrate your Act of Change with your community
Document YOUR STORY and how you have shared it
Upload your project and documentation to us at Design for Change 

SUSTAIN THE CHANGE

Reflect back on your Act of Change and what worked well
Do you feel the story has only just begun?
NOW what are you going to do next?!

Design for Change is open to children and young people in both primary and secondary schools.  School groups or classes can work individually or collectively and there may even be opportunities for you to work with other schools on a project.  The deadline for the Submission form and documentation of your project is Monday, 15th November 2010.  

Please note the projects should not be about raising money, but more about you taking action in your community.

Every school group or group of schools that submits a project will be recognised with a signed certificate.

We look forward to sharing your project successes and to meeting many of you in the near future.

Good Luck!