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We need you! Nominate your Changemakers for our 2020 list

Changemakers: Unlocking the potential of young offenders
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Changemakers: Unlocking the potential of young offenders

Changemakers: Dining that leaves no trace
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Changemakers: Dining that leaves no trace

Changemakers: The woman who created the healthiest bank around
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Changemakers: The woman who created the healthiest bank around

Changemakers: How two friends are powering up refugee camps
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Changemakers: How two friends are powering up refugee camps

Changemakers: How Greg Owen powered England's fight against HIV
Greg Owen illustration by Matthew Brazier
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Changemakers: How Greg Owen powered England's fight against HIV

Big Issue Changemaker ready to get Brighton talking with Table Talk Week
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Big Issue Changemaker ready to get Brighton talking with Table Talk Week

Changemakers: Jen Ang is making sure homeless migrants know their rights
Jennifer Ang Changemaker
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Changemakers: Jen Ang is making sure homeless migrants know their rights

Changemakers: Yasmin Ibison is giving kids their own culture club
Matthew Brazier Changemaker Yasmin Ibison 1375
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Changemakers: Yasmin Ibison is giving kids their own culture club

Changemakers: Katie Alcott is springing into action over water
Katie Alcott Changemaker
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Changemakers: Katie Alcott is springing into action over water

Changemakers: Unpacking the answer to book poverty
Dee-Dee Crosher Changemaker
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Changemakers: Unpacking the answer to book poverty

Changemakers: Helen Costa is using VR to help adopted children feel safe
Helen Costa
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Changemakers: Helen Costa is using VR to help adopted children feel safe

Changemakers: How Sue Epps is turning the tables on loneliness
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Changemakers: How Sue Epps is turning the tables on loneliness

The Glasgow graduates who can replace palm oil with coffee
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The Glasgow graduates who can replace palm oil with coffee

Changemakers: social enterprise pioneer offers a green light out of poverty
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Changemakers: social enterprise pioneer offers a green light out of poverty

Changemakers: using the internet to bring language alive for Palestinian kids
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Changemakers: using the internet to bring language alive for Palestinian kids

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Susan Aktemel, founder of the UK's first social enterprise letting agency
Susan Aktemel Changemaker Lyndon Hayes
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Susan Aktemel, founder of the UK's first social enterprise letting agency

Changemakers: The brothers using flip flops to help disadvantaged children
Gandys London
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Changemakers: The brothers using flip flops to help disadvantaged children

Changemakers: The cancer survivor helping unwell young people keep learning
Joshua Pelled
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Changemakers: The cancer survivor helping unwell young people keep learning

Changemakers: The punks who are smashing exploitation
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Changemakers: The punks who are smashing exploitation