Empower Your Students to Shape a Sustainable Future with SEEd’s Transformative Sustainability Education Programme

Two young girls look at an open space technology board gathering concerns of youth around climate and sustainability at a student-led sustainability conference.

SEEd Young Changemakers explore their sustainability concerns to build an action plan. Credit: Bracknell Forest Council.

Turn Climate and Eco-Anxiety into Hope, Agency and Real-World Action

The future often feels overwhelming to young people today, but we firmly believe a better world is possible. As educators, you want to prepare your students for what lies ahead, but standard curricula often lack the interactive, real-world tools that students need to build true environmental agency.

SEEd’s Young Changemakers (YCM) is an evidence-based sustainability education programme designed to guide your students and school on a transformative journey. Fitting in with the Department for Education’s (DfE) Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy, YCM links young minds directly with local community organisations, authorities and businesses, empowering them to solve real student sustainability concerns, both in school and their local community.

Why Young Changemakers?

Traditional environmental education and climate education programmes teach students about the climate crisis. Young Changemakers invites them to imagine, design and lead the solutions.

By bringing people together to learn, develop and celebrate action-learning practice, we help schools weave sustainability directly into the heart of their culture and support their students to develop the green skills needed for work in the future sustainable economy.

Our proven, evidence-led framework gives teachers a structured, seamless way to facilitate social change right from their classroom, after-school club or lunchtime session – tailored to fit around, and into, school timetables.

Young Changemakers has had a demonstrable and powerful impact on a number of students and their teachers, best summed up by the student who reported that for them, this had been ‘an amazing journey’.

Dr Paul Vare, University of Gloucestershire - SEEd Young Changemakers Evaluation Report 2024-25,
Change does not happen through more knowledge. It happens in other ways – that’s the work SEEd Young Changemakers does.
Ann Finlayson, SEEd CEO and Young Changemakers Designer,

How does Young Changemakers Make an Impact?

A diagrammatic representation of the 5 pillars of Young Changemakers: Green Skills, Wellbeing, Agency, Co-Learning and Leading.
Diagrammatic representation of the circular cycle of Young Changemakers, outlining where modules fit and how the programme is cyclical, not linear.

Stories of Impact

Real stories are at the core of what we do. Here is how the Young Changemakers journey looks in practice:

The Student View

SEEd Young Changemaker, Aurelia Oliver, talks about her journey throughout the programme

Before joining, I was not very enthusiastic about eco-life, biodiversity, or things like that. But after being a part of Young Changemakers, it showed me how much it actually mattered. I’ve become so much more optimistic about these overlooked topics.

Young Changemaker, King's School, Gloucester

I found myself growing in confidence and have found a newfound love for leadership and teamwork! Working with the site team has made it easier to plan, and I love seeing our eco-garden come to life.

Young Changemaker, Sir William Perkins' School

I now believe that just by talking to people and bringing more understanding to the problems around us, it can positively lead to change in my community.

Young Changemaker, Clifton College

The Educator View

Four educators running SEEd Young Changemakers in their schools discuss the impact of the programme.

There has been a change of culture for the students and community. Teachers, for example, in Spanish have realised they can include the topic [of sustainability] into their Spanish lessons, and they say this is something they feel the students are engaged in, rather than putting up with something they maybe aren’t interested in. Everything really started when we did the whole school approach, and then we saw the need to include YCM to really empower students.

Ana Romero, YCM Facilitator, Wellington College

Looking for More Student-Led Evidence?

Young Changemakers at Sir William Perkins’ School recently created and sent the SEEd Team a wonderful podcast episode all about their experience running Young Changemakers and leading change for sustainability at school.

The episode, “Dr Nasser and the SEEd Programme“, features on SWPS Spotlight – a show sharing stories from the students and alumni at SWPS.

In this podcast, the students share how each group researched and planned projects to boost sustainability, as well as exploring the impact YCM had on student advocacy and mindsets, and helping young people become “world-ready”.

Bring Young Changemakers to Your School

Join a vibrant network of like-minded educators who are putting sustainability and the environment at the heart of learning and embedding youth action-based programmes into the school system.

Spaces for the upcoming academic year (2026-27) are limited. Submit an initial enquiry today to receive comprehensive information and explore how our coordinators can support your school team.

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