Unloc

Hayden co-founded Unloc, an educational social enterprise, in response to his local youth forum losing funding in 2011. With renewed vigour from the One Young World Summit in 2014, Hayden has grown the organisation steadily at a rate of around 40% year on year, reaching more British children every year, offering a more innovative educational programme every year, and creating a larger, more inspired generation of changemakers.

In 2019, Unloc worked with a network of over 200 partner schools and colleges across the United Kingdom. Unloc creates a unique programme for each partner, based around one or two of their core educational pillars: Enterprise, Leadership, Student Voice and Career Pathways.

Each idiosyncratic course teaches the students, and encourages them to be changemakers who contribute positively to the world around them. It is important to the organisation that this educational opportunity is available to school children regardless of their socioeconomic background, thus offering subsidised opportunities to schools in more vulnerable communities.

In 2019, Unloc reached 10,700 British school children, a significant increase on the 830 students who attended training programmes when Unloc was analysed in One Young World’s 2015 impact analysis. Of the students educated in 2019, 7,025 have received entrepreneurial training, 2,750 learned leadership skills, and 970 participated in a student voice mentorship programme.

In 2020, it is on track to reach over 19,000 students. Hayden has established other initiatives through the One Young World network, including a programme he established with fellow One Young World Ambassador Jean d’Amour Mutoni, to accelerate social enterprises in Rwanda.