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Strategic partnerships

Support us as we change tomorrow through creativity

Do you want to source creative ideas aligned to your social purpose?

RSA Spark builds on our legacy of inspiring innovation. In 2024, we are transforming our Student Design Awards, Pupil Design Awards and Catalyst Awards to create one unified and enhanced offer.

You and your organisation could be working with us on a range of innovative action and research briefs. Curated by our team, social entrepreneurs participate in pioneering solutions that deliver lasting change. These ground-breaking innovation ideas will help you and your organisation reach its environmental, social and governance goals while supporting learners, entrepreneurs and underserved communities.

By lending your support as a strategic partner of the RSA Spark programme, you will also benefit from increased positive brand association, putting your organisation in the spotlight for entrepreneurs all over the world.

Partner with us on RSA Spark

Contact our team for more information about this exciting opportunity and become a strategic partner.

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Could you be a strategic partner of RSA Spark?

We are looking for 10 purpose-led organisations that align their mission with social and environmental impact. This is a fantastic opportunity for partners to source creative ideas, invest in future-proofed skills, engage new and existing stakeholders and to demostrate your purpose in a meaningful way.

Source creative ideas that are aligned with your organisational purpose. We work with you to co-design a mission-led brief around your R&D, ESG or EDI objectives, and open it up to creative responses from learners and entrepreneurs globally.

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Invest in future talent as participants grow innovative capabilities for life, essential for the success of regenerative businesses.

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Engage your employees, customers and stakeholders meaningfully via mentoring, workshops and learning sessions.

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Platform your brand and align your organisation with other purpose-driven organisations seeking to contribute to a more regenerative world.

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Explore RSA Spark

From 2025, RSA Spark will offer collaborative and inclusive learning experiences for children, learners and entrepreneurs helping them grow the capabilities and ideas needed for a regenerative world.

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Our legacy of impact

We have supported some of the most innovative changemakers and their projects through our past awards and grants programmes. With these now making up the RSA Spark, there’s never been a more exciting time to partner with us to ensure that legacy continues.

Student Design Awards

Our Student Design Awards recognised the very best burgeoning design thinking talent. Past winners include Richard Howarth (VP of Design at Apple), Betty Jackson MBE (Fashion designer) and Matt McGrath (inventor).

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Pupil Design Awards

Social entrepreneurship can start at an early age and the Pupil Design Awards were founded to celebrate that fact. Participants use creativity to tackle real challenges to enable people, places and the planet to flourish in harmony.

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Catalyst Awards

We awarded £100,000 annually supporting RSA Fellows as they tested social change innovations and scaled up the impact of their projects. Read about past grantees Lab_13 and The Offer and Needs Market.

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The collaboration between Kew Gardens and the RSA offers students the unique opportunity to combine their creativity with wider real-world challenges and think holistically about the social need and the environmental impact of their designs. It also allows Kew and the RSA to nurture the next generation of designers and environmental stewards who will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our planet.

Paul Denton
Head of Programmes and Exhibitions, Kew Gardens Paul Denton

Regenerative mission-led innovation

Our Design for Life mission informs everything about these awards. By 2030, our impact through the mission will ensure:

  • CAPABILITIES: Equip over 20,000 life-long innovators with capabilities for life.
  • CONNECTIONS: Every innovator will make valuable social connections.
  • ACTION: Create, seed or scale over 1,500 impact ideas and enterprises.

Design for Life

Read about our mission to enable people, places and the planet to flourish in harmony.

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Contact our Strategic Partnerships team about how we can support you

Explore the many ways of partnering with us and our work below

Strategic Partnerships

Develop innovative projects, collaborate with key opinion formers and share expertise to drive social change.

Fellowship Partners

RSA Fellowship partners are organisations that offer their staff all the benefits of becoming a Fellow of the RSA.

Corporate membership

Become an RSA corporate member to demonstrate your organisation’s purpose better and collaborate to align your values with those of society and the environment.
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