Who We Are
About The TCS Foundation
TCS Foundation is a Community Interest Company built on one conviction: that the society we want to live in is formed by the young people we choose to invest in — and that investment has to start early, before potential is lost to circumstance.
Our Story
TCS was not built from research. It was built from lived experience.
In May 2025, Jaydan Okunola founded Tomorrow's Changed Society at 19 years old. He had spent over a decade in the care and adoption system — moving through four secondary schools, facing exclusion, and navigating a path with very little support and even fewer people who believed the destination was worth reaching.
He reached it anyway. A Law student at King's College London, a Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholar, and recipient of the Aya Scholarship — awarded by King's College London on behalf of the British Transport Police — Jaydan built TCS not because his story was exceptional, but because it should not have had to be.
"With the right tools, the right people, and someone who genuinely believes in you — every young person can get there. TCS exists to be that for young people who do not have it."
In 2024, Jaydan was named Young Person of the Year by Achieving for Children — recognition not just of what he had overcome, but of what he had already started building for others.
Our Mission
The problem is not the students. It never was.
Our education system was built to instruct — not to form. It was designed to pass on knowledge, manage behaviour, and produce measurable outputs. What it was never built to do is develop the whole person: their identity, their sense of purpose, their belief in their own capacity to contribute to the world around them.
The result is a system that works reasonably well for young people whose needs are already met outside of it — and fails, quietly and consistently, those whose needs are not. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds, care-experienced young people, those carrying trauma or navigating environments that were never stable — the system does not meet them where they are. It expects them to meet the system.
When a young person disengages, we call it a behaviour problem. But disengagement is not a failure of character. It is a rational response to a system that has stopped speaking to you.
Our schools sort more than they develop. They reward compliance over curiosity, performance over growth, and the already-confident over the quietly capable. Civic identity — the sense that you have a stake in society and a role within it — is treated as a bonus, not a foundation. And so we produce generations of young people who are technically educated but not genuinely formed.
This is not just a programme. It is a movement to form the generation that will change what society looks like — starting with the young people the current system was most content to leave behind.
Leadership, resilience, belonging, and civic identity are not qualities that some young people are born with and others are not. They are qualities that have to be built — deliberately, relatably, and early. The future belongs to those who are ready to lead it. TCS makes sure far more young people are.
Our Pledge
Everything TCS does is grounded in these seven commitments. They are not aspirations — they are the standard we hold ourselves to in every school, every session, and every relationship we build.
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Develop real futures
We give young people access to professional mentors and real-world leadership opportunities — not just inspiration, but the tools to act on it.
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Build positive values from the inside out
Through peer mentorship, civic campaigns, and content creation, we help young people internalise values that last — not just follow rules that don't.
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Equip young people for life
Public speaking, teamwork, civic engagement, social integration — the skills that schools rarely teach but life always demands.
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Develop civic voice
We empower young people to understand the society they live in, engage with it critically, and lead conversations that shape it.
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Widen access and raise ceilings
We connect young people to industry professionals, career pathways, and communities of ambition — because social mobility requires more than motivation.
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Keep young people out of the justice system
We intervene before crisis. By building identity, purpose, and positive role models early, we disrupt the pipeline — not the person.
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Change the narrative around young people
We platform the work young people are doing — in schools, in communities, in society — because the story told about a generation shapes what that generation believes it can do.
Core Values
These are not slogans. They are the lens through which every TCS programme is designed and delivered.
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Relatability over authority
Young people do not need another adult telling them what to do. They need someone whose story makes them believe their own is possible. We lead with lived experience — always.
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Tangible change
We do not deal in vague inspiration. Character, belonging, and confidence have to be felt — especially by young people who have been let down by words before.
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Belonging
We break down the divisions that schools can quietly reinforce — between year groups, between the engaged and the excluded — and build genuine community in their place.
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Civic responsibility
Every young person TCS works with leaves with a stronger sense of their place in society — and a belief that their voice in it matters.
The Team
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Jaydan Okunola
Founder, CEO & Director
As a care leaver with over 10 years navigating the care and adoption system, Jaydan knows first-hand the dangers that a lack of role model — or the presence of a negative one — poses. Having attended four secondary schools and experienced both internal and external exclusion, he nonetheless secured a place at King's College London as a Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholar, and received the Aya Scholarship — awarded by King's College London on behalf of the British Transport Police.
His mission is to empower young people in his former position to realise that they alone are in control of their story. He firmly believes that with the right support, all children can flourish.
- Young Person of the Year 2024 – Achieving for Children
- Excellence for All Award – Orleans Park School
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Christina Harrison
Secretary & CFO
Christina Harrison has been Jaydan's former foster carer for the last four years. She is also a maths teacher at a preparatory school and serves as the home hub carer for the 'Mockingbird' initiative for Richmond & Kingston — a programme that seeks to build a community of foster children and carers alike.
Christina has witnessed Jaydan's determination first-hand and believes wholeheartedly in this initiative. She oversees all enquiries and appointments for the foundation.
- Foster Carer of the Year 2024 – Achieving for Children