TCS Foundation Launch
Our system is not broken. It was built this way. At Tomorrow's Changed Society, we're not waiting for reform — we're building the future with the young people most ignored by the present.
Our. System. Is. Not. Broken. It. Was. Built. This. Way.
The structural consequences of capitalism often disadvantage those without access to wealth, stability, or support — reinforcing cycles that favour the already privileged and marginalise those without.
Just because it might not affect you, does not mean it is not rigged for many of our young people.
Because it affects every aspect of a young person's life:
- School Exclusion — Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are 5 times more likely to be excluded from school.
- Education Gap — By the end of secondary school, the education gap for disadvantaged pupils is nearly two full years (19.2 months).
- Criminal Justice — Children in care are significantly overrepresented in the youth justice system.
- Employment Bias — Graduates from low socioeconomic backgrounds are 32% less likely to receive a job offer than wealthier applicants, even with the same qualifications.
- Life Expectancy — There's over a decade's difference in life expectancy between the most and least deprived areas in England.
- Healthy Life — The gap in healthy life expectancy is even starker: over 19 years between the most and least deprived areas.
As a society claiming to care about fixing deep-rooted societal issues, we cannot allow this to persist like it has for centuries.
We have been criminalising society's most powerful and driven individuals.
Because it's easier to marginalise individuals than admit the system needs reform.
It's easier to label them as the problem, rather than blaming ourselves for the society we create.
At Tomorrow's Changed Society, we're not waiting for reform.
We're building the future with the young people most ignored by the present.
We'll train youth ambassadors. We'll run civic education programmes. We'll turn pain into leadership.
Join us. Mentor. Sponsor. Share. Speak.
Because the fight for equity starts by believing in those the system doubts most.
Be a part of the solution, or complicit in the problem.