Become a Fellow
All Fellows make an annual charitable subscription to the work of the RSA. If you’re aged 18-25, you can now join us for just £52 a year. That’s £1 a week to be part of a global network of changemakers.
RSA U25 Fellowship
Under 25? Become a Fellow for £1 per week
Bring your voice, ideas, energy and expertise to our community of inspirational people creating social impact.
At the RSA, we are committed and passionate about regenerating our world through collective action – leading social impact initiatives since 1754.
If you’re aged 18-25 become a Fellow for £1 a week, support the work of the RSA and access opportunities to amplify your impact. Together we can enable people, places and the planet to flourish in harmony.
What are the benefits?
Our Fellows are better informed, better connected, and better committed to creating a better future for all. What does this mean?
Connect and engage
Connect and engage with our community and build your own network on Circle, our online platform for Fellows. Use FRSA (Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts) after your name to let everyone know you are one of us.
Get inspired
Attend weekly events with world-class speakers, access a suite of research and changemaking projects, support our Design for Life mission, receive our award-winning Journal to your door.
Amplify your work
Host a Fellow-led event, publish a comment piece, develop your ideas by collaborating with other Fellows.
Work from RSA House
Our historic building, in the heart of London, has bookable meeting spaces, a superb library, the best coffee in Covent Garden and opportunities to meet Fellows.
Meet our young Fellows
Ethan Corcoran
Ethan is a digital designer, community manager and film-maker. He currently works for the Fulbright Program’s global alumni platform, Fulbrighter, collaborating with the US Government on global strategy for Fulbright’s alumni and grantees in over 180 countries.
Sukhjeen Kaur
Sukhjeen is founder and CEO of Chronically Brown, a non-profit organisation working towards tackling the stigma of disability within the South Asian community. She started Chronically Brown as a result of her own experiences of people not understanding or accepting her disabilities
Nikita Khadawala
Nikita educates students, founders, enterprises and public sector professionals about the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of work, equipping them with strategies and toolkits to augment themselves with this new tech.
ZeZe (Zaynab)
ZeZe is the young founder of Emotion Dysregulation in Autism, the UK’s only charity to provide peer support autistic young people with in-patient experience to reintegrate back into community. She has lived experience and knows first-hand the systemic harm caused.
Start your Fellowship journey with us
Are you ready? We want you to be part of our community to inspire and be inspired. Together we can make change visible.
The RSA is a space where I can come and work extremely effectively, where I can meet other people and then there were a whole load of benefits that I didn’t even realise – an incredible library, amazing Fellows who I get to chat to over lunch who are doing all kinds of wonderful and interesting things, and now I can invite other people to the RSA and collaborate with them.
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RSA content about young people you might find interesting
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Young at heart
Feature
Jonathan Prosser
Becoming a nation with children at its centre in 10 courageous steps.
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Inspired by nature
Blog
Rebecca Ford Alessandra Tombazzi Penny Hay
Our Playful green planet team summarises a ‘lunch and learn’ at RSA House that focused on how the influence of nature can benefit a child’s development.
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State of paralysis
Report
Toby Murray Josh Priest Amy Gandon Natalie Lai Jolyon Miles-Wilson Eirini Zormpa Kimberly Bohling
State of paralysis focuses on young people’s (16-24-year-olds) economic security and what it means for their health and wellbeing.
RSA work young social innovators have been involved in
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Anoushka Sinha: Featured Fellow Q&A
Blog
Gamini Sethi
Anoushka Sinha is the visionary founder of the Anupam Foundation, a youth-led organisation addressing gender equity, accessible education, and climate change. Read our Featured Fellow Q&A with Anoushka here.
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Sophie Hague: me and my education
Blog
Sophie Hague
Sophie Hague, a 2022 Student Design Award winner, explains how design helped to identify the learning techniques that worked for her.
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Zubair Junjunia: Featured Fellow Q&A
Blog
Gamini Sethi
RSA Fellow Zubair Junjunia talks about the challenges of young entrepreneurship, educational equity and the role community plays in building purpose-driven, intersectional social enterprises.