Our partners
Young Leaders Organisation (YLO)
UNSOC is proud to be sponsored by Young Leaders Organisation for the 2020- 2021 academic year! Young Leaders Organisation is a platform that aims to help connect like minded youth all around the world and foster a creative environment that is conducive to the development of ideas, to the betterment of our global community, and to the nurturing of positive change in the world.
United Nations Association - United Kingdom
UNA-UK is the country’s foremost advocate for UK action at the UN; the UK's leading source of analysis on the UN; and a vibrant grassroots movement of 20,000 people from all walks of life. The LSESU United Nations Society is a local student Society associated of UNA-UK and we often work in close contact with the Association in many projects.
By providing a platform for many UN Speakers and by advocating for UK action at the UN, our Society supports the work of the UNA-UK and promotes an active and constructive UK Foreign Policy.
The Childhood Trust
The Childhood Trust is dedicated to alleviating the impact of childhood poverty in London, and they work with grassroots charities to bring this about. The number one Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations is to eradicate poverty in all dimensions by 2030. The LSESU United Nations Society is a proud partner of the Childhood Trust which forms a crucial link between international agreements and the grassroots action that brings about real change.
UNSOC volunteers will be stewarding the London Child Poverty Summit on the 20th of September 2022. For more information, please click here.
SDSN Youth
We are happy to announce that we are a official Member Organization of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network - Youth (SDSN Youth), and as such, look forward to empowering youth globally to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals!
If you are interested in what SDSN Youth does, we encourage you to sign up to the SDSN and SDSN Youth newsletters and to connect with SDSN on Facebook and Twitter in order to keep up with important updates and opportunities.
BAFUNCS
The British Association of Former United Nations Civil Servants (BAFUNCS) has over 700 members based mainly in the United Kingdom. Between them they have thousands of years of experience working in over 30 different parts of the United Nations and its specialised agencies. In 2015, at the request of UNA-UK, BAFUNCS came together with the UN Society of LSE to develop a collaborative programme through which former UN Staff members could share their experiences with students interested in a career in the United Nations or international development more generally.
The model developed at that time has been refined and repeated at LSE with BAFUNCS members participating in evening panels and more informal lunch time sessions and has been replicated in part at several other Universities in the UK. These events have proved extremely popular with successive generations of students and the UN Society plans to work with BAFUNCS to continue the programme at LSE as well as helping to share the model with Societies in other Universities.
Bright Network
We are so proud to announce that UNSOC has partnered with Bright Network from 2022!
Bright Network is an amazing organisation of 700000+ members, who all benefit from the incredible free career platform that they offer. Designed to support you throughout university and beyond, Bright Network delivers a range of events, tailored to meet your goals and boost your skill sets.
We are taking part in Bright Network’s 6 week challenge, where we can get some amazing resources and monetary supplements if we achieve a certain number of sign ups. So sign up to Bright Network and explore and discover the fantastic range of opportunities that they have to offer using this link: Bright Network
Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation
In 2014, the LSESU United Nations Society introduced the Blue Dragon Children's Foundation initiative. The Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation is a non-governmental organisation supporting children in crisis situations in Vietnam.
With children’s rights being a significant dimension of human rights, Blue Dragon act as practitioners that we can learn from in the field. They provide several programmes targeted at the development of the child, however old, and therefore provide a wide range of services tailored to the individual’s needs. These include education, nutrition, health care, counselling, rehabilitation from sex trafficking, restoration into family environments, physical and creative activities, rescue, legal advocacy and safe shelter. These are all provided through a dedicated team of Vietnamese social workers, psychologists, teachers and lawyers.
In the past decade, they have sent over 3,000 kids back to school and training, reunited 230 runaway children with their families, rescued 353 trafficked children, to name but a few of their achievements.
Polis Analysis
We are delighted to announce that UNSOC has partnered with Polis Analysis from 2022!
Polis Analysis is a political analysis organisation that delivers impartial, fact based and accessible reports for over 100 countries. With teams in London, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Istanbul, Washington DC and Hong Kong, Polis Analysis has the mission of helping individuals navigate the political world. Their services include the Daily Briefing, a deep dive into single political issues; the Intelligence Briefing, a daily horizon scan of multiple key events across the world; and the Polis Podcast, a conversation with the founder of Polis Analysis over key international issues.
Our partnership will involve: Bespoke Internship Programmes, specially designed for LSE UNSOC members, with the potential to lead to part time roles; collaboration on Polis' campaign to tackle fake news through raising awareness and proposing policy solutions to the UK Government; multiple joint speaker events, including ones on news cycles, as well as events to promote Polis' mission and what they have to offer; and numerous researchers and speakers for our upcoming podcast.
You can find them on Instagram here: @polisanalysis, on LinkedIn or on their website here!
OpenIGO
OpenIGO is an extensive network formed of professors and researchers from the best universities in the world, professionals from international organisations and Human Resources specialists. They provide a range of services, all working to provide individuals with a better capacity to apply and work in IGOs (International Governmental Organisation).
They believe that working in international organisations means to make an important social impact on the world. However, there is still a lack of knowledge about how to enter these organisations and difficulty in accessing information about the different recruitment and selection processes. The OpenIGO network was created to change this situation.
OpenIGO works to produce and disseminate knowledge about career development, recruitment and selections at intergovernmental organisations, through mentoring, coaching, application reviews, mock interviews, and forums.
Iris Talk
We are partnering with the discussion platform app, Iris Talk. This fantastic app will give you the opportunity to discuss current affairs in private conversations between 5 to 6 people. In the community that we have set up, we will provide prompts for topics of conversations, and then we will give you the opportunity to write and publish summaries on the discussions that you have. Sign up to the app here.