Our Impact
Focused on Impact
Having a positive impact on our local community and beyond is one of our top priorities.
We want to deliver an annual event that is entertaining, educational and well-organised so that our attendees have a fabulous experience.
But, above that, we want to leave a lasting impression in the minds and hearts of our audience, both at the live event, and beyond as our videos go live on the global TEDx YouTube channel.
Showcasing new ideas is all about sparking conversation, sharing thought-leadership and learning, and potentially influencing the way our audiences think and feel about the world to incite positive behavioural change.
Ideas Change Everything
The strapline for TEDx changed in 2024 to Ideas Change Everything to reflect the focus on having an impact on the world, as opposed to it being just about spreading an idea that might get lost in the noise of multiple communication streams we’ve all become accustomed to.
It is against that backdrop that we have created this page:
- to spotlight the initiatives we’re pursuing to support and improve our community – near and far,
- to share stories of where our talks have taken both speakers and audiences in the past, and
- to nurture the wonderful sense of community that TEDxWarrington invests in.
TEDxWarrington 2025 has youth on it’s side
2025 sees TEDxWarrington investing heavily in the younger section of our community. Here are 3 of our initiatives so far:
- Partnership with Warrington Youth Zone, who will host our event and showcase their wonderful facilities and services for young people.
Selecting a venue partner each year takes us time. We like to move around, showcase the town’s locations, and have a connection to the spirit of our location. WYZ was the perfect fit for a year when our focus would fall on young people, so integrating their services and projects into our promotional journey, as well as at the live event, is key.
- Creation of an extra place for a Young Applicant (16-24 years) with an idea to share.
TEDxWarrington has introduced a Young Applicant category for its 2025 event as part of its investment in the voices of tomorrow. Applicants have a separate application timetable and support package, with a later closing date of 31 July and the pitch night in September. The successful candidate will be given coaching and support to get them to the TEDx stage so all they need is a great idea – the rest we help with. If you are a Young Person with an idea to share, apply here.
- Development of a TEDxWarrington Bursary Programme to offer subsidised tickets for the under-25s.
Our Bursary programme will offer discounted attendee tickets to anyone under 25 years of age when tickets open later this year. Plus, it will also subsidise 2 tickets and 1 member of staff for every Warrington school and college and university with students aged 16-25. For applicable organisations, please email us at organisingteam@tedxwarrington.co.uk to register for these tickets.
Please spread the word…
We hope you’ll agree that these ideas (and we have more in planning), are exciting development that take us into new sections of the community.
If you have young people in your life, college or workplace, please help us to spread the word about our plans so we can maximise their reach and impact.
Keeping it Local
During every step of event planning and delivery, we focus heavily on supporting the local community, town of Warrington and county of Cheshire.
In our curation plan, our outreach work invests in building relationships with town-based and regional organisations to share our messages and invite suggestions and partnerships and speakers
For inbound applications, we give extra consideration to local voices with great ideas to share.
Within the organising team, all members work voluntarily and are based or trading in the Warrrington and Cheshire area to ensure. For those outside of the area, they are usually former speakers who are keen to come back to support a project they enjoyed and benefited from.
And for suppliers – from venue to audio visual, photography to videography, merchandising to catering – we source local quotes so that we support businesses on the ground near us and a supply chain that is on our doorstep.
A non-profit ethos
TED and TEDx is of course a non-profit organisation in its own right, and by default the TEDxWarrington association is too.
Team members volunteer their time, speakers are not paid nor pay us for their place.
Volunteering by team members and partners offering services results in hundreds of pro bono hours – it is the ultimate example of CSR without any kind of CPD accreditation or company paid time. Yes, those involved may increase their local profile but their give-back to this project and often personal sacrifice far exceeds the value of this, so it has to come form a place of dedication to the ethos of TED/TEDx spreading new ideas and positive behavioural change, and a desire to be involved in leaving a legacy.
The event is funded by the generosity of local businesses who sponsor the event and from members of the public who buy tickets to attend.
Though we do not affiliate ourselves with or fundraise for specific charities, we do of course embrace opportunities to work alongside them. If speaker applicants reach our stage and represent a charity, we are delighted that their organisations get indirect benefit. If pieces of performance and entertainment are delivered by third sector groups, we are similarly happy to embrace what they can showcase at the live event.
Watch this space for 2025 live event will bring!
Event Impact
Coming soon…
Help us create a lasting impact in Warrington
Community is at the heart of our work.
We want to keep nurturing that concept.
And bring together the multiple communities we’re creating and investing in – event attendees, partners and sponsors, organising team members, annual speaker cohorts, the Warrington and Cheshire region and even beyond as our ideas inspire others or reach further.
Have you got an idea of how TEDx could create more impact in the Warrington community?
We’d love to hear from you so please engage with us via Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram or send us an email at organisingteam@tedxwarrington.co.uk