Cambridge is brilliant at changing the world. The Cambridge Pledge is about changing Cambridge.
The Cambridge Pledge unites Cambridge’s brilliance and resources to widen opportunity – making prosperity as inclusive as it is innovative.
Make your pledge today – multiply your impact and join the movement for a fairer Cambridge.

Find out who’s getting involved.
Pledge
The Cambridge Pledge is a shared commitment to turn the city’s wealth and innovation into lasting social good. It unites philanthropists, businesses, institutions, and citizens to strengthen opportunity and resilience across our community.
The Cambridge Pledge - inspired by visionary initiatives like The Founders Pledge and Life Sciences Cares, has emerged from the Innovate Cambridge Strategy — has a bold roadmap for meaningful, lasting impact.

Pledges represent a commitment to creating a healthier, more equitable, and thriving community, with tangible benefits that our neighbours will experience in their daily lives.

We invite you to be part of this transformative movement. By pledging a meaningful portion of your future wealth or making a charitable donation, you can help drive this change and shape a better future. Let’s build something extraordinary together.
Pledge
Driving change
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‍‍The Cambridge Pledge addresses the issues too complex for short-term fixes:

Disadvantaged young people – investing in skills, confidence, and networks before exclusion takes hold·      
Children in care – funding services that bring stability and opportunity, opening paths to adulthood·      
Families in crisis – backing models that step in earlier, giving families tools and breathing space
People experiencing homelessness – building secure futures
News
Cambridge entrepreneurs address city’s inequality with pioneering £multimillion ‘pay-it- forward’ initiative.
The city aims to become world leader in social innovation alongside its academic, life sciences and tech prowess.
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Our  pledgers
Bridges Impact Foundation

Prof. Sir Tony Kouzarides

Marcel Gehrung, CEO, Cyted Health

Lucy Jung, Founder, Charco

Sara Allen, Executive Director, The Cambridge Pledge

Edward Benthall, Chair, CIC

Clare Sutcliffe MBE, Co-founder, Code Club
And many more to come....
Our supporters
Innovate Cambridge is so proud to support The Cambridge Pledge to create a community of peers who are committed to achieving real change by tackling the most pressing challenges in our community. Founders, entrepreneurs and businesses benefit each day from being at the heart of an innovation superpower –it’s time to ensure its the most inclusive innovation ecosystem in the world too.
Dr. Kathryn Chapman
Executive Director, Innovate Cambridge
The Cambridge Pledge will play a critical role in tackling the challenges faced by so many in our community, by our neighbours. It will see Cambridge leading the way in social innovation, alongside our world-leading tech and life sciences innovation. It’s something to be really proud of – and so I’m delighted that Bridges Foundation is able to support this important work. I know others will be inspired to join us.
Bridges Impact Foundation
At its best, Cambridge is a place for bold ideas that change the world. It’s also a city with significant differences in life chances and health outcomes. The Cambridge Pledge goes some way to demonstrating how we can change that with the same big thinking our city is renowned for. It provides a route for the wealth created here to complement our and local charities work to tackle some of the most pressing social challenges in our communities
Councillor Mike Davey
Leader, Cambridge City Council
Innovate Cambridge is all about making Cambridge one of the best places in the world to build knowledge intensive businesses that drive solutions to technical, economic and social challenges. What we have all worked out is that this can only succeed if the benefits are felt throughout our community – trickle down, in the sense of an automatic benefit of wealth generation, is a myth. The Cambridge Pledge allows us, individually and collectively, to make sure it happens.
Edward Benthall
Chair, CIC
I started Charco because I wanted to improve the quality of life for people with Parkinsons. And I’m supporting The Cambridge Pledge because I want to be part of a movement to improve the quality of life for our community. Seeing innovators coming together to tackle social challenges makes me feel inspired and hopeful for the future.
Lucy Jung (Soo Min Jung)
Founder, Charco
The growing divide in the Greater Cambridge area is heartbreaking. Cambridge can’t achieve its vision of being one of the world’s leading innovation ecosystems without being a great place to live and work for all residents. The Cambridge Pledge is one of the ways we can bridge the gap.
Michael Anstey, PhD
Partner, Cambridge Innovation Capital
The Cambridge Pledge is key to demonstrating that growth and innovation visibly benefit everyone in our community – and securing public support for the ambitions set out by Innovate Cambridge. It will be feature prominently in our discussions with government about a substantial programme of investment for our region.
Robert Pollock
Chief Executive, Cambridge City Council