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I think the Waterbear streaming platform is a hugely hopeful story. It is the first interactive streaming platform dedicated to the future of our planet featuring award-winning documentaries, enlightening short films and impactful series.

My hopeful story is Liz Robinson, who runs an organisation called Big Education. A multi trust academy that is focused on the idea of reexamining how we educate our children to ensure that we are drawing out the very best in them as opposed to pouring into them what we think is useful for an economy, is easy to measure and easy to build a system for. Liz and the people that she works with are all incredible innovators in the education space and yet they are deeply entrenched within the system. They know the politics, they know the systemic challenges that it faces and the pressures that are being put on everybody in that system. They are determined to find a way through proof points not through some conceptual magic, but through evidence and proof and case studies to take a new way of teaching to society to government and ensure that we draw out of children the best that is possible.

My story of hopefulness is mediator Gabrielle Rifkind who specialises in conflict resolution with Oxford Process. She is a psychotherapist by training, but she has spent the last 25 years working on conflict resolution. Her idea is that, to make peace you really need to bring the differences of the people into a room and you need to have a way of resolving those differences with empathy allowing space for people to grieve and to express anger. Her work around the world is so inspiring to me.

Neil Pinder is my story of hope. A teacher who founded the organisation Homegrown Plus as a way of improving diversity in architecture. There's lots of people doing great work around the environment but the built environment has never been particularly inclusive. It's been very white, male and middle class. It's also a very expensive profession to train for so It's not been as inclusive as it should have been but things are really starting to change. I'm really impressed and moved by the work that Neil Pender is doing for Homegrown Plus, a charity that he has set up as a way of getting young people involved in architecture.

I had the privilege of being an ambassador for The Homeless Football World Cup which is my story of hopefuless. They bring over 40 teams together from around the world and create a tournament that embraces talent and says everybody can succeed with a little bit of help. I spoke to people from countries like Indonesia, Brazil and Colombia and all these people have got these mad stories. With teamwork, people's lives can change. I saw how football can make somebody so happy but not only that I saw how amazing it is to see people who have been in the same situation, connect with other people from around the world and share their stories. I'm so proud to have been a part of it.

I love the work of PEM (People Empowering People) who seek to be a bridge between the council, institutions and charities; enabling local residents the opportunity to showcase the wealth of talent that exists within the community, and creating opportunities for local people to initiate and develop solutions to local issues.

The Sekem School near Cairo in Egypt is my hopeful story. They are passionate about Sustainable development and serve Muslim and Christian children alike, encouraging them to live in harmony and have respect for the other’s religious practices.

Wangari Maath is inspiring to me as the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and the founder of the Green Belt Movement. She was the first woman to have a PhD in Kenya, but her heart was always in politics. She thought that she wanted to build a movement for democracy but then she was challenged by the fact that many of the people were illiterate and she couldn't talk to them about democracy and politics and all these concepts. She focussed her energy instead to peoples passion and reality around restoring nature and taking care of seedlings and trees and restoring rivers in response to brutal development. This was the start of the Green Belt Movement.

My story of hopefulness, is a boat. And it's not just any boat. It's a Dhow boat made of plastic that's being collected from the beaches and oceans and clad in 30,000 flip flops, which is the footwear of 3 billion people and the most common item found on our beach cleanups in Kenya, The flipi floppy is an icon in East Africa, to advocate for ending single use plastic, and also for for reusing the plastic that's being collected. It is one of the most vibrant, optimistic, icons that makes you smile.

Hope for me is found in so many places. I see so many people using their skills, platforms and gifts to make this world a bit more beautiful. Female leadership, like Jacinda Ardern, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Kamala Harris, give me incredible hope, not only for speaking truth to power but also for young girls like the daughter of a good friend of mine to grow up and see incredible women in such leadership positions. In the investing space I'm given hope by the increasing movement toward impact and sustainable investments. In the arts, I'm given hope by the countless artists raising their voices to speak up about injustices and inequality.

A story of hopefulness for me is the charity Earth percent which was set up to unleash the power of music in service of the planet. They do this in a monetary way and in a community based way. Earth percent is engaged at all levels of the music industry, from artists all the way up to their management and production companies. Earth Percent help the industry to find innovative mechanisms to give back to the planet whether it's giving a cut of your touring income or choosing the earth to be a co-writer on a song and therefore earning a percentage of royalties. Earth Percent are here for the innovation and for the systemic change.

There is so much hopefulness for me as I look at the calibre of fashion designers across Africa. Lucilla Booyzen in South Africa, Adama Ndiaye in Senegal, Gloria Wavamunno in Uganda and Omoyemi Akerele in Nigeria are all moving the fashion industry forward in an exciting way.

The Sustainable Ocean Alliance which activates young people and mobilizes an ocean workforce to restore the health of the ocean. I just love the fact that they are able to pull in voices from around the world and really create a drive towards creating policy, attending conferences and being able to project their voices on these platforms.

My story is Cultural style week which is an event that enables everyone to embrace and share their culture through the power of fashion. A stand out moment for me was seeing a women whose mother was from Afghanistan and father from Russia. With both countries at war she wanted to wear something that she felt could bring her a sense of peace as well as celebrate where she's from in this difficult time for both countries. She was able to do this through cultural style week.

My hopeful stories are the people I have met in Sierra Leone, who run an amputee project out there. There's Pastor Finney, who looks after amputees and will get up in the middle of the night and get on his bicycle and visit amputees at the other side of town. The project is run by a girl called Anna who has given up her life to help child orphans in Sierra Leone, and she's just an incredible person. And I also met somebody called Miss Jane who lives with an amputee called Annabel who she found dying in a ditch. These are people that give their lives unconditionally and completely and are totally inspirational people.

My story of hopefulness is The million realities fellowship who believe that transforming society can only happen when people transform themselves first. They have brilliantly created a two-year fellowship programme designed to bring together, champion and support social impact leaders, who have a vision to bring about systemic social change.