History
EWB-UK was started by a group of students at Cambridge University in 2001, at the original suggestion of Parker Mitchell (co-founder of EWB Canada) who was then doing an MPhil in Sustainable Development at the university. Sarah Hindle (Engineering undergrad) and Richard Sargeant (Political Science undergrad) were the first directors and recruited and ran the executive.
In 2002, with the help of an initial £10,000 donation from Anglo American, EWB-UK arranged its first overseas placement in Pondicherry, India, with an organisation called ORSED. The first Clare Farm training course also took place. Work began on building research and knowledge sharing capacity.
In the years since, under a number of different directors, the number and variety of training courses, overseas placements (which now amounts to 60 per year) and more recently research projects has grown significantly. The number of branches has now grown to 31.
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