COVID-19 Has Robbed Us by Dr Yansie Rolston
COVID-19 has robbed us – not only on account of the lives lost, but it has also stolen our traditional symbolic end of life rituals, experiences and celebrations. During the first wave of the pandemic, the media was full of stories and imagery of the Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic health care workers who were […]
12 Black middle age Lambeth residents to be trained in community entrepreneurship
As part of our new project, Black on Track, we have now recruited 12 vibrant Black middle age residents of Lambeth. They have started 2021 with a commitment to improving employability and entrepreneurial skills using community action as the tool to sharpen their skills as a first step to becoming active citizens in order to […]
13 dead and nothing said by Michael Hamilton
Today, for the fourth or fifth time this week, I received a message from a friend telling of another persons’ child who had died from Covid 19. Today, I opened my WhatsApp to read a message from one of our long-term volunteers who is having to deal with the death of her son. She is […]
Tackling food poverty one shopping bag at a time by Yansie Rolston
View fullsize View fullsize Some people embody kindness and compassion, and whenever those people reach out for help you just cannot say “no”, especially when the call is to benefit the community. Food insecurity and poverty which the Department of Health defines as ‘The inability to afford, or to have access […]
My enemy’s enemy may not be my enemy by Michael Hamilton
Everything that is happening at the moment in the United States of America, coupled with Brexit and a new national lockdown leave a lot to be desired as we usher in 2021. And so wishes for a happy new year seem to have had their gloss knocked off them even before they have been spoken […]
End of Year Reflection from Yvonne Field, Founder and CEO of The Ubele Initiative
I felt slightly nervous last Friday as end of year reflections started to arrive in my inbox. I felt I might struggle to write with already so much being said over the past few days about the past 9 months. However, as the news unfolded over the weekend about a new strain of the Coronavirus […]
Navigating Space Under Lockdown: Experienced professional “Baby Boomers” & “Gen-X’s” are working for and alongside “Millennials” to promote their views and voices
Junior Mtonga, Navigating Space Under Lockdown Project Manager As we wind down to the end of this very much unprecedented year – while new “Tier 4” restrictions start for some & others remain under other tiers – I think it is true to say that most people are ready to say goodbye to 2020 & […]
To Work on Our Power by Violeta Ligrayen Yañez
Since 2018, Working on Our Power (WOOP) has been incubated in the Ubele Initiative as a Transformative Leadership training programme for trans*, non-binary and cis women of colour activists throughout Europe. We are currently finalizing our second rounds of programmes and have trained 58 organisers, activists, healers and facilitators from 11 different countries in 2020. […]
History of anti-racism by Leonie Mills
The British Youth Council (BYC) reached out to Ubele, as one of their partner organisations, to run a workshop on the history of anti-racism from a youth perspective. This was for a group of young people who were on a leadership programme that were being trained to create their own social action projects. A member […]
BHM: Reflecting on unsung Sheroes… by Yvonne Field
As part of a social labs exercise, I recently produced a map which allowed me to surface some of the major policies, people, events and publications which had influenced my life over a period of 50 years. I was surprised by the number of insights which emerged and the real sense that the majority of […]
Racial Justice Under the Microscope – Past, Present and Future by Yvonne Field
Not many people know that I was home schooled. A single act of defiance by my Windrush generation mother against the then local education authority found me unwittingly being taught in my parents’ front room. Over a period of several months I became aware that one could organise and campaign against seemingly intractable systems of racial […]
Staying open and curious – MEL Europe: Writings on a journey
About MEL Europe MEL Europe is our exciting international project that offers a series of creative learning opportunities which will further feed into Ubele’s vision of creating a dynamic and expanded cohort of BME social leaders. With increased competencies and the professional skills they will be able to put their new knowledge to practical use […]
