Canerow Threads of Intergenerational Leadership with Barbara Gray
Canerow: Threads of Intergenerational Leadership is a storytelling series capturing the wisdom, resilience, and vision of Black women leaders across generations. Rooted in the Canerow project, these reflections explore leadership, legacy, and community through the voices of those shaping the future. The full interviews will be included in a print publication and released for Black History […]
Canerow Threads of Intergenerational Leadership with Anita J. McKenzie
Canerow: Threads of Intergenerational Leadership is a storytelling series capturing the wisdom, resilience, and vision of Black women leaders across generations. Rooted in the Canerow project, these reflections explore leadership, legacy, and community through the voices of those shaping the future. The full interviews will be included in a print publication and released for Black History […]
Canerow Threads of Intergenerational Leadership with Yvonne Christie
Canerow: Threads of Intergenerational Leadership is a storytelling series capturing the wisdom, resilience, and vision of Black women leaders across generations. Rooted in the Canerow project, these reflections explore leadership, legacy, and community through the voices of those shaping the future. The full interviews will be included in a print publication and released for Black History […]
Canerow Threads of Intergenerational Leadership with Mia Morris OBE
Canerow: Threads of Intergenerational Leadership is a storytelling series capturing the wisdom, resilience, and vision of Black women leaders across generations. Rooted in the Canerow project, these reflections explore leadership, legacy, and community through the voices of those shaping the future. The full interviews will be included in a print publication and released for Black History […]
Funding Without the Fuss: Helping You Navigate Grant and Loan Support with Confidence
Let’s be honest, applying for funding isn’t exactly anyone’s idea of fun. Especially when it involves both a grant and a loan. Forms, business plans, budgets, repayment terms… it can feel like you need a degree just to get started. But here’s the good news: you don’t have to do it alone! At Ubele, supported […]
Manifesting Dreams: A Personal Reflection on Faith, Resilience and Collective Action
My daughter Omolara recently suggested I write a book about manifesting. Her comment came after I successfully achieved a long-held wish: attending the final day of the Chelsea Flower Show—thanks to a last-minute, freebie ticket from a friend. One of my surprising superpowers seems to be cosmic ordering About 13 years ago, I wrote a […]
Reflections on The Black Systemic Safety Fund: An Exchange Between Adrian Jones & Tamanda Walker
In this interview, Adrian Jones, a local expert and participant in the Black Systemic Safety Fund speaks with Dr. Tamanda Walker, a member of the social lab’s learning partnership team, to discuss representation, diversity, and who and what we mean by the word ‘black’ in the context of Black-led systems change initiatives. Tamanda: Hi Adrian. […]
A Community Response to the Riots
In the wake of the race riots that swept across the UK in August 2024, The Ubele Initiative, alongside members of the Alliance for Racial Justice, set up an emergency conversation (Watch here) to assess the situation and formulate actions in response. Titled #WeNeedAnswers, this online community response was held on Monday 14th August 2024 […]
Agbero 2100 Overview
Agbero 2100 is a strategic intervention within ‘systems design’ to support leaders from the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector across England to sustainably own and/or manage community assets. Over recent years, Ubele has been iteratively designing the Agbero 2100 infrastructure drawing on research, community consultation, and Baseline Assessments conducted with participating organisations. In […]
A Place to Call Home 2.0. Benefits and value of owning cultural and community assets
Our new research report titled “A Place to Call Home 2.0” was published by The Ubele Initiative in 2023 and revisits our 2015 study by exploring the benefits and value of owning cultural and community assets within Black and racially minoritised communities. This research would not have been made possible if not for the funding support […]
Reflections on the Black Systemic Safety Fund: Candice James BEM
Reflections on the Black Systemic Safety Fund: A Series Over the course of 18 months, The Ubele Initiative and Reos Partners collaborated with Impact on Urban Health (IoUH) to explore funding, power, and participatory grantmaking with Black communities in Lambeth and Southwark. Centered on the pressing issue of systemic safety, the Black Systemic Safety Fund […]
Reflections on The Black Systemic Safety Fund: Chris Dusu
Introducing Reflections on the Black Systemic Safety Fund: A Series Over the course of 18 months, The Ubele Initiative and Reos Partners collaborated with Impact on Urban Health (IoUH) to explore funding, power, and participatory grantmaking with Black communities in Lambeth and Southwark. Centered on the pressing issue of systemic safety, the Black Systemic Safety […]
