YELC
Young Emerging Leaders Collective (YELC) The Young Emerging Leaders Collective (YELC) is a growing community for young Black people, people of colour and racialised people, committed to racial and social justice. The collective is a space to exchange ideas, support and care; learn and build capacity and resilience; and work together in anti-racist and anti-oppressive […]
Youth Presence in the UK Manual Trades Industry
We have reached out to organisations working with young people to support our latest national research programme funded by Youth Futures Foundation. The research aimed to analyse the needs, future training and employment opportunities within the manual trades sector with a focus on young people aged 16- to 24-year-olds. It aims to better understand young […]
Majonzi Fund
In collaboration with Patrick Vernon OBE, we launched Majonzi Fund to support culturally appropriate mental health services and memoria for those who have lost loved ones due to Covid-19.
Man Dem
Between January and March 2021 CSTC, worked in partnership with The Ubele Initiative to pilot the Man Dem Project (MDP) – a development project for Black men to share their ambitions, challenges and opportunities for personal and professional growth. The pilot was a series of seven weekly online Open Space sessions for Black men to […]
MEL England
Mali Enterprising Leaders (MEL) England Programme is a capacity support and development programme targeted to the needs of micro and small Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic led voluntary and community organisations who have been impacted on negatively by the pandemic. Mali is from Swahili which means ‘of Value’ or ‘Precious’. The programme’s name, Mali Enterprising […]
Navigating Space Under Lockdown
Given the relative invisibility of young adults in national discussions and policy approaches relating to COVID-19, The Ubele Initiative has partnered with University College London’s Bartlett Development Planning Unit and FOAM20, to bring you Navigating Space Under Lockdown (NSUL), a collaborative, mixed methods research project, documenting the perspectives and experiences of Black and racially minoritised […]
Pathways to Economic Opportunities
Structural barriers in the UK have created profound racial inequalities that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. They have placed incredible strain on people and families’ economic mobility. To help address this in London, The London Community Foundation (LCF), supported by JPMorgan Chase, is committing £2 million over 3 years to invest in organisations […]
Seasoned UK Black Queens – SBQ Feature
Over the past 6 months, I’ve had the pleasure of leading on a project with the working title of Black Women in Action; a stunning visual and biographical piece of work commissioned by The Ubele Initiative. As part of the project, I was asked to find some of the UK’s most inspirational (and often uncelebrated) […]
The Black and Minoritised Communities Enterprise Development Programme
Support from the BMCEDP enables organisations to grow financial resilience and impact by providing a mixture of grant and learning support to help get enterprise ideas off the ground. In 2021, The Ubele Initiative has joined the Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) as the Black and Minoritised Communities sector partner. The EDP is led by a […]
The Phoenix Way
The Phoenix Way Children & Youth Round 3 Our latest £2.2 million funding round is NOW OPEN dedicated to non-profit organisations working with Black and racially minoritised young people at risk of violence. The round of the Children and Youth grant offers individual project grants ranging from £50,000 to £75,000.
Ubele Circles
Based on Sankofa principles of seeking knowledge from the past to benefit the futures of generations to come. The Ubele Circles Project is an opportunity for you to explore anti-racist activism in Britain. You will be a part of a group which will come together to learn from an elder social activist and will examine […]
Booska Paper
Booska Paper exposes structural racism in the the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector and explored the impact of the pandemic on funding attitudes in the UK. It highlights the issues that need to be addressed to help us create more just and racially equitable society where all communities can flourish. Booska Paper amplifies […]
