Our Social Impact Report: Making a difference within challenging times, April 2020 – July 2021
Over the past 18 months, we have supported the Black and Minoritised community led organisations, impacted the most by Covid-19, to become more resilient and sustainable. Along with many other voluntary and community social enterprises, Ubele was part of the local, regional and national recovery efforts working to address some of the issues and concerns […]
Our Strategy 2021-2026: Tókán 10 Years
This important roadmap will help us deliver key priorities and plans in the next five years. We need to continue to aim high over the next five years to make a major contribution within the growing eco-system of organisations led by Black and Minoritised communities, which collectively can help reduce a growing social and economic gap.
Booska Paper – Exposing Structural Racism In The Third Sector
Booska Paper exposes structural racism in the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector and explored the impact of the pandemic on funding attitudes in the UK. The Ubele Initiative took a convening role, leading on this research to amplify the voice of local, regional and national Black and minoritised community leaders in the sector. […]
Navigating Space under lockdown report – Perspectives and Experiences of Young Black and Minoritised Adults
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 […]
Rapid Review Of The Impact Of COVID-19 On Those With Protected Equality Characteristics In London
The Ubele Initiative has been working with the University of Manchester as part of a team commissioned by the Greater London Authority (GLA) to undertake a rapid review of the impact of COVID-19 on those with protected characteristics as defined in the Equality Act 2010. The final report was published by the Greater London Authority (GLA) on […]
National Mapping Of Bame Mental Health Services – Report
In collaboration with BAMEStream, we have launched The National Mapping of Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Mental Health Services in the United Kingdom (UK) report. The conclusion to this report is that anxiety is high against a backdrop of the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on BAME communities, which means the role of BAMEStream in supporting BAME […]
Impact of COVID-19 on BAME community and voluntary organisations
The report is based on two surveys administered between 19 March and 4 April and received 182 responses, of which 137 were Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) led organisations. The findings of the surveys, suggest that “9 out of 10 BAME micro and small organisations is set to close if the crisis continues beyond […]
Evaluation report for Mali enterprising leaders (MEL)
Another Mali Enterprising Leaders key project output that explores sustainable business models and effective succession planning to encourage participation of younger people and implementation of the next generation leadership. The report documents the evaluation of the MEL project through which we worked with 6 BAME community organisations inolved in business enterprise in London and Manchester.
Cultivating Diversity
A Toolkit to Establish BME-led Community Enterprise This is the first BME-led Community Enterprise toolkit. The need for it emerged as a key recommendation of the MEL Programme and from Ubele’s experiences of supporting community businesses and social enterprises. It highlighted an urgent need for BME communities to be offered targeted support, advice, capacity building […]
BAME-led community organisations and community asset ownership. Inspirational stories and recent successes
The experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) led community organisations seeking to acquire and manage assets for organisational and community benefit is not well understood or researched. This case study explores the community asset transfer journeys of three BAME-led community organisations.
A Place to Call Home
This report represents an important first step in revealing the scale of the issues facing many BAME communities and a set of recommendations for central and local government, Locality and African Diaspora community organisations.
Introduction to Ubele
“How can we create the next generation of community based leaders to help build independence and resilience within African-Caribbean communities in England?”
