Churchill Travel Fellowships: broadening horizons and to gaining new ideas
The ‘Communities that Work’ travel fellowships were part of a three-year partnership between the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and the Rank Foundation. 58 travel fellowships were awarded under the theme. A hastily completed application form led to a robust interview process and an offer of an opportunity of a lifetime for me in 2012. Across 2013-14 […]
Forward Thinking – Ayo Wallace reflects on our Second Young Emerging Leaders Event
In light of the recent murders of our brothers and sisters in the USA and the continued violence on the streets of UK and within mainland Europe in response to Brexit Backlash, we need to find real solutions to our struggles. How do we and respond to our needs with real purpose and intention? How […]
Five Years Since the Death of Mark Duggan: Where are we now? George Amponsah’s ‘The Hard Stop’ explores
“We reject pedestals, queenhood, and walking ten paces behind. To be recognized as human, levelly human, is enough.” The Combahee River Collective Statement Last week I found myself at the BFI Southbank watching the preview of George Amponsah’s The Hard Stop, a documentary following the lives of Kurtis and Marcus, two close friends of Mark […]
Ubele Meets Our Young Emerging Leaders
By Zahra Dalilah The Baton Passing Begins Creaking along the wooden floors in the corridors of the Cockpit Yard on a quiet Tuesday evening earlier this month, no one was quite prepared for the bursting excitement that met them when arriving at the door to step into The Ubele Initiative’s ‘Young Emerging Leaders’ evening’. After six […]
Social Leadership Programme: Stronger Communities Through Transformation Leadership
This report was commissioned as part of the Awards for All funded programme that Ubele Initiative was successful in securing in 2014/15. The focus of this particular project was to transform and strengthen communities through developing the capacity and competence of ‘community leaders’. The project sought to recruit 20 volunteers, to be trained as ‘facilitators […]
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.
