Being a young woman in the tech industry, Shwetal Shah
View fullsize Shwetal has been involved in Ubele’s various programmes for over a year now. It is great to observe how this amazing young woman is growing. Recently, Shwetal was nominated for the WISE Awards (WISE Technology Award category). The WISE Awards is a unique annual event, a special opportunity to recognise inspiring organisations […]
We’re looking to recruit young leaders (18 – 30 year olds) from BAME communities for our Young Emerging Social Leaders programme
The Ubele Initiative is looking to recruit young leaders (18 – 30 year olds) from BAME communities for our Young Emerging Social Leaders programme. This programme will provide a safe space for young leaders to explore their role in society as changemakers and how they can make a deep and lasting impact in […]
Exploring mental health and mental wellbeing in Tobago
View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize 16 community activists were brought together by The Lily Foundation for human development in Tobago to take part in a four-day process of exploring mental health and mental wellbeing […]
Power to Change to help Wolves Lane Community Food Hub and Market
Recently, we secured £20,000 grant plus support to develop a regular community market and to formalise a consortium structure. We aim to progress two key areas of development which will enable us to go beyond mainly operating separately as individual businesses, and maximise the benefit of working at the site together and engaging with the […]
J Hus pledges to our Wolves Lane, Wood Green’s Mini-Eden crowdfunding campaign
View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize In celebration of the success of our Crowdfunding campaign, we held an intimate festive gathering Tuesday 13th November 2018 at the Wolves Lane Garden and Horticultural Centre. During this event, we were joined by JHUS, a well-known London rapper who generously pledged to our […]
Join our team! We’re looking for Administration Intern and Social Media Intern
Administration Intern We are looking for an Administration Intern to help with administrative support, the role will be to carry out general administrative tasks and to provide support to our team. What you will be doing: · Handling e-mails and telephone calls in a polite and professional manner · Using basic computer programs, such as […]
Join us for Reconnect and Reflect events in London and Liverpool!
Building intersectional, intergenerational solidarity and knowledge: WOOP in Berlin by Nadia Nadesan
This past October Working on Our Power, a transformational leadership programme, marked a huge milestone by hosting it’s very first retreat in Berlin! 24 women, trans and non binary people of colour from across the EU gathered for two and half exciting days, to build intersectional, intergenerational solidarity and knowledge. Because so many […]
One-week long WELCOMESHIP Training in Solna, Sweden
Wow what an amazing journey! During the Welcomeship six days training in Solna, Sweden, we were taken on a complete journey of identifying personal passions, learning systems and methods to bring those passions into organisations to create real change in our communities and finally to create and manage organisations that will enable us […]
Kuala Lumpur as a Resilient City by Yvonne Field
Good things come to those who wait…or so my mother used tell me when I was impatiently waiting for something to happen….. Two years after starting the Common Purpose, Commonwealth Senior Leaders Programme, I travelled to Kuala Lumpur (KL) in Malaysia. Significant work commitments in 2016 and 2017 meant that […]
Mayor of London announced his backing of our Wolves Lane solar crowdfunding project!
Photo credit to Amanda Stockley Back Wolves Lane fundraising campaign The former Council plant nursery in Wood Green, now run by community organisations, inlcuding The Ubele Initiative, has just received a great promise from Sadiq Khan. City Hall has pledged £7500 towards our current fund-raising campaign. Under the title ‘Wolves Lane, Wood Green’s […]
Young Men Speak Out: London Kick-off
We just hosted our partners from the Netherlands, Stichting Interlock and Hirda Amsterdam, for a kick-off meeting. Young Men Speak Out is an Erasmus+ project that aims to encourage young men and boys to raise the topic of FGM in their families and to provide boys with the understanding and skills to challenge the myth […]
