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 […]
BME Community Assets: People, Places and Next Generation Leadership – MEL Final Event in London
Mali Enterprising Leaders (MEL) Final Event: BME Community Assets: People, Places and Next Generation Leadership The Ubele Initiative invites you to join us for lunch followed by presentations and a conversation! During the afternoon we will: Share the main areas of learning from the Mali Enterprising Leaders project (London and Manchester) Celebrate […]
First Film night at Wolves Lane Horticultural Centre, 22nd June 2018
View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize We are very happy and still recovering from the big night we had last Friday! Our first film night at Wolves Lane organised by StART in conjunction with The Ubele Initiative was a huge success! More than 50 people from very […]
One year on from the tragic night that Grenfell Tower burned for over 24 hours by Rajaa Bouchab
One year on from the tragic night that Grenfell Tower burned for over 24 hours. Still the community bares pain and holds grief. As the 13th of June 2018 commenced to the 14th of June 2018 our community gathered together to hold a vigil. It was powerful and emotional- seeing those very same […]
Working out for a stronger Europe – Yo!Fest 2018 by Maya Campbell
Heya, I’m Maya! I went to the European Parliament in Strasbourg with the Ubele initiative for Yo!Fest 2018. It was such a great weekend and I felt incredibly privileged to have met such an intelligent group of young people working hard in our own individual areas to contribute positively to society and promote political mobilisation […]
IRETI: Learning about the realities of the women in Palermo, Sicily
I write this with only 2 weeks left of the project left, my days in Sicily slowing counting down to my return home. The aim of the project was to learn about the sex trafficking of Nigerian women that has been happening here in Palermo, and to learn about the realities of the women here, […]
Yo!Fest 2018: Working out for a Stronger Europe
Yo!Fest is the annual youth political festival organised by the European Youth Forum which acts as the youth voice for the European Parliament . This year it was held in Strasbourg on the 1st & 2nd June. The Ubele Initiative took a delegation of 20 young adults aged 18 -30 years from across the UK […]
We’re about to attend Yo!Fest 2018 in Strasbourg!!
Yo!Fest is the annual youth political festival organised by the European Youth Forum which acts as the youth voice for the European Parliament . Yo! Fest 2018, is a groovy combination of politics, debates and workshops with live music and a variety of artistic performances, creating the perfect mix for an enjoyable and meaningful experience. […]
Pandora – End of mobility at the Ubele Initiative by Ceyda Ozkan
Hi! I have been living in London since 13th of May and working at The Ubele Initiative. I came from Turkey (from Ankara) for a project which is called `Pandora: Discovering European Opportunities for Female Entrepreneurship`. I am a social worker and when I was living in Ankara I had been working with Yenimahalle Municipality […]
Wolves Lane Community Market was back with a bang on Bank Holiday Monday, 7th May 2018!
Wolves Lane Community Market was back for the second time, only without all the coats and snow! A number of Wood Green residents, particularly those that have lived here for a certain amount of time will know just how important and overall significant the centre was (and still is) to the local community. From being […]
IRETI Empowering Women – First weeks in Palermo, Sicily by Saffron N Johnson
So far I have been in Palermo, Sicily for just under 2 weeks and the though is still sinking in that I have been blessed enough to be here- truth be told, I visited Palermo at the beginning of March and was captivated by the beauty and authenticity of the city, and went around […]
Commonwealth Youth Forum 2018 – Reflections by Solomon Rose
The Commonwealth Youth Forum presented a tangible alternative future to the doom and gloom that is continually propagated. It exposed me to a generation of young people across the globe that are already doing incredible things. This generation will be more interconnected and interwoven than previous generations. I do not think that the Commonwealth as […]
