Impact of COVID-19 on BAME community and voluntary organisations: A follow up
“BAME led community and voluntary sector organisations need a national supporting infrastructure body, if they are to take advantage of regional and national supporting initiatives”. Ubele undertook a follow up ‘deep dive’ interview and survey process with 31 micro and small Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) led community and voluntary organisations in the UK. […]
End of Year Reflection from Yvonne Field, Founder and CEO of The Ubele Initiative
I felt slightly nervous last Friday as end of year reflections started to arrive in my inbox. I felt I might struggle to write with already so much being said over the past few days about the past 9 months. However, as the news unfolded over the weekend about a new strain of the Coronavirus […]
Navigating Space Under Lockdown: Experienced professional “Baby Boomers” & “Gen-X’s” are working for and alongside “Millennials” to promote their views and voices
Junior Mtonga, Navigating Space Under Lockdown Project Manager As we wind down to the end of this very much unprecedented year – while new “Tier 4” restrictions start for some & others remain under other tiers – I think it is true to say that most people are ready to say goodbye to 2020 & […]
Building a network of BAME led growers pan-London: We launched a new project at Wolves Lane Centre
Rootz into Food Growing (RiFG) aims to challenge and disrupt some of the structural inequalities that exist within the current UK food growing sector through the creation of a network of BAME led growers pan-London who will receive relevant skills development and training opportunities enabling them to grow commercially. RiFG is a […]
We are delighted to be amongst the grantees for the Black Thrive Employment Project!
Ubele is delighted to be amongst the grantees for the Black Thrive Employment Project. The project aims to empower the Domino Clubs members by increasing their awareness of their skills, providing them with training to develop new skills and creating social entrepreneurship opportunities. The project will also use systems mapping as a tool to further […]
Survey: Vaccinations – Questions, Concerns, Queries
At The Ubele Initiative, we want to know your top three concerns and questions about the COVID-19 vaccinations. We want to hear your views as loudly and clearly as possible. This is so we can understand your perspective and hopefully help the relevant bodies respond better to your queries. All the responses will be collated […]
“BAME led community and voluntary sector organisations need a national supporting infrastructure body, if they are to take advantage of regional and national supporting initiatives” says report
Read our first report from April 2020 – 9 OUT OF 10 BAME MICRO AND SMALL ORGANISATIONS SET TO CLOSE IF THE CRISIS CONTINUES BEYOND 3 MONTHS FOLLOWING THE LOCKDOWN The Ubele Initiative undertook a follow up ‘deep dive’ interview and survey process with 31 micro and small Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) led […]
New Partnership with Enrol Yourself
We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with Enrol Yourself, to offer 2 fully-funded bursaries on their programmes for our community. Read the announcement in full The Learning Marathon is a different kind of learning experience. It brings together a group of peers, each with their own learning question. Over 6 months, participants collaborate, pool […]
National Grief Awareness Week 2020 #NGAW20 Official Launch of the BAMEStream Bereavement Support Service
BAMEStream is an alliance of practitioners, therapists, policy specialists, organisations, activists and academia who specialise in the areas of mental health and wellbeing and who’s core purpose during this Covid-19 pandemic is to bring the mental health needs of the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community into the mainstream. BAMEStream emerged as part of our […]
To Work on Our Power by Violeta Ligrayen Yañez
Since 2018, Working on Our Power (WOOP) has been incubated in the Ubele Initiative as a Transformative Leadership training programme for trans*, non-binary and cis women of colour activists throughout Europe. We are currently finalizing our second rounds of programmes and have trained 58 organisers, activists, healers and facilitators from 11 different countries in 2020. […]
Launching Mali Enterprising Leaders (MEL) England, a capacity support and development programme
We are proud to announce the launch of the Mali Enterprising Leaders (MEL) England, a capacity support and development programme focused on the needs of micro and small Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) led voluntary and community organisations, that has been impacted upon negatively by the pandemic. The aim of MEL England is to […]
History of anti-racism by Leonie Mills
The British Youth Council (BYC) reached out to Ubele, as one of their partner organisations, to run a workshop on the history of anti-racism from a youth perspective. This was for a group of young people who were on a leadership programme that were being trained to create their own social action projects. A member […]
