Black Systemic Safety Fund 2024
Learn about how The Ubele Initiative partnered with Reos Partners and Impact on Urban Health to facilitate a unique social labs process that explored participatory grantmaking with Black communities in the UK. Project Overview In seeking to explore funding, power and participatory grantmaking with Black communities, Impact on Urban Health (IoUH) initiated a process that engaged a group of […]
Booska Paper
Booska Paper exposes structural racism in the the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector and explored the impact of the pandemic on funding attitudes in the UK. It highlights the issues that need to be addressed to help us create more just and racially equitable society where all communities can flourish. Booska Paper amplifies […]
CCLORS
CCLORS was £9.5 million funding which will be used to support community organisations in England that are facing financial difficulties caused by COVID-19, with an emphasis on supporting Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic led businesses. Ubele has been working with Power to Change, Locality, and Social Investment Business, in partnership with The National Lottery Community […]
Intangible Benefits: Post-COVID-19 Economic Recovery and Regional Support for Black and Racially Minoritised Social Enterprises
Black and racially minoritised communities werendisproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic not only in relation to health but also economically. In 2020, The Ubele Initiative investigated the impact of COVID-19 on community organisations and social enterprises, and found many were at risk of closure due to the impact of lockdown. In a study carried out […]
A Place to Call Home 2.0
This research would not have been made possible if not for the funding support provided by Power to Change. The opportunity to extend and revisit the journey started in 2015 was timely, given the recent global COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter campaign arising from the death of George Floyd in 2020. To those […]
Social Impact Assessment Report 2022/23
You can now read the 2022/23 Social Impact Assessment Report online, here
Preserving Cultural and Heritage Identities with Journeys
The protection and sustainment of cultural and heritage identities is crucial to the wellbeing of any society. How do we preserve and pass them on? The protection and sustainment of cultural and heritage identities is crucial to the wellbeing of any society. Without question, what we take to be ‘cultural and heritage’ imperatives is socially […]
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. […]
IRETI Empowering women and strengthening socioeconomic integration
This project aimed to highlight and bring together the best practices of working with human trafficking for the common purpose of combating exploitation of women, and to allow victims from human trafficking to have an access to basic services through an online platform.
