Lloyd Leon Community Centre
Lloyd Leon Community Centre (LLCC), formerly the Brixton Dominoes Club, is a home for The Brixton Domino Club and Brixton Soup Kitchen. We have been supporting LLCC to help it become an exciting, vibrant and creative community-based facility serving the local community. The need to design a new more sustainable model for Black and Minoritised […]
The Black and Minoritised Communities Enterprise Development Programme
Support from the BMCEDP enables organisations to grow financial resilience and impact by providing a mixture of grant and learning support to help get enterprise ideas off the ground. In 2021, The Ubele Initiative has joined the Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) as the Black and Minoritised Communities sector partner. The EDP is led by a […]
Wolves Lane Centre
Wolves Lane Centre is a thriving space in North London for sustainable growing, education, social enterprise and community engagement. Ubele, along with OrganicLea, are legal partners and ‘stewards’ of the 3-acre site contributing to its development. The former plant nursery has commercial glasshouses, a rare palm house with tropical plants, cactus garden, rainforest area, professional […]
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 […]
Eat Wood Green
“Eat Wood Green” is a community food growing and education space being installed in the heart of the high street in Haringey. The creation of a new community led growing space at Wood Green Library, will provide opportunities for local children, families and visitors to gain green skills and engage with the healing power of […]
Flexible Finance
What is the Flexible Finance Fund? The Flexible Finance Fund is a partnership between Social Investment Business, The Ubele Initiative, and Create Equity. It offers £4m in funding and support to 15-25 Black and Racially Minoritised charities and social enterprises in England, helping them grow, acquire assets, and enhance resilience. The fund combines a flexible […]
Gida Housing Co-operative
GIDA Housing Co-operative has been set up in direct response to the poor quality of private rented housing experienced by Black and Minoritised communities in Tottenham and across London, both in terms of affordability and lack of influence over management and maintenance of their homes. We see the current opportunity for at least 50 community […]
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. […]
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 […]
Processes for Black Led Systems Change, Accelerating Equitable Outcomes Report
Processes for Black Led Systems Change, Accelerating Equitable Outcomes Report – June 2024 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 community leaders in a participatory process focused on the shared challenge of safety (lack of) for Black […]
Social Impact Assessment Report 2022/23
You can now read the 2022/23 Social Impact Assessment Report online, here
