YELC
YELC is a dynamic collective of young Black people, people of colour, and racialised individuals dedicated to racial, social, and environmental justice. We are not just nurturing leadership but cultivating community, campaigns, and care. YELC is currently co-piloting a year-long programme supported by Friends of the Earth and funded by The Blagrave Trust and Zoom […]
Journeys – Empowerment through exploration of cultural heritage
Journeys is our exciting Erasmus+ funded project targeted towards educators, youth workers, and youth leaders to support their learning, development and competencies in cultural heritage. The project was delivered through a comprehensive programme of study visits, non-formal workshops, activities, mapping, sharing of good practice, explorations, research, development of learning materials, piloting and testing of the […]
Manchester Systems Change Leadership
The Manchester Systems Change Leadership project aims to increase the capacity and capability of Black and Minoritised community organisations in Manchester, to engage in and eventually lead systems change initiatives. The project will create spaces for dialogue to explore severe and multiple disadvantages affecting Black and Minoritised community in Manchester. The participants will learn about […]
MEL Europe
This Erasmus+ project offers a series of creative learning opportunities which will further feed into Ubele’s vision of creating a dynamic and expanded cohort of Black and Minoritised social leaders.
Sankofa Intergenerational Learning Hub
The Sankofa Intergenerational Learning Hub was an innovative 17 month Erasmus+ adult learning project. It aimed to establish a creative intergenerational learning space through which 5 different but interconnected learning programmes were offered to younger and older community leaders, change agents and social activists from Black and Minoritised communities.
Ubele Circles
Based on Sankofa principles of seeking knowledge from the past to benefit the futures of generations to come. The Ubele Circles Project is an opportunity for you to explore anti-racist activism in Britain. You will be a part of a group which will come together to learn from an elder social activist and will examine […]
Ubuntu Social Leaders Academy
Ubele’s main aim is to help create sustainable Black and Minoritised communities and assets (older and emerging leaders and community spaces) by creating a nationally connected intergenerational group of skilled and effective social leaders. Ubuntu Social Leaders Academy (USLA) is based on an African leadership philosophy which emphasises the importance of community, collectivism and relationships […]
Black to the Future
Black to the Future is a Sankofa Approach to Youth Work Practices in the African Diaspora Community that is contributing to building a self-sustaining system that encompasses the intergenerational cultural specificities of the African Diaspora in Europe. Through a series of study visits/ work shadowing activities and dialogue sessions, the project acknowledges the development of […]
Elevate
This creative programme acknowledges and celebrates the history, culture and diverse lived experience of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Women, encouraging them to reflect, explore, grow through connecting and building solidarity as women.
European Summer School
Our project – European Summer School: Towards Resilient Communities – provided training in community leadership and capacity building to small, mainly Black and Minoritised organisations. The 6 training courses provided new frameworks and skills to create social inclusion and active citizenship in order to increase the employability and competitiveness of our most disadvantaged groups, including […]
The Sankofa Intergenerational Learning Hub: Writings on a Journey
The Sankofa Project sought to extend and further develop on the lessons learnt and to scaleup the offer to BME social leaders through creative and innovative adult learning approaches. This compilation of ‘writings’ – in the form of reflective ‘blogs’ – comprises reflections through the eyes of participants on the course. (February 2020)
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 […]
