YELC
Young Emerging Leaders Collective (YELC) The Young Emerging Leaders Collective (YELC) is a growing community for young Black people, people of colour and racialised people, committed to racial and social justice. The collective is a space to exchange ideas, support and care; learn and build capacity and resilience; and work together in anti-racist and anti-oppressive […]
Working on our Power
Working On Our Power recognises the unique gift that trans, non-binary and cis women of colour bring to transformative social change work. This programme is designed to strengthen them in progressive social movements across Europe. We use asterisk () after trans and non-binary in order to include everyone who identifies along the trans spectrum (broadly […]
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 […]
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 […]
Man Dem
Between January and March 2021 CSTC, worked in partnership with The Ubele Initiative to pilot the Man Dem Project (MDP) – a development project for Black men to share their ambitions, challenges and opportunities for personal and professional growth. The pilot was a series of seven weekly online Open Space sessions for Black men to […]
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.
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 […]
Welcomeship
Welcomeship was a new model for entrepreneurship learning for young migrants together with local young people as a tool of inclusion. The project was a collaboration between several expert organisations in the field of entrepreneurship learning, migration and advocacy/lobbying as well as several implementing organisations which directly piloted and implemented the project in their communities. […]
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.