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)
Social Impact Assessment Report 2021 – 2022
Discover how The Ubele Initiative is making a real difference in and with communities and organisations in our Social Impact Assessment Report for 2021-2022. As an organisation, we are proud to showcase our achievements and the positive outcomes we’ve delivered for individuals, groups, and the wider civil society. Despite the challenges, we have continued to provide […]
Yvonne Field has been awarded The Churchill Fellowship ‘Activate Grant’ for Intergenerational Leadership
Today The Churchill Fellowship announced the winners of their ‘Activate Grant.’ £590,688 of grants from their Activate Fund will go to 22 Churchill Fellows including our Founder and CEO, Yvonne Field. The Activate Fund aims to increase the impact of Churchill Fellows’ activities across UK society. Click here to read how Yvonne Field will be using […]
Tashi’s ELEVATE Programme Mentoring Experience
By Mrs Tashi Nyame-Jones Mentoring has proven to be an incredible resource for me and as a Black woman. Finding another Black woman, who is further on the professional journey and who looks back to identify others she could support, can be difficult. But I have found a mentor in Dr Peggy Warren, and her commitment […]
Tryphena’s Reflections of the ELEVATE Programme
By Mrs Tryphena Fortune One of the wonderful things about Ubele is the way it innovatedly works to develop women. Their intergenerational approaches were taken to another level when I, as an ordinary woman of the community with a deep interest in learning and developing others, was invited to join Director and CEO, Yvonne Field, […]
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.
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.
European Summer school Evaluation Report
The 2018 ‘European Summer School: Building Resilient Communities’ follows up on the 2016/17 Erasmus KA1 Adult Education programme ‘Creating Resilient Communities through Social Leadership’ (CRCSL) which sought to give community organisations the opportunity to participate in social leadership training programmes.
Evaluation report for Mali enterprising leaders (MEL)
Another Mali Enterprising Leaders key project output that explores sustainable business models and effective succession planning to encourage participation of younger people and implementation of the next generation leadership. The report documents the evaluation of the MEL project through which we worked with 6 BAME community organisations inolved in business enterprise in London and Manchester.
Black to the Future: a Sankofa approach to exchange youth work practice evaluation report
This report sets out the underpinning principles and approaches that is at the heart of the Ubele approach, capturing both the ’process’ as well as the ‘impact’ of the ‘Black to the Future – A Sankofa approach to Exchange Youth Work Practice’ programme on participants, the organizations involved and future directions.
Cultivating Diversity
A Toolkit to Establish BME-led Community Enterprise This is the first BME-led Community Enterprise toolkit. The need for it emerged as a key recommendation of the MEL Programme and from Ubele’s experiences of supporting community businesses and social enterprises. It highlighted an urgent need for BME communities to be offered targeted support, advice, capacity building […]
